High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Use of external facilitator to choose optimal rapid tooling method –
A case study
A. Håkansson & J. Lundberg
Luleå University of Technology
ABSTRACT: Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the use of an external expert,
called facilitator in this study, can assist a company with little previous knowledge within the field of Rapid
Prototyping, called RP in this study, first to determine if they would benefit from RP and if so, find which
components that are suitable for RP, and second to find the optimum RP method and RP service bureau.
Design/methodology/approach – The study was made as action research, where the researcher ...