3/18/09

Upcoming DDM events!

Though Melotte’s activities on DDM are known in the market we believe that the paradigm shift only can be reached by bringing the message to more interested DDM believers. Therefore we would like to take the opportunity to list a few of the upcoming DDM events.

(1), Rapid Prototyping Event 2009: Design & Prototyping" on April the 2nd 2009 at the Industrial Design Center in Kortrijk (Belgium). Melotte’s CEO will present some practical cases in DDM in combination with Optical Scanning, Micro Tomography and advanced component finishing technologies. See practical information at
www.protolab.be

(2), RIMF’s Advisory Board is pleased to inform you that Melotte’s abstract, Direct Digital Manufacturing@Melotte, Scan based implant modeling technologies in a digital vertically integrated manufacturing environment, has been reviewed favorably and selected by the advisors to be presented at the Rapid Implant Manufacturing Forum (RIMF) held alongside SME’s Rapid Conference & Tradeshow on May 13, 2009 in Schaumburg, Illinois USA. Melotte’s CEO will present the developments on Direct Digital Implant Manufacturing. Info at
www.sme.org/rapid

(3) DDM technology transfer sessions @ Melotte, almost 80 Melotte customers have participated at DDM sessions. During this interactive session Melotte presents his DDM offer and highlights on the importance of DDM in order to reduce Global Warming. Next to the overall business outline we concentrate on transferring our knowledge on DDM Product development to the audience. So far we did concentrate on our loyal customers. As from June we’re opening the sessions for individual DDM believers. These sessions will be organized in cooperation with the Flanders Innovation Council. As we’re in varies markets we will try to create homogeneous groups. Sessions will concentrate on Medical, Dental & Macro facial Surgery , Tooling Solutions, Hybrid & lightweight Solutions, Art & Jeweler and one session dedicated to optical scanning and reverse engineering. Feel free to join these sessions and let us know your interest by sending a mail to
info@melotte.be

Best in Class Award: at the end of each session we will choose the “Best in Class”! The winner will have the possibility to have a DDM design product produced by Melotte DDM team!

3/10/09

Aluminum Rapid Manufacturing combined with Optical Scanning proves the DDM concept

Market Release: Although many customers are taking measures to overcome the current recession we’re still very active in developing front-end prototyping solutions. Customers are looking for savings and they decide to switch prototyping from conventional CAD/CAM oriented Milling programs towards DDM. We’re currently running substantial numbers of Aluminum DDM prototyping projects. In many cases the DDM part price does not exceed the programming cost for conventional prototyping. Some time ago we’ve decided to add optical scanning to our portfolio. Today we’re proud to announce the full integration of DDM with optical scanning (compare & dimensional checks) and Microtomography for mechanical property analysis. paris hilton


The picture above shows a picture of our optical scanning while interpreting a precise Rapid manufactured OEM Aluminum part. Part tolerances, after robot enhanced 5-axis milling, of +/- 5µm are optically scanned and compared in an automated way. Compared to the conventional prototyping costs have been reduced with about 26% and the production lead-time has dropped by over 80%.