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A Web-based Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing System for Rapid Product Development

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Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing

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A web-based rapid prototyping and manufacturing (RP&M) system offers a collaborative production environment among users and RP&M providers to implement the remote service and manufacturing for rapid prototyping, to enhance the availability of RP&M facilities, and to improve the capability of rapid product development for various small and medium sized enterprises. This chapter first provides a comprehensive review of recent research on developing web-based rapid prototyping and manufacturing systems. In order to meet the increasing requirements of rapid product development, an integrated manufacturing system based on RP&M is proposed. The workflow and overall architecture of a web-based RP&M system are described in detail. Furthermore, the key technologies for developing the Webbased RP&M system, which involve deploying the running platform, determining the system model, choosing a server-side language, constructing development platform as well as designing the database and developing application, are also discussed. Finally, a case study is given to demonstrate the application of the web-based RP&M system.

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    Andrew Y.C. Nee

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Lan, H. (2009). A Web-based Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing System for Rapid Product Development. In: Wang, L., Nee, A. (eds) Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-287-0_10

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