Rapid Prototyping Technologies

SLA Rapid Prototyping Process Makes Lost Wax Casting More Efficient

Investment Casting is often the most practical and cost effective method of creating steel components that utilize the SLA Rapid Prototyping process. The lost wax casting process will yield a net or near net shape that can meet the design needs of end users of castings. The drawback however, is that the capital cost of building permanent tooling to replicate the patterns in wax on an ongoing basis can be challenging due to costs. Costs increase when the engineer is attempting to verify that the end product will work as predicted. Often times, a tool to create a 20 pound investment casting can approach nearly $10,000. The most effective solution to keep costs down is Rapid Prototyping.

Stereolithography Apparatus, or more commonly known as SLA, is a commercially Rapid Prototyping process which is still widely used today to provide better accuracy and finish to a surface than the other rapid prototyping technologies on the market.

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Develop Products Faster Using Proven Rapid Prototyping Technologies

Manufacturing technologies have advanced geometrically over the past twenty years. And rapid prototyping techniques have grown even faster. In all most every process that is used to make components, a complimentary process has been developed to make prototypes and short production runs.

Aluminum die casting has been the process of choice for the majority of high volume applications for decades. Volumes need to exceed 50,000 pieces per year. So what if you have a new product that you want to launch with 5,000 units and it involves several aluminum castings per product?

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