Net Shape

Some articles on net shape, net, shape:

Near Net Shape
... Near net shape is an industrial manufacturing technique ... that the initial production of the item is very close to the final (net) shape, reducing the need for surface finishing ...
Processes - Net-shape and Near-net-shape Forging
... See also Near-net-shape This process is also known as precision forging ... It was developed to minimize cost and waste associated with post-forging operations ...

Famous quotes containing the words shape and/or net:

    “Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night ... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.”
    —Donald Davidson (b. 1917)