Rapid Prototyping

State of the Industry
1996 Worldwide Progress Report

Terry Wohlers

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Market Analysis
  • Revenues
  • Unit sales
  • Market leaders
  • Other revenues
• Service Bureau Business
• Sales Forecasts
• The Future of Service Bureaus
• Other Industry Trends
  • Injection mold tooling
  • Keltool
  • Investment casting
• Decentralization and Distributed Processing
• Office Machines for Concept Modeling
• Shifting Dynamics in the CAD Market
  • New generation of technology
• RP System Manufacturers
  • 3D Systems
  • BPM Technology
  • Cubital
  • DTM
  • Helisys
  • Sanders Prototype
  • Soligen
  • Stratasys
• Foreign Developments
  • Europe
  • Japan
• Final Comments
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright and Trademarks
• Charts and Graphs
  • Total RP Market for 1995
  • RP Product Sales for 1995
  • 1995 "Services" Market Segment
  • 1995 Service Bureau Market
  • 1995 "Secondary" Market
  • 1996 Market Forecast
  • 1997 Market Forecast
  • Rapid Prototyping Market Worldwide Revenue Estimates
  • Systems Sold From Each Region in 1995
  • Total Systems Sold (1988-1995) From Each Region
  • RP System Units Sold By US Manufacturers in 1995
  • 1995 Unit Sales By System Manufacturer
  • Unit Sales (1988-1995) By System Manufacturer
  • Rapid Prototyping Market Worldwide Unit Sales Estimates
  • RP Unit Sales Estimates: 1988-1995