Re: SLS introduced?

From: David Bourell (dbourell@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 22 1997 - 19:23:24 EEST


Ralph Milone, Corometrics Medical System wrote:

>I have a very simple question I cannot seem to find or get an answer to
>When was SLS introduced? First units sold?

According to "Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in
Manufacturing", (Kluwer 1997), the DTM start-up was 1987 (it may not have
had this name initially), the first beta machine shipment was in 1992, with
service bureaus in operation from 1990 on.

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