Review, issues and gap in micro-forming development
Authors: Akhtar Razul Razali
Abstract
Lots of researches have been initiated and conducted worldwide covering micro-forming field and showing that micro-forming is on promising way towards its application in industrial production [1, 2, 3]. Moreover, metal forming offers some attractive characteristics that are superior to those of other processes, for example, machining and chemical etching, considering such features as high production-rates, better material integrity, less waste, lower manufacturing costs, etc. Therefore, micro-forming could be a better option in the mass-manufacture of micro-products at reduced cost, provided if proper manufacturing facility is developed. Although at this time it becomes obvious that there were some basic knowledge on micro-forming and practically some application may seen visible in prototype stage [1, 2, 3, 4], still an extra effort and contribution should be taken and made in order to realize and bring micro-forming technology to the industries. This paper presents the issues related in micro-manufacturing and micro-forming specifically. Although the micro-forming processes have received vast development, nevertheless, in terms of the material handling itself, this has been left far behind. Therefore, in this paper, the gap is highlighted and hopes in future effort is made to fill the gap.
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Dear author,
My name is K. Popov - co-chair for this session.
Thank you very much for your contribution to IPROMS2008 and very welcome to "Micro and Nano Manufacturing" Session.
I am involved in design and manufacturing of micro parts and think that the gap you mentioned is vital to be “filled” somehow. Micro-handling is still a grey area, especially when you have to combine more than two processes for production a part.
Dr. Popov
Co-chair of the session
i'm a novice in this field, but i want to know more about micro machining. i'm trying to do a paper on heat affected zone in micro-edm. since i cannot do actual work on that, due to constrains of availability of machines, and my relative inexperience, i'd like some one to help me. i couldn't find a topic dealing with the same, so i'mposting it here.. please help
hi,
sorry for the late reply. i've never been online eversince the last review/comments received and the conference offically closed.
there is a lot publication about micro-machining. but i have no idea on micro-edm. basically what we have here in our university is laser forming analysis. we have no expertise in micro-edm at this moment.
i would suggest you to go for Finite elemnt analysis study first to get a view what will happen during the process and what is the material bevaiour that time. with this is mind, maybe you can start doing some research on the material's behaviour.
i'm very sorry i couldnt help you alot with this.
thanks again for being on the conference.
Dear author,
Thank you very much for your contribution to IPROMS2008 and very welcome to "Production Automation and Control" Session.
My name is Xuedong Zhao who is a co-chair for this session.
I like the idea about "reduced consumption of both resources and energy via downsizing of production processes". You know, the price of oil is rised to more than $140. This world realy need to find some ways to save more resources and energy. :-)
I used to been engaged design a control system for small size punch machine, but that could not make that small um holes. Your work is great!
As you said, micro-handling development is still left far behind the others. I aggree with you about this. Here is a very interesting video about small-handling, not micro-handing, on youtube. that is did by the famous robot its name is Da Vinci.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Bjs99A0k0&eurl=http://www.roboticfan.com/article/html/660.shtml
Wish you like it.
Xuedong
Co-chair of the PAC session