Evolvable Micro Production Systems: Specific needs and differences to macro

Hofmann, Andreas; Bretthauer, Georg; Siltala, Niko; Tuokko, Reijo

doi:10.1109/isam.2011.5942361

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“…The concept of Evolvable Production Systems (EPS) [66] [67] stands for multi-product lines with reusable equipment for easy and fast changes of the physical modules, according to production demands. Following the mini/micro-factory paradigm and the EPS concept, authors in [68] highlight the closer link between the product design, the process sequences, manufacturing processes, and module used, presenting the Evolvable Micro Production System (EMPS) concept when considering the strict specificities of micro-product manufacturing. Some representative platforms are presented as well, as the TUT Microfactory [69] and the microFLEX [70].…”

Section: Evolvable and Modular Micro-/nano-assembly Systems And Control Strategiesmentioning

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Cyber-Physical Systems for Micro-/Nano-assembly Operations: a Survey

Alberola

Fassi

2021

Curr Robot Rep

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Purpose of Review Latest requirements of the global market force manufacturing systems to a change for a new production paradigm (Industry 4.0). Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) appear as a solution to be deployed in different manufacturing fields, especially those with high added value and technological complexity, high product variants, and short time to market. In this sense, this paper aims at reviewing the introduction level of CPS technologies in micro/nano-manufacturing and how these technologies could cope with these challenging manufacturing requirements. Recent Findings The introduction of CPS is still in its infancy on many industrial applications, but it actually demonstrates its potential to support future manufacturing paradigm. However, only few research works in micro/nano-manufacturing considered CPS frameworks, since the concept barely appeared a decade ago. Summary Some contributions have revealed the potential of CPS technologies to improve manufacturing performance which may be scaled to the micro/nano-manufacturing. IoT-based frameworks with VR/AR technologies allow distributed and collaborative systems, or agent-based architectures with advance algorithm implementations that improve the flexibility and performance of micro-/nano-assembly operations. Future research of CPS in micro-/nano-assembly operations should be followed by more studies of its technical deployment showing its implications under other perspectives, i.e. sustainable, economic, and social point of views, to take full advance of all its features.

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Section: Evolvable and Modular Micro-/nano-assembly Systems And Control Strategiesmentioning

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Cyber-Physical Systems for Micro-/Nano-assembly Operations: a Survey

Alberola

Fassi

2021

Curr Robot Rep

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“…Along with efficient support systems, the processes should offer sustainable solutions for reduced energy and resource consumption along with economical manufacturing capabilities and occupational safety. 193 For this to be achieved in practice, the following needs to be considered: 165,167,194 • Facility upgradation for improved energy cost savings.…”

Section: Micro-factories-a Path To Sustainable Micromachiningmentioning

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Micro-machining: An overview (Part II)

Jain

Patel

Ramkumar

et al. 2021

Journal of Micromanufacturing

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This article on ‘Micro-machining: An Overview (Part II)’ is in continuation to ‘Micro-machining: An Overview (Part I)’ published in this journal ( Journal of Micromanufacturing). It consists of four parts, namely, electrochemical micro-texturing, electrochemical spark micro-machining, molecular dynamics simulation and sustainability issues of micro-machining processes. Electrochemical micro-texturing (ECMTex) deals with various techniques developed for micro-texturing on different types of workpiece-surfaces, namely, flat, curved and free-form surfaces. Here, basically two categories of techniques have been reviewed, namely, with mask and without mask. It also deals with ‘single point tool micro-texturing’ which turns out to be a single-step technique requiring minimum time, but the accuracy and repeatability obtained after micro-texturing need to be critically analysed. For mass production, one needs to go for sinking kind of ECMTex processes. Electrochemical spark micro-machining (ECSMM) is an interesting hybrid (ECM+EDM) process which can be applied for electrically conducting as well as electrically non-conducting materials. However, the work reported in this article deals only with the electrically non-conducting materials for which this process was initially developed. This process has a lot of potential for theoretical work to be done. In this article, two theories of sparking/discharging have been briefly mentioned: single bubble discharging/sparking and single surface discharging. It also dicusses its applications for different types of electrically non-conducting materials. Molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) of micro-/nano-machining processes is very important, but it is very cumbersome to understand at atomic/molecular scale. In these processes, the material behaviour at micro-/nano-level machining is completely different as compared to bulk-machining (macro-machining) processes. Hence, some fundamentals of MDS have been discussed. It just gives the idea of available techniques, softwares and models for different types of processes. However, there is the need of further research work to be done for clearly understanding the MDS of micro-/nano-machining. In the end, the sustainability of micro-machining issues have been discussed, mainly based on the energy consumption per unit mass of production. It is concluded that the advanced micro-manufacturing processes are highly energy-intensive processes, and they need further studies to be done for making them more suitable from sustainability point of view. At the end of each section, some potential areas of research for enhancing the accuracy and repeatability, and minimising the production time of each process have been discussed.

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“…In addition, one big challenge in microproduction is mass customization, i.e. the manufacturing of a large variety of microproducts in small quantities that are highly adapted to special customer needs [3]. These requirements call for a highly flexible microproduction system that offers all necessary production and assembly processes while being able to connect and schedule these processes in a very flexible way in short time.…”

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“…In state-of-the-art microproduction solutions (see [1], [3]), two different approaches can be distinguished. One approach comprises desktop factories, i.e.…”

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Multiagent-based flexible automation of microproduction systems including mobile transport robots

Voos

Wangmanaopituk

2013

2013 IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies &Amp; Factory Automation (ETFA)

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In microproduction, i.e. in the production and assembly of micro-scale components and products, fully automated systems hardly exist so far. Besides the requirements of handling small parts with extreme precision, small batch sizes of highly customized products are among the main challenges. Therefore, economic microproduction requires very flexible production systems with a high level of automation. This contribution proposes a new concept of such a system that provides two main innovations. First, the proposed concept integrates stationary production machines and mobile transport robots in order to configure rapidly changing production processes in real-time. Besides this distributed flexible system structure, also the overall automation system consisting of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and the shop floor control is designed in a distributed form as a multiagent system. This distributed automation system is especially suited to automate flexible production scheduling and resource allocation processes but also integrates the multi-robot transport system.

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Evolvable Micro Production Systems: Specific needs and differences to macro

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Cyber-Physical Systems for Micro-/Nano-assembly Operations: a Survey

Cyber-Physical Systems for Micro-/Nano-assembly Operations: a Survey

Micro-machining: An overview (Part II)

Multiagent-based flexible automation of microproduction systems including mobile transport robots

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