This 3 page paper looks at a case supplied by the student and identifies the main points, such as the value of patents and the requirements for further commercial developments to take place.
Name of Research Paper File: TS14_TE3dtech.rtf
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opportunities, by looking at how adaptable technology can be the student can see how there are also criteria that need to be met to transform ideas into commercial reality. There
needs to be the demand for a product, a gap in the market and a projection of long term, profits. However, even developing a concept can be very profitable,
and if licing out the idea to other uses can also relieve much of the development cost and stress. This is what Ely Sachs, Mike Cima and John Preston, the
owners of the three dimensional printing process patent found out. The need for prototype development is very pertinent in industry and there
was a gap in the investment casting industry due to the existing difficulties. There are many problems associated with the way that a company may choose to create the prototypes,
plastic models are not durable and may distort, other solutions for foundries have problems such as the incompatibility between prototyping an casting technology. MIT has developed a new three dimension
printing system that can over come many of these problems, In a meeting between Yehorem Uziel, owner of Soligen and Ely Sachs, Mike Cima and John Preston of
MIT, Yehoram has a presentation that shows the MIT people how the there dimensional printing development can be produced to create a metal process using binder and powder. Soligen, founded
in 1992, is already in the uses a Direct Shell Production Casting based on three dimensional printing technology. In an environment where
there is an increased need to shorten the development cycle to allow research and development stages to move to commercial production more quickly. However, usually increased speed leads to increased