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The development of China rapid prototyping industry
China Rapid prototyping industry started from the 1980 s, some Hong Kong and Taiwanese began to invest in the coastal areas of Guangdong, utilizing cheaper labor and resources for processing trade in mainland, meanwhile they also brought mould and rapid prototyping technologies to China mainland, at first production technologies mostly held by Hong Kong and Taiwan, with market competition increasingly fierce and more attention to industrial design, Chinese rapid prototyping industry began to develop rapidly.
The new developed product quality and actual effect need to validate by prototypes. In this case rapid prototyping industry gradually separate from industrial design, and become booming as a relatively independent industry. Many professional prototype company emerging (like Star prototype, etc), large-scale enterprises and industrial design companies have also set up their own prototype department. Base on incomplete estimates there are more than 200,000 practitioners work for rapid prototype manufacturing, mainly distributed in Yangtze river delta, the pearl river delta and Bohai rim industries developed areas. More than 1000 enterprises in Shenzhen and 200 enterprises in Shanghai. Rapid prototyping industry was realized as sunrise industry of the future, which has its own advantages in the development state, the main reason more and more company begun to emphasize R&D and increased budget, the second reason is related to the domestic social and economic development. Thirdly the industry has low barriers to entry, don't need spend a big amount money on plant and equipment which meet the production requirements.
Currently rapid prototype industry also have to face many challenges, most of company are smaller scale, vulgar management cause inefficient and huge waste of manpower, resources... Roland, the vice President of Rison prototype said: "a big plank enterprises must have good management mode: from customer and order management, to production and project management, refinement to every parts, each cutter path, documentary personnel can real-time follow up production, ERP management software has been wildly use nowadays, and plays an important role in driving development of small and medium enterprises".
In order to promote the developing of rapid prototype, China has set up more 50 "Prototypes City" in Dongguan, Yuyao, Kunshan, Ninghai, the hometown of China (potow) car's plate, Huanghua, Changsha, Chengdu, Beilun, Dalian, all of them had play a positive role in longitudinal and extending the industrial chain longitudinal internal comprehensive management to reduce costs, promote cluster competition and cooperation to facilitate the formation of specialized market and production base. Cluster mode of production is not in order to attract more factories to get in, ultimate goal is for the sake of platform sharing and increase production levels. The development of rapid prototype has produced a lot of professional talents and promote product design move to precise direction and market segment, and support machine and tools industry developed rapidly.