RAS Nodes

Various laser systems for ablation, soldering, welding, marking, adjustment, sintering, stereolithography, LOM.

The award-winning Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) forms part of Cardiff University, which dates back to 1883 and is one of Britain's major civic universities. The 80-strong ISO 9001:2000 accredited Centre has an international reputation for its leading-edge research in advanced manufacturing and information technology spanning a broad spectrum of subjects.

The activity at Cranfield University will involve the integration of activities in two areas: Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering. The Nanotechnology Group at Cranfield University, specialises in fusing micro-engineering and nanotechnology with the industrial application and development of functional materials (especially ferroelectric) to produce novel devices.

The Chair of Manufacturing Technology (head: Prof. Manfred Geiger; about 80 employees) is one of the six departments of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. The chair's key activities comprise metal forming, laser technology and development of computational tools in the area of these technologies. The research topics in the field of micro manufacturing cover micro metal forming processes like bulk metal forming, blanking or deep drawing, micro laser manufacturing processes applied to welding, soldering or adjustment of micro components as well as metrology of micro structures.In order to spread the results of research and to qualify engineers students of the university are trained by lectures, practical training and writing of diploma and doctoral theses.