NEWS 13 August 2020

Mikroniek June: Design Principles

This edition of Mikroniek aims to honour the memory of Wim van der Hoek with articles about designs in his vein and reflections that build on his ideas. Wim van der...

This edition of Mikroniek aims to honour the memory of Wim van der Hoek with articles about designs in his vein and reflections that build on his ideas. Wim van der Hoek was the first to emphasise the dynamics of mechanisms as a source of positional errors in high-speed production machinery. He developed a simple design tool by means of which the positional error – due to the dynamics cams and the backlash – could be estimated in the drawing office. Click here for a first impression.

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References

Order of frictions and stiffnesses…

For lumped systems consisting of different frictions and stiffnesses, there has been confusion in literature about hysteresis curves and virtual play for many decades.

Make it clean

In mid-April, the second edition of the Manufacturing Technology Conference and the fifth edition of the Clean Event were held together, for the first time, at the Koningshof in Veldhoven (NL).

Bringing particles to light

Particle contamination monitoring and cleanliness control are fundamental to micromanufacturing processes across diverse industries to achieve cost-effective production of high-quality and reliable microscale devices and components.