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Authors:
Steffen Scholz
Matthias Plasch
Hannes Limbeck
Tobias Iseringhausen
Markus Dickerhof
Andreas Schmidt
Tobias Müller
Christian Woegerer
Keywords: Additive manufacturing; microsystems; flexible scalable system
Abstract:
Digital manufacturing technologies are gaining more and more importance as key enabling technologies in future manufacturing, in particular when flexible and scalable production of small and medium lot sizes of customized parts is demanded. This paper describes a new approach to design manufacturing of complex three-dimensional components building on a combination of digital manufacturing technologies such as laminated objects manufacturing, laser, and e-printing technologies. The manufacturing platform is based on a highly flexible and modular approach, which enables manufacturing of different small-sized batches without tool or mask making within a short time. A number of manufacturing modules can be combined by defined hardware and software interfaces. The control system is designed to integrate all processes as well as the base platform with features far beyond ordinary Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems
Pages: 140 to 141
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: October 11, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4065
ISBN: 978-1-61208-437-4
Location: St. Julians, Malta
Dates: from October 11, 2015 to October 16, 2015