4M Summer School, sponsored by SARIX and ESPRIT

Design and manufacture of multi-material micro mechanical systems, 30th July - 10th August 2007

This course is situated within the context of emerging micro/nano technologies. Micromechanical components play an increasing role in micro systems. The use of metals, polymers and ceramics for miniature components requires product development methods as well as manufacturing technologies. Product dimension will range from micrometre to millimetre. The attendees will get insights on the complete product development from requirements and technology possibilities to manufacturing and testing, in an industrial perspective . Indeed it is now well known that micro/nanotechnology is not only a matter of downscaling applications and methods.

Topics range from design methods to manufacturing processes, product solution principles and supporting technologies such as metrology or handling and assembly. In addition to lectures, the attendees will complete a design project running the whole length of the course. The project starts the first day with some functional and process chain design. It will then evolve to tooling, testing of "mass" production schemes and functional testing of the physical implementation. Demonstrators will be produced, measured and tested.

The morning lectures cover the necessary knowledge needed (and more) to act in the product development of the project in the afternoons. The course spans 2 weeks, social activities are planned, for example during the weekend.

The maximum number of attendees is about 24. The course will be hosted by the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management (IPL), at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). It is situated in Lyngby, around 15 milometers from Copenhagen, Denmark.

List of lecture topics:
Tooling technologies
_____Micro cutting,
_____Micro EDM,
_____Laser ablation,
_____Electrochemical deposition processes ...

Replication techniques adapted to micro scale
_____Micro injection moulding,
_____Micro metal forming...

Micro products functionalities
_____Microfluidic devices,
_____Micro products overview,
_____Micro optical devices

Methodology of design
_____Delta Design engineering role -playing experience,
_____Life cycle assessment,
_____Toolbox for design...

Metrology

Micro Handling and assembly
_____Laser welding,
_____Joining...

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