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Precision Assembly Technologies for Mini and Micro Products

Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.5 Third International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS'2006), 19-21 February 2006, Bad Hofgastein, Austria

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Svetan Ratchev

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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  • Most current research on precision assembly technologies for micro and mini products
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 198)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Micro Handling and Feeding Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Design of a Capillary Gripper for a Submillimetric Application

      • Pierre Lambert, Frank Seigneur, Sandra Koelemeijer, Jacques Jacot
      Pages 3-10

    3. Multi-Axes Micro Gripper for the Handling and Alignment of Flexible Micro Parts

      • Christian Brecher, Christian Peschke, Martin Freundt, Sven Lange
      Pages 11-19

    4. Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Flexible System Based on Thermal Glue for in Air and in SEM Microassembly

      • Cédric Clévy, Arnaud Hubert, Stephan Fahlbusch, Nicolas Chaillet, Johann Michler
      Pages 21-31

    5. Design and Experimental Evaluation of an Electrostatic Micro-Gripping System

      • Defeng Lang, Marcel Tichem
      Pages 33-42

    6. A Generic Approach for a Micro Parts Feeding System

      • M. Paris, C. Perrard, P. Lutz
      Pages 43-52

    7. Pneumatic Contactless Feeder for Microassembly

      • Michele Turitto, Yves-André Chapius, Svetan Ratchev
      Pages 53-62

  3. Robotics and Robot Applications for Precision Assembly

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. “Parvus” a Micro-Parallel-Scara Robot for Desktop Assembly Lines

      • Arne Burisch, Jan Wrege, Sven Soetebier, Annika Raatz, Jürgen Hesselbach, Rolf Slatter
      Pages 65-74

    3. Methods for Comparing Servo Grippers for Mini and Micro Assembly Applications

      • Ilpo Karjalainen, Reijo Tuokko
      Pages 75-82

    4. Compliant Parallel Robots

      • Annika Raatz, Jan Wrege, Arne Burisch, Jürgen Hesselbach
      Pages 83-92

    5. Test Environment for High-Performance Precision Assembly - Development and Preliminary Tests

      • Timo Prusi, Riku Heikkilä, Jani Uusitalo, Reijo Tuokko
      Pages 93-100

    6. Sensor Guided Micro Assembly by Using Laser-Scanning Technology

      • Sven Rathmann, Jan Wrege, Kerstin Schöttler, Annika Raatz, Jürgen Hesselbach
      Pages 101-108

    7. High Speed and Low Weight Micro Actuators for High Precision Assembly Applications

      • Reinhard Degen, Rolf Slatter
      Pages 109-117

  4. Design and Planning for Microassembly

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Automated Assembly Planning Based on Skeleton Modelling Strategy

      • H. Bley, M. Bossmann
      Pages 121-131

    3. Morphological Classification of Hybrid Microsystems Assembly

      • Iwan Kurniawan, Marcel Tichem, Marian Bartek
      Pages 133-147

    4. First Steps in Integrating Micro-Assembly Features into Industrially used DFA Software

      • Timo Salmi, Juhani Lempiäinen
      Pages 149-154

    5. Tolerance Budgeting in a Novel Coarse-Fine Strategy for Micro-Assembly

      • Vincent Henneken, Marcel Tichem
      Pages 155-166
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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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  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Svetan Ratchev

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