TY - JOUR
T1 - Design considerations for developing a new, ultra-high precision feeder for micro-sheet-forming applications
AU - Razali, Akhtar
AU - Qin, Yi
AU - Harrison, Colin
AU - Brockett, Andrew
N1 - Also presented at 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR08), London, 9-11 Sep 2008
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - A recent review of micro-forming research and technological development suggested that the trend of the development is focused more on the manufacturing processes, machines and tooling, with efforts on the precision material handling being insufficient. Most of the developed machines were based on stand-alone concepts that do not support efficient integration to make them fully automated and integrated. Material feeding, in most cases, was not of sufficient precision and reliability for high throughput manufacturing applications. Precision feeding is necessary to ensure that micro-parts can be produced with sufficient accuracy, especially in multi-stage forming, while high-speed feeding is a necessity to meet production-rate requirements. Therefore, the design of a new high-precision and high-speed feeder for micro-forming is proposed.
AB - A recent review of micro-forming research and technological development suggested that the trend of the development is focused more on the manufacturing processes, machines and tooling, with efforts on the precision material handling being insufficient. Most of the developed machines were based on stand-alone concepts that do not support efficient integration to make them fully automated and integrated. Material feeding, in most cases, was not of sufficient precision and reliability for high throughput manufacturing applications. Precision feeding is necessary to ensure that micro-parts can be produced with sufficient accuracy, especially in multi-stage forming, while high-speed feeding is a necessity to meet production-rate requirements. Therefore, the design of a new high-precision and high-speed feeder for micro-forming is proposed.
KW - high precision feeder processees
KW - micro-forming research
KW - manufacturing applications
U2 - 10.1504/IJNM.2009.027050
DO - 10.1504/IJNM.2009.027050
M3 - Article
SN - 1746-9392
VL - 3
SP - 40
EP - 54
JO - International Journal of Nanomanufacturing
JF - International Journal of Nanomanufacturing
IS - 1-2
ER -