Objective The development of new products is an iterative process involving design and visualisation, building prototypes, testing and evaluation. This is usually quite expensive and time consuming, especially if. unconventional or complex geometries are required. Worldwide there is a strong need for a Rapid Prototyping (RP) technique, which is able to produce prototypes, which have the technical specifications (integrity, accuracy and shape), appearance (colour, texture) and feel of the desired product. In addition, there is a strong need for Rapid Manufacturing (RM), of (complex) one-offs, e.g. teeth, and implants and small series, e.g. mock-ups for surgical practising, high-end tooling and technical parts.The RAMA3DP consortium aims to develop a Three Dimensional Printing (3DP) technique for making very precise engineering parts. Current rapid prototyping machines produce models of which the varying dimensions, warpage and ovality are unacceptably bad: only 4 out of 20 parts are assessed to have identical quality. As compared to other RP techniques, 3DP is clearly the only RP technique with the potential to evolve into a wide-applicable rapid manufacturing technique.The overall objective of the project is to develop a3DP technique via new mechanical, material and software methods in order to resolve the mechanical strength, reproducibility, accuracy and colour drawbacks of current RP methods, resulting in acceptable functional end parts and to 'prove' the applicability of the developed 3 DP prototyping/manufacturing technique by developing specific product applications/demonstrators. The consortium aims to introduce the to-be-developed 3DP prototyping/manufacturing technique in the medical modelling and industrial design industry, to increase the productivity compared to present state-of-the-art RP/RM technique by at least 50% and to decrease the rapid prototyping/manufacturing costs by at least 50 %. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolorsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem softwarenatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometryengineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturingmedical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplants Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2002-SME-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme COOPERATIVE - Coordinator PTS SOFTWARE BV EU contribution No data Address Meerweg 7 BUSSUM Netherlands See on map Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CP - CENTRUM FUR PROTOTYPENBAU GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Strassburg Allee 15 ERKELENZ See on map Total cost No data INTELLIGENT LASER APPLICATIONS GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Karl-Heinz-Beckurts Strasse 13 JULICH See on map Total cost No data INTELLIGENT LASER APPLICATIONS GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data HUNTSMAN ADVANCED MATERIALS (UK) LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Ickleton Road, Duxford CAMBRIDGE See on map Total cost No data NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO EU contribution No data Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Sackville Street P.O. Box 88 MANCHESTER See on map Total cost No data ARDEJE SARL France EU contribution No data Address Rue Georges Auric N°4 Lotissement Mozart 2 VALENCE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NEBATO MODULE & APPARATENBOUW B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Dillenburgstraat 9 7093 EINDHOVEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NTS MECHATRONICS.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Dillenburgstraat 9 7093 EINDHOVEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
