Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Rapid manufacturing is a technique for creating solid objects by the sequential delivery of energy and/or material to specified points in space to produce that solid. Current practice is to control the manufacturing process by computer using a mathematical model created with the aid of a computer. Rapid manufacturing provides a large advantage in speed and cost overhead compared to alternative metal manufacturing techniques such as powder metallurgy manufacturing or die casting. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.