Tele-Manufacturing: rapid prototyping on the Internet

Discusses how a research and development project called the Tele-Manufacturing Facility is creating an automated rapid prototyping capability on the Internet. We are doing the necessary research and development to make the capability viable for engineers and scientists to use over long distances. Our view of the engineering concept design-production process is given. This model clearly shows the iterative nature of the design process.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>