Among the first in Europe CRP Technology is involved since 1996 in
Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) with SLS technology and
Windform® composite materials CRP patent-pending and branded.
Direct Digital Manufacturing refers to
Rapid Manufacturing and namely to the production of finished and functional parts through additive techniques of manufacturing (
Layer Manufacturing).
With Direct Digital Manufacturing CRP Technology supports the customers offering:
- Finished and functional parts for sporting vehicles, road vehicles and concept models
- Mock-up for assembling, fitting, functionality and performance tests (for example on static and dynamic dyno and on track)
- Finished and functional parts for limited productions
- Mock-up for windtunnel
- Functional prototypes
- In-scale reproduction for physic archive
Moreover CRP Technology sells SLS material
Windform® and the
R&D department always studies new innovative materials and processes.
The main properties of Direct Digital Manufacturing are:
- Total freeform and no limits in designing (Design For Functionality instead of Design for Manufacturing)
- Production of pieces with undercuts and complex features that might be difficult to realize with traditional production systems
- Reduction in product and project realization timing and reduction in cost production
CRP Technology has been in the field of
Rapid Prototyping a pioneer, starting in 1996 it began to develop the SLS technology as well as
new polymeric with high structural properties (the family of
Windform® materials). The
department of Rapid Prototyping of CRP creates a finished model in short time and it is suitable for
functional tests,
fluid-aerodynamic,
fitting and
assembling.
For example it is possible to produce a windtunnel F1 1:1 mock-up equipped with helmet and rear-view mirrors.
