At Cardiff University's Manufacturing Engineering Centre (Cardiff, Wales, UK), the program 4M Network of Excellence addresses multimaterial micro manufacturing. It's straightforward to batch-fabricate microcomponents and microsystems in silicon. The main objective of 4M is to develop Micro and Nano Technology (MNT) for batchmanufacture of microcomponents and devices in a variety of materials with user-friendly production equipment, processes, and manufacturing platforms for incorporation into the factory of the future. The network of excellence aims to integrate fragmented R&D capacity in non-silicon microtechnologies into a European Centre of Excellence.
For more information go to: http:wunv.4m.cf.ac.uk
The project New Roughness Inspection Probe Mounted on Industrial Robot for Automated Machining is underway at the University of Hartford, Engineering Applications Center, (West Hartford, CT researchers worked with Pratt and Whitney to develop a new miniaturized inspection device. This instrument can be used to monitor the surface quality of titanium blades. A noncontact instrument with probe-type construction, it can be inserted into difficult-to-access areas in a manufacturing cell. It is also designed to be mounted on the end-effector of an industrial robot and will be used in real time.
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