Micro-factories

Järvenpää, Eeva; Heikkilä, Riku; Siltala, Niko; Prusi, Timo; Tuokko, Reijo

doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-31149-6.00023-2

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“…During the last 20 years, various bench-top/desktop machines and miniature manufacturing systems for micro-manufacturing have been developed and introduced to industry. 6,17,37 The development still attracts significant interest from researchers, and the industry involved has started commercialising the machine designs already, for example, that for micro-machining, micro-EDM, micro-embossing and microinjection moulding. Conventional facilities for manufacturing miniature/micro-products may not be compatible, in sizes, to the products to be made in miniature/micro-manufacturing.…”

Section: Overview Of Micro-manufacturing Rtdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated, multidisciplinary approaches for micro-manufacturing research, and new opportunities and challenges to micro-manufacturing

Qin

2018

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N:

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Increased demands on micro-products and miniaturised systems/devices have been a main driver to the rapid growth of the interest in research in micro-and nano-manufacturing. Currently, micro-manufacturing research is bridging 'nanomanufacturing' and 'macro-manufacturing' and hence, helping to transform nanotechnology into real-world and affordable products, for which it is developing multi-length scale and multi-materials manufacturing capabilities. It is also playing more roles in helping transforming traditional industry and products to more competitive ones. Nevertheless, besides being shifted from 'process focus' to 'market/product' driven research and technological developments addressing production capability, product quality, pilot production lines and sustainability, there is clearly a need for micromanufacturing research to adopt integrated, multidisciplinary approaches to address development-related issues concurrently, in order to shorten the development cycles for product realisation. It is believed that to transfer laboratory processes to industrial applications within much shorter timescales, the associated issues should be addressed with collaborations among different, relevant disciplines. European Union-funded integrated projects have demonstrated such efforts. Product development-centred approaches brought in expertise and resources in product design, material, analysis, testing, tools, machines, automation and manufacturing system integration as well as in life-cycle engineering to address the development needs. At the same time, due to ever updated interests in new products and enabling manufacturing technologies with a view to meeting increased demands from, for example, healthcare, on quality of life, for wealth creation, social engagement and sustainable development, there are new challenges to micro-and nano-manufacturing research, which also suggest tremendous opportunities.

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Section: Overview Of Micro-manufacturing Rtdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated, multidisciplinary approaches for micro-manufacturing research, and new opportunities and challenges to micro-manufacturing

Qin

2018

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N:

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A review on the use of microslit for various applications and its fabrication

Majumder,

Patowari

2024

J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng.

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Proportional control of a parallel robogami delta mechanism with embedded 2D printed angle sensor feedback

Türkmen,

Kalafat

2024

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C:

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Robogami structures are employed for many purposes, including miniature parallel manipulators. Parallel manipulators require accurate joint position feedback, underlining the open problem in robogami structures for providing sophisticated feedback with 2D, fully embeddable, down-scalable, flexible sensors. Existing studies include only on-off control applications, excluding any parallel mechanism implementations and continuous proportional control signals. We implement silver inkjet printed angle sensors for the first time into a robogami structure and use this class of sensors for control. For the first time, a parallel manipulator is controlled with a 2D sensor, and printed sensors are tested for continuous control. Performances are analyzed with set-point and tracking control tasks using a paper Delta mechanism, compared with on-off control and encoder feedback control cases for better evaluation. A detailed comparison with the existing studies both for robogami parallel mechanisms and other sensor-embedded flexible hinges is provided. Encoder-like control performances are achieved in a wide range of the joint space and down to ~1 mm. RMS task space accuracy is recorded. Sources and potential improvements for the less accurate regions are stated. We conclude that printed sensors are promising for parallel mechanisms and continuous signal control applications.

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Micro-factories

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Integrated, multidisciplinary approaches for micro-manufacturing research, and new opportunities and challenges to micro-manufacturing

Integrated, multidisciplinary approaches for micro-manufacturing research, and new opportunities and challenges to micro-manufacturing

A review on the use of microslit for various applications and its fabrication

Proportional control of a parallel robogami delta mechanism with embedded 2D printed angle sensor feedback

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