With increased competition from the global economy, manufacturers face the challenge of delivering new customized products more quickly than before to meet customer demands. A delayed development or delivery can mean business failure.

Rapid Manufacturing (RM) is helping to shorten the design and production cycle, and promise to revolutionize many traditional manufacturing procedures.

Amongst the first involved in the use of Rapid Manufacturing one could find the medical technology and biomedicine sectors. Due to the specific solutions enabled by the RM technology in opposition with the limitations inherent in more conventional manufacturing systems they are one of the earliest adopters.

Companies related to these sectors have quickly identified and invested on these new technologies enabling them with competitive advantages and ready to use solutions despite the risk involved in any new technology change.

The results have been spectacular in many cases and adoption of RM spreads so quickly that one may incur on the risk to be left apart.

Hence, this second year edition of the RMForum will be devoted exclusively to present and discuss the application scope of RM into medical and biomedical technologies helping working professionals and industrialists to appreciate the significance of RM and to relate these technologies to their work.

Leading experts from a range of industries will be present, taking the opportunity to share with us their extensive knowledge and practical experiences of rapid manufacturing techniques.

Fully understanding that the breadth and importance of these applications spreads much beyond of what can be explained in one day; we believe that the "2nd one day seminar on Rapid Manufacturing" will be an extraordinary opportunity to expose the state-of-the-art, discuss on future trends, explore novel applications, implementation processes, business opportunities and competitive advantages.

 Date and location
 June 29th 2009
 9h to 18:15h
 Institut Químic de Sarrià
 Vía Augusta, 390 - 08017 Barcelona