David Prawel

Dr. David Prawel has enjoyed a 35+ year career as an entrepreneur, consultant and educator in 3D technology and digital product development. He helped build 6 startup companies, with one successful IPO and one in the works. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Buffalo, and a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Biomedical Engineering. He is currently on the Research Faculty in Mechanical Engineering at CSU, where he researches biomaterials. He also recently founded a community-access center for 3D printing and personal fabrication (<a href=dqdqhttp://www.idea2product.netdqdq target=dqdq_blankdqdq>www.idea2product.net</a>).

June 30 - Day 3: The Impact of Material Choices on the Core Business of Manufacturing

Material choices also help determine ideal manufacturing processes and sequences. In a bigger picture, they can also spell success or failure of mission-critical processes like lean, quality validation and certification. We will take a detailed look at how material choices can affect your...

June 30, 2016 - 2:00pm EDT

June 29 - Day 2: How Materials' Characteristics Drive the Best Material Choices

Material selection decisions can be made much more effectively with some knowledge of the materials, behavior and properties. We will present key decision factors that should guide your material selection proces and discuss the various relevant properties of the materials, while comparing and...

June 29, 2016 - 2:00pm EDT

June 28 - Day 1: Which materials? Which processes? Sorting Through the Choices

We will take a comprehensive look at the wide range of popular metals, plastics and polymeric materials that are used in additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing), CNC machining and injection molding. Your choice of the best material for a particular project is often a very complex decision, and...

June 28, 2016 - 2:00pm EDT

Materials Matter More than Anything in Product Development

June 22, 2016

Design Hardware & Software

David Prawel

Materials Really Matter! In fact, in my opinion it's safe to say that materials matter more than anything in product development. Humans have been making things for thousands of years and have developed countless great methods of producing high-quality products. 3D printing has been added to this...

The Slow Ramp to PLM's Value

October 07, 2011

Design Hardware & Software

David Prawel

We've been hearing about PLM for a long time now -- probably at least a decade. But I'm only recently really starting to hear about people really benefiting from PLM. Does it really take that long for something that sounds so good to work its way into real business value? Yes. I figure it this way...

A New Modeler From Spatial?

July 19, 2011

Design Hardware & Software

David Prawel

Spatial's recent announcement of its Convergence Geometric Modeler may not be a major product release, but it's still big news. For anyone who uses the hundreds of products sold by the hundreds of companies who use Spatial's component software (e.g. ACIS), for anyone who needs seamless...