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Modularity in small machine tools

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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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Research funded by the German Research Foundation (priority program 1476 "Small machine tools for small work pieces).

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  1. Institute of Production Engineering, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043, Hamburg, Germany

    Jens Peter Wulfsberg & Silka Grimske

  2. Institute of Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units, University of Stuttgart, Seidenstr. 36, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany

    Alexander Verl, Karl-Heinz Wurst, Christoph Batke & Tobias Heinze

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Wulfsberg, J.P., Verl, A., Wurst, KH. et al. Modularity in small machine tools. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 7, 483–490 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-013-0464-4

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