Modularity in small machine tools |
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Authors: | Jens Peter Wulfsberg Alexander Verl Karl-Heinz Wurst Silka Grimske Christoph Batke Tobias Heinze |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Production Engineering, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043, Hamburg, Germany 2. Institute of Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units, University of Stuttgart, Seidenstr. 36, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany
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Abstract: | Up to now, machine tools in micro production hardly feature modularity and hence offer only few opportunities to reconfigure or individualize a manufacturing process. This article gives a summary of concepts, how modularity in small micro machine tools can be designed and implemented. A size-adaptable machine frame is the basis for various possible process layouts. Adapters, a feed module with replaceable drive and kinematics, equipped with appropriate interfaces as well as a supply concept are introduced to allow further configuration. The combination of those concepts characterizes a small modular machine tool system. Technical solutions and fully functional prototypes will be shown and discussed in the following paper. |
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