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Laboratories Kresge Rapid Manufacturing LaboratoryThe soon-to-be-completed Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory will complete the student availability to the entire product development cycle by adding a manufacturing component. The facility will enable students to rapidly fabricate small pilot batches of new products using state-of-the-art technology. The laboratory will include basic and advanced fabrication equipment such as CNC machine tools, welders, and injection molding machines, as well as a Cobra Series robot from Adept. An additional technology included in the Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory will be vacuum casting. This technology provides the means for producing pilot batches of plastic products, whose models will be produced within the New Product Incubator in the Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering Laboratory, in only minutes. The laboratory will also house two test cells. The first, an electronic test cell, will give students the opportunity to utilize oscilloscopes, multimeters, and signal generators to develop and evaluate electronic circuitry of new products. The second test cell will be utilized for materials testing and will include a wide variety of hand and power tools for dissection of products to evaluate their durability, functionality, and robustness. In addition, two Instron machines will be provided to further evaluate the material characteristics of the manufactured parts. |
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