Rapid prototyping
Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly…
Distributed manufacturing
Distributed manufacturing also known as distributed production, cloud producing and local manufacturing is a form of decentralized manufacturing practiced by…
Digital modeling and fabrication
Digital modeling and fabrication is a design and production process that combines 3D modeling or computing-aided design (CAD) with additive…
Contour crafting
Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences…
Construction 3D printing
Construction 3D Printing (c3Dp) or 3D Construction Printing (3DCP) refers to various technologies that use 3D printing as a core…
Laser engineered net shaping
Laser powder forming, also known by the proprietary name (laser engineered net shaping) is an additive manufacturing technology developed for…
Electron-beam freeform fabrication
Electron-beam freeform fabrication (EBF3) is an additive manufacturing process that builds near-net-shape parts requiring less raw material and finish machining…
Sheet lamination manufacturing
Laminated object manufacturing (LOM) is a rapid prototyping system developed by Helisys Inc. (Cubic Technologies is now the successor organization…
Selective laser sintering
Selective laser sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technique that uses a laser as the power source to sinter…
Selective laser melting
Selective laser melting (SLM) or direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is a rapid prototyping, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM)…