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Developing and Prototyping the Army's Mobile Parts Hospital

The Army's Mobile Parts Hospital relies on rapid technologies and lean ideas. One goal is to use a single all-purpose metal powder to produce an array of parts in the field, eliminating the need to order, inventory, and carry a variety of materials and stock shapes. A CAD/CAM machining library is a virtual storehouse of instructions

Mobile 3D Viewer Provides Wireless CAD

Pocket Cortona from ParallelGraphics is a wireless 3D viewer that offers a completely mobile 3D solution, and supports automation interfacing so that developers can write 3D applications on pocket platforms

Solid Modeling Saves Design Iterations

Blackmer, a Dover Corp company, recently made the transition from 2D to 3D solid-modeling software and chose SolidWorks for its ease-of-use, affordability, and ongoing product innovations. Blackmer uses it to design mobile transfer and industrial equipment, as well as its liquefied and compressed-gas equipment

Give Maintenance Techs Wireless Devices To Cut Downtime

By addressing maintenance's mobility challenges and diverse information needs, current information and wireless technology creates numerous opportunities to streamline existing processes and improve overall maintenance and supply-chain effectiveness

Antitrust Settlement Clears 3D Systems to Buy DTM

The rapid-prototyping process sold by 3D and DTM is used to speed the manufacture of everything from mobile telephones to medical devices, and is an improvement over conventional prototyping methods

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