is to say they don’t yet offer the flexibility to realize complex machining configurations and also to combine LMM with other complementary processes in hybrid manufacturing sys- tems and production lines. For these reasons, LMM isn’t yet considered a ‘mature’ process—unlike rival processes such as micro milling. Four researchers—Pavel Penchev, Stefan Dimov, Debajyoti Bhaduri, and Sein L. Soo—at University of Birming- ham’s School of Mechanical Engineer- ing (Birmingham, UK) have published a paper in Volume 28 of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems that offers to bring maturity to LMM processes. The paper, “Generic Integration
Tools for Reconfigurable Laser Mi- cromachining Systems,” presents the development of three generic integra- tion tools for improving the system-level performance of reconfigurable LMM platforms. In particular, the research reports the design and implementation of a modular workpiece holding device, an automated workpiece setup routine and automated strategy for multi- axis LMM machining employing rotary stages.
An experimental validation of their
accuracy, repeatability and reproducibil- ity (ARR) was performed on a repre- sentative state-of-art LMM platform. The results demonstrate the flexibility and operability of the proposed tools to address important system-level issues
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