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A hybrid and adaptive tool-path generation approach of rapid prototyping and manufacturing for biomedical models

Process planning is critical to ensure production efficiency and quality of biomedical products during layer-based rapid manufacturing. The innovation of this work is that the overall optimisation of conflicting objectives between production efficiency and build quality has been achieved. A €0.4M FP7 project, CASES (PIRSES-GA-2011-294931), with academic partners including Cranfield University, UK, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, and Zhejiang University, China, was awarded to further improve process planning in terms of energy efficiency, and to exploit the work for biomedical product manufacturing in industry (Delcam: Managing director, Hugh Humphreys, hh@delcam.com).