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Star Rapid’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing.
Overmolding for Vacuum Casting Prototypes
Polyurethane vacuum casting is a great way to make quick-turnaround rapid prototypes. Solid master patterns are used to cast soft silicone rubber molds, and these molds yield up to twenty copies of the original with excellent surface finishes and only a...
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5 Reasons to Use CNC for Rapid Prototyping
CNC machining for rapid prototyping allows you to leverage the many advantages of computerized equipment to produce fast-turnaround prototypes, engineering models and high-quality end-use parts in the least possible time. Here are the top five reasons to...
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Reference Chart for Rapid Prototyping and Low Volume Manufacturing
If you’re trying to bring a new product idea to market, there may be more than one manufacturing method that will suit your needs. Each of these processes used at Star Rapid has advantages for lead time, precision, start-up costs, volume and more. ...
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Star Rapid Is Embracing Industry 4.0
Star Rapid is fully committed to implementing Industry 4.0 practices to create a lean and intelligent manufacturing solution for our customers.Industry 4.0 refers to a system of connected digital technologies. The core principle is that the entire...
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4 Benefits of Vacuum Casting for Rapid Prototypes
Vacuum casting is a fast and effective method for making high-quality rapid prototypes and end-use parts in low volumes. The process uses pourable casting resins and reusable silicone molds to make perfect copies of master patterns.Such copies are useful...
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5 Design Inspirations for Medical Wearables
Medical wearables combine a lot of small but advanced technologies into little packages that collect health data, offer warnings and even administer treatment.But for these products to be successful – to be readily adopted by users and made part of their...
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What Makes a Great Paint Job
Most people think of paint in a very general sense, meaning any colored liquid film that we put on the surface of something to decorate and protect it. While basically true, that definition doesn’t do justice to the sophisticated chemistry underlying...
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4 Design Tips to Improve Plastic Injection Molding
We love to help our customers improve their product designs by offering insights gleaned from actual case studies. Recently, we worked with one customer to help them build two multi-cavity molds for a product that will be used in a high temperature...
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