Prototipagem rápida na fabricação de modelos aplicados no processo de fundição em areia verde

Abstract

Casting is one of the manufacturing processes that most benefits from technological advances within an organization's production processes. In Brazil, there are approximately 1.2 million companies in the foundry sector, making it the tenth largest producer of castings in the world. In an integrated way, casting and rapid prototyping promote a wide range of benefits from conception to final stages of the project, combining prototypes, models and customization in the development and manufacture of the product. This work aims to understand productivity gains in the metal smelting sector, resulting from the use of rapid prototyping technology. Precisely, the application of the process of manufacturing models via rapid prototyping by deposition of material, applied in the making of molds in the casting process in green sand, is analyzed. through rapid prototyping and comparing the manufacturing cost and manufacturing time with the machining process. Keywords: rapid prototyping, customization, casting.