Materials Matter - Selecting the Right Materials for Your Manufacturing Process and Application - Sponsored by Proto Labs

June 28, 2016 to June 30, 2016

Focus on Fundamentals

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... More

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

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Materials Matter - Selecting the Right Materials for Your Manufacturing Process and Application - Sponsored by Proto Labs