Rapid Prototyping Centre

The Rapid Prototyping Centre (RPC) of Nanyang Polytechnic is a specialist Centre that provides educational and development training on core competencies in Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling Technology and Product Development for its project students and the industries.

Our Capabilities 

Product Design, Development and Industrial Design

We have accumulated extensive experience working with Industrial partners in Consumer and Medical product design and development. We are able to provide turnkey product development solutions including product Industrial Design.

Rapid Prototyping & Rapid Manufacturing

Our rapid prototyping facilities include – Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, Fused Deposition Modeling, Direct Metal Laser Sintering and SolidScape. We are able to develop rapid prototype in Polymer and metal material. (Please see details below)

Rapid Tooling & Hybrid Tooling

We have developed and fabricated several rapid tooling inserts for our industrial customer. The rapid tooling inserts are build using the Direct Metal Laser Sintering machine. It can be fabricated in various metal material (Please see detail below)

Vacuum Casting

Vacuum Casting is a process that can be used to create multiple copies of a plastic prototype, with greater durability. We have delivered numerous vacuum casting prototypes to our Industrial customers. Vacuum casting parts can be fabricated in polyurethane, investing casting wax, low melting point alloy and even dual materials.

Appearance and Functional Model

Our teams of experienced and dedicated staff are able to develop and fabricate appearance and functional models. The service offered includes texturing, cosmetics, graphics, transfer lettering and even cubic printing.

Other Services

Rapid Prototyping Centre can be the gateway to other services within NYP. We are able to provide one-stop solution to the industries. We can link our customer to services such as Finite Element Analysis, Mould Flow Analysis, Reverse Engineering and many other services.

Areas Of Specialisation

The centre's core competency are in technological areas such as Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling Technology, Vacuum Casting Technology and, Product Design and Development activities in Consumer, Medical and various others products.

Industry Services 

Rapid Prototyping Centre supports companies in meeting the challenges of product design and development. Services offered includes: customized training programmes, consultation, conceptual design, mechanical design, rapid prototyping, rapid tooling & mould development, collaborative product development and full turnkey solutions.

Our team of experienced and competent professional Lecturers, Development Engineers and Development Technologist in various technological areas are well prepared and dedicated to take on the challenge and needs of the industry.

Our services include:

• Product Design & Development

• Rapid Prototyping & Rapid Manufacturing

• Rapid Tooling & Hybrid Tooling Technology

• Vacuum Casting Technology

• Post Finishing Technology

Product Design, Development, Analysis & Prototyping

• Product Industrial Design

• Mechanical Design

• 3D CAD Solid & Advance Freeform Modeling

• Digital Prototyping

• Finite Element Analysis

• Reverse Engineering

Polymer Rapid Prototyping & Rapid Manufacturing 

• SLS - Duraform Polyamide , Duraform Glass-filled, Duraform Aluminium-Filled

• SLA - Si50(ABS Similar) , Si60(PC Similar) , Amethyst(Investment Cast Resin) , Bluestone(Ceramic Composite Resin) rapid prototype

• FDM ABS prototype

• Functional Prototype

• Appearance model

Metal Rapid Prototyping & Rapid Manufacturing

• Rapid Manufacturing of Metal Prototypes

• Rapid Manufacturing Hybrid Prototypes

• EOS Rapid Tooling Insert with Conformal Cooling

• EOS Rapid Hybrid Tooling insert with Conformal Cooling

Vacuum Casting Technology 

• Polyurethane vacuum casting prototype

• Investment casting wax model prototype

• Low melting alloy vacuum casting prototype

• Multi Component vacuum casting prototype

Post Finishing Technology

• Secondary Finishing

• Texturing

• Cubic Printing

Project Information 

Rapid Prototyping Centre has supported many industrial projects with organizations such as DSO National Laboratories, Philips Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd, Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd, Molex Singapore Pte Ltd, Siemens Medical Instruments, Singapore Technologies Group of Companies such as ST Electronics, CET Technologies Pte Ltd, Flextronics, JMS Singapore Pte Ltd, Lawton & Yeo Design Associates Pte Ltd, HASCO Singapore, Leica Instruments, Creative Technology, Racer Technology, Raynet Technologies, Zugo Technology, Shimano (S) Pte Ltd, TechGroup, Emerson, aNd Studio, Singapore General Hospital and etc.

For more information, please contact: 

Mr. Desmond Tan
Manager
Rapid Prototyping Centre
Tel: 6550-0674
Fax: 6454-9871
Email: Desmond_TAN@nyp.gov.sg