The Society of Manufacturing Engineers Presents:

Rapid Tooling From Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing . . . secondary tooling in action

Featuring:

• Presentations from industry experts -- satisfying your need to know!

• A night of tabletop exhibits including attendee reception -- your chance to meet knowledgeable product representatives.

• Money - saving rapid prototyping techniques -- that you can implement immediately.

• Plant tour -- You'll see rapid prototyping techniques in action!

• . . . and much more!

This extraordinary two day event will only be offered

once this year so mark your calendars for

1. Sand Cast Tooling using LOM

Get a description of application for direct usage of rapid prototyping tooling

David Tolin, President

PML, Inc.

2. Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling Applications for Medical Devices

You'll get valuable information regarding the use of rapid technologies to accomplish the use of rapid technologies to accomplish concurrent engineering for medical regulatory issues when you sit in on the talk. Topics covered include:

• Early Clinical Studies
• Early Bio-Burden Testing
• Early Bio-Compatibility testing

Joseph P. Frantz

Frantz Industries, Inc.

3. Injection Mold Tooling Using 3D Keltool™

Learn how to cut time and cost of permanent plastic injection mold tooling.

• How the process works
• Applications and Benefits
• Potential Time and Cost Savings

Mark Horner

The Technology House

4. Virtual Product Development

You'll learn techniques to help reduce steps and time to rapid tooling.

• The quickest path to rapid tool
• Rethinking concurrent engineering
• Getting the most value from prototyping

Todd Ray

Compression Engineering

5. Making Stereolithography Formblocks for the Hydropress Using Liquid Molding Compounds.

Learn the process of going from a CAD design to a Hydropress part in just 4 man hours.

• Learn 3 different ways of using Stereolithography for making formblocks
• Go from R & D to production right after initial test

Boris C. Fritz

Northrop Grumman Corp.

6. Rapid Tooling Using the Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) Process

You'll discover how injection mold tooling can be produced in 1to 2 weeks.

Greg Krikorian & Keith Krook

Plynetics/Prototype Express

7. Cast Tool

Cast tool can get you significant time reduction to testable product for thermoplastic product development. This talk will show you how to reshuffle your current engineering program to reduce your product development time.

Randy Erickson

Metalcast Engineering

8. High Temperature Epoxy Tooling for Plastic Injection Molding

Discover the benefits of TrueCast epoxy tools with CNC Machined aluminum tools.

• Wider ranges of production application
• Applications of TrueCast epoxy tooling process

Joe Allison

Solid Concepts

9. Casting from Rapid Prototype Patterns

Jeff Smith

Senior Rapid Prototyping Engineer

Precision Castparts Corp.

10. Rapid Integrated Prototyping -- Using the right tools to achieve rapid results

Here a case study that took a medical device from CAD to clinicals in under 3 weeks!

• How parenting speeds the process
• Using the most effective technology
• Concurrent digital modeling, prototyping & tooling

Kelly Hand

Satellite Models

11. CNC Machining -- Rapid Construction of Production Tooling

Is your company ready for production tooling? Learn how to reduce your time to market!

• Identifying when you should go directly to production tooling
• Prerequisites for reducing production tool lead-times
• The Engineering/Tool manufacturing relationship -- What must change
• Tool manufacturing -- What is required today & tomorrow?

Phil West

California Tooling, A California Amplifier Co.

12. RTV Molding

Speaker Invited