Conference Concurrent with EuroMold 2008 Hosted by Wohlers Associates, Inc.

By DE Editors

The 10th annual international conference of Wohlers Associates, entitled Factory of the Future: Manufacturing by Additive Fabrication will coincide with the EuroMold 2008 trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany this year, according to DEMAT GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany) and Wohlers Associates, Inc. (Fort Collins, CO). The conference will take place on Friday, December 5 at EuroMold 2008. The trade fair is December 3-6 at the Exhibition Center Frankfurt.

This year's conference will cover new types of manufacturing organizations, their structures, types of products they offer, and how they manufacture and distribute them. According to conference presenters, there are a growing number of large and medium size organizations using AF to manufacture products, yet more small, start-up companies are the most interesting. Because of AF and the Internet, almost anyone can manufacture products these days.

The CEO of one such small company, Mr. Ed Fries, CEO of FigurePrints (USA), will keynote the event. In less than a year, Fries’ company has grown phenomenally in its production of World of Warcraft custom products, based on the world’s most popular video game.
For more information, visit Wohlers Associates.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.