(Society of Manufacturing Engineers: Dearborn, MI) -- Be sure to mark May 18–20, 2010, on your calendar. That's the date for RAPID, North America's largest annual rapid and additive manufacturing conference and exposition. The event will be held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California.

The event attracts innovative leaders that are advancing manufacturing processes and providing tools to bring products to market faster. The combination of informative technical sessions, workshops, and the industry's premier trade show brings buyers, sellers, and end-users of design, prototyping, tooling, and direct manufacturing technologies together in an environment that facilitates networking and business.

This year's event, held in California for the first time, exposes rapid and 3-D imaging technologies to new users and industries. It offers technical sessions addressing aerospace and defense, entertainment, medical, and sports and recreational equipment applications along with traditional sessions on rapid manufacturing and 3-D imaging.

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