The first morning is even not finished and I can tell you, absents miss a lot of interesting clues in Microproduction. The spectrum is quite wide in equipment for microproduction and this morning there were mainly to conferences targeted to Eurotec. In this post, the first one.
About 60 people are reunited in the beautiful venue of Villars-sur-Olon under the MAM flag. Again Micronarc and Mancef have organized a high level event for people interested in today’s and tomorrow’s challenging in manufacturing MEM’s. Let’s have a look on the first presentation that was more targeted for Eurotec’s readers (it doesn’t mean the rest was less interesting, it is actually highly interesting)…and there is more to come.
From concept to high production volume Comax Medtec is building machines to change good ideas into mass production possibilities. Erik Poulsen, Sales and Marketing director explained what the steps to achieve this are:
- Description of the device (URS)
- Set up the manufacturing strategy
- Processes identification
- Products and process analysis (by the way, think robust)
- Cost
- Deadlines
One of the main troubles met is that often people having a good idea can work well till the prototype… but there are many other constraints to overcome if we want to mass produce at high speed and reliability.
The most important information for me in that presentation was: If the manufacturing strategy is thought from the start, i.e. when designing the product, everything will be simpler and quicker later because all will have been taken into account from the start! (That sounds logical and simple...nevertheless rarely the case).
…more to come, stay tuned.
Cheers Py
