Abstract: A method for producing an object including at least one autonomous part movably disposed relative to an affixing part includes: providing a mold having at least one cavity configured to produce the at least one autonomous part; filling the at least one cavity with a curable or solidifying molding compound that includes a pulverulent sintering material and a binder; allowing the molding compound to solidify so as to form the at least one autonomous part; removing the at least one autonomous part from the cavity; disposing the at least one autonomous part in or on the affixing part so as to form a preform; and heat treating the preform so as to form the object.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing metallic or ceramic microparts using a three-dimensional body formed by first and second polymer fractions in a two-component injection molding process, wherein one of the polymer fractions comprises an electrically non-conductive polymer and the second an electrically conductive polymer, the polymer fraction used for the first injection molding step has a higher melting point than the polymer fraction used in the second injection molding step and the metal micropart is formed by galvanic deposition of a metal from an electrolyte and the ceramic micropart is formed by electrophoretic deposition of ceramic material from a ceramic suspension or colloid on the electrically conductive polymer fraction surface of a substrate surface of the interim body.