Overview

Customers increasingly expect products that are smaller, have improved functionality and reliability and cost less. Miniaturisation and integration of mechanical, sensing and control functions within confined spaces is becoming an important trend in designing new products in industries such as automotive, biomedical, pharmaceutical and telecommunications. In micromanufacture often manual assembly becomes unfeasible due to the small size of the products. As a result microassembly is becoming a sector of strategic importance in high labour cost areas due to the specific needs of automated fabrication and assembly processes which make outsourcing a less attractive option. It is well recognised that the production of miniaturised products will require radical rethinking and restructuring of the underlying technologies and system engineering approaches in high precision assembly as well as developing unprecedented and unique commercial concepts and infrastructure for delivering new technologies. In precision assembly there is a clear need for modular and highly customisable miniaturised production systems based on plug and produce assembly units with micro and nano accuracy of operation. From the equipment point of view the key emphasis is on developing new solutions for the automatic handling of large volumes of very small parts; development of multi-process microassembly machines using a smaller mechanical base and incorporating a wide variety of specialised product specific processes, capable of meeting the increased demands on process capability, repeatability and traceability.

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Author:   Svetan Ratchev
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2006 ed.
Volume:   198
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.480kg
ISBN:  

9780387312767

ISBN 10:   0387312765
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Micro Handling and Feeding Techniques.- Design of a Capillary Gripper for a Submillimetric Application.- Multi-Axes Micro Gripper for the Handling and Alignment of Flexible Micro Parts.- Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Flexible System Based on Thermal Glue for in Air and in SEM Microassembly.- Design and Experimental Evaluation of an Electrostatic Micro-Gripping System.- A Generic Approach for a Micro Parts Feeding System.- Pneumatic Contactless Feeder for Microassembly.- Robotics and Robot Applications for Precision Assembly.- “Parvus” a Micro-Parallel-Scara Robot for Desktop Assembly Lines.- Methods for Comparing Servo Grippers for Mini and Micro Assembly Applications.- Compliant Parallel Robots.- Test Environment for High-Performance Precision Assembly - Development and Preliminary Tests.- Sensor Guided Micro Assembly by Using Laser-Scanning Technology.- High Speed and Low Weight Micro Actuators for High Precision Assembly Applications.- Design and Planning for Microassembly.- Automated Assembly Planning Based on Skeleton Modelling Strategy.- Morphological Classification of Hybrid Microsystems Assembly.- First Steps in Integrating Micro-Assembly Features into Industrially used DFA Software.- Tolerance Budgeting in a Novel Coarse-Fine Strategy for Micro-Assembly.- The Importance of Concept and Design Visualisation in the Production of an Automated Assembly and Test Machine.- Development of Passive Alignment Techniques for the Assembly of Hybrid Microsystems.- Modular Assembly Systems and Control Applications.- Miniature Reconfigurable Assembly Line for Small Products.- Conception of a Scalable Production for Micro-Mechatronical Products.- Towards an Integrated Assembly Process Decomposition and Modular Equipment Configuration.- Evolvable Skills forAssembly Systems.- Toward the Vision Based Supervision of Microfactories Through Images Mosaicing.- Precision Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Positioning Systems.- Economic Aspects of Microassembly.- What is the Best Way to Increase Efficiency in Precision Assembly?.- Life Cycle and Cost Analysis for Modular Re-Configurable Final Assembly Systems.- Impact of Bad Components on Costs and Productivity in Automatic Assembly.- Microassembly — Solutions and Applications.- The Reliable Application of Average and Highly Viscous Media.- Laser Sealed Packaging for Microsystems.- Modelling and Characterisation of an Ortho-Planar Micro-Valve.- Microhandling and Assembly: The Project Assemic.

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