From: Marshall Burns (Marshall@Ennex.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 18:56:43 EET
Jim,
Thanks for your inquiry. The Conveyed-Adherent process has been renamed
"Offset Fabbing." The article that the abstract you quoted is from is at
http://www.ennex.com/Technology/paper.sht. There are no service bureaus for
this technology yet because I have not yet succeeded in taking the
technology to market. I have been attempting to commercialize it in the form
of an office machine to be called the "Genie Studio Fabber." Besides the
office market, there are also interesting industrial applications, such as
very-large-capacity fabbing, metals, and automated lay-up of composite
prepregs. A working prototype was built and construction of a production
prototype was begun, but mostly I have learned so far how hard it is to
bring a new manufactured product to market.
If you need some RP done, Southern California has some veteran industry
service bureaus, like Scicon, Solid Concepts, 3-D CAM, Rapid Product
Solutions, and Soligen. Also, the closest technology to Offset Fabbing is
LOM, and you can get that from Cubic Technologies in Torrance. For contact
information on these and a dozen more shops in the area, check out Ed
Grenda's definitive directory at
http://home.att.net/~castleisland/sb_ci.htm.
Good luck, welcome to the industry, and Happy New Year!
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
President, Ennex Corporation
Marshall@Ennex.com
Los Angeles, USA, (310) 397-1314
http://www.Ennex.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <tarla@tarla.com>
To: <rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 20:23
Subject: Solid Freeform Fabrication
> Suggestions please: I was doing some research looking for RP service
> bureaus in Southern California or elsewhere that have a Conveyed-Adherent
> process (as described below) based on sheet (paper) or thin plastic base
> material....or secondarily on roll stock which is then cut to length as a
> secondary process. Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you!
>
> Jim Fallgatter
> Tarla Products
>
>
> 33 Automating Sheet-Based Fabrication: The Conveyed-Adherent (TM) Process
> Author Charles L. Thomas, Kenneth J. Hayworth
> Source Solid Freeform Fabrication Proceedings, 1996, pp 281-290
> Abstract A new automated fabrication technology is described which breaks
> the fabrication process into spatially separate layer-formation and
> layer-bonding stages. The technique uses sheet material on a substrate as
> feedstock and cuts cross-section contours into the material before
> conveying the material on the substrate to a stacking station. Advantages
> include (a) speed, (b) versatility in fabrication materials, and (c)
> ability to fabricate hollows, embed or cast secondary materials, and
> selectively enhance or degrade material properties on a regional basis. A
> prototype fabricator has been built which automates all aspects of this
> process except weeding. Applications demonstrated using this machine
> include traditional rapid prototyping and visualization-model creation as
> well as functional machines taking advantage of embedding and
cast-in-place
> techniques.(Auth abstract) [References: 8]
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