be as simple as making a prototype part or as complicated as characterizing and controlling the entire process. As a rule, medical and aerospace products require the greatest amount... for a design engineer to easily determine the proper material for an application, to qualify a component vendor, and finally to have a design engineer understand the PIM process well... the feedstock in-house. The PIM process is schematically represented in Figure 2. The process steps are as follows: I. Raw Material Selecting and Monitoring II. Material Blending III...