Recent progress of photo‐resin for rapid prototyping, “resin for stereolithography”

A main goal for manufacturing systems is to shorten lead‐time for the development of new products. An important challenge is to make sound decisions at early stages of product development where committed costs are low which leads us to obtain a lower total cost. This could mean that incurred costs are higher in the beginning where more work has to be done in terms of learning the market, developing the product and the production system. An important feature is to avoid changes at later stages where the incurred costs are high. The stereolithography using photo curable liquid resin is important for the manufacturing. The technology based on the stereolithography has been widely accepted due to the phenomena of spreading “Information Technology (IT)” and three‐dimensional computer aided design (3D CAD) system. The stereolithography technique has become very popular in the field of automotive, home‐electronics industries. In this paper the photo curable liquid resins for the stereolithography system are reviewed.