Overview
Testing a new design before costly tooling is created can save companies time and money. For many years, the only process available to create injection molded parts for testing and design verification was to “soft tool” using machined aluminium. The cost and typical lead times involved are often expensive and can take many weeks. With the introduction of composite materials like Somos® PerFORM, engineers can now use stereolithography’s quick and accurate technology to rapidly create molds which are capable of producing real injection molded parts that can reduce cost and time in the product development cycle.
Learning Objectives:
- What is Rapid Tooling?
- How can Rapid Tooling save me time and money?
- What materials can be used with a 3D Printed mold
- The sweet spot for using 3D printed molds
Speakers:
Brigitte Jacobs
Application Development Manager, Somos®
Brigitte graduated with a Master of Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and also holds a post-graduate business degree from the KU Leuven. She has held various technical and commercial roles within a variety of global organizations. Last year, she joined the Somos® brand at DSM as an Application Development Manager where she is responsible for developing different applications for Somos® materials. One of them is Rapid Tooling, whereby 3D printed molds made with Somos® PerFORM provide customers with REAL injection molded parts in only three to five days.
Daniel O'Connor
Group Editor, TCT Magazine
Having joined team TCT in 2013 after a fairlyeclectic post-graduation career that encompassed writing about football, policing and reality television, Daniel has become obsessed with the world of additive manufacturing and its surrounding technologies. Always on the lookout for the weird and wonderful applications of 3D printing technology, particularly fond of the digitisation for preservation techniques employed by the likes of the Smithsonian Institute.
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