Abstract (EN):
The aggressive competition that companies,
operating in different industrial sectors, are
nowadays subjected is the result of manufacturing
to a global market where consumers are
continuously demanding more sophisticated new
products with higher quality and shorter life cycles.
These new challenges demand capacities to
internally develop new products using digital
modelling, rapid prototyping, conversion
technologies, rapid manufacturing and others tools
that are already common in industrial sectors such
as aeronautics, transportation, medical and others.
In this communication the authors present how
the adoption of these technologies were
fundamental to rapidly create new products in a
traditional manufacturing pewter company that still
has an intensive human labour and traditional way
for product development, and how these new
methodologies were fundamental to quickly
introduce, with success, these products in the
international market.
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific
No. of pages:
6
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