Small fortunes

Now a truly established national event, MM Live provides the perfect platform for manufacturers of precision micro components.

Taking place from 19-20 October 2010 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, the show is a global showcase for everything to do with the mass manufacture of small to micro precision parts – whether a company is making them to order or supplying the machinery to mill, cut or mould.

The exclusive focus on Micro Manufacturing technologies and techniques will provide all industry sectors with an invaluable source of information to help advance the use of existing and emerging technologies in this field. Exhibits cover the full spectrum of micro manufacturing techniques from laser cutting, welding, and micro machining to injection moulding, inspection and measurement, photo etching, handling and assembly.

Other exhibitors include: micro electro mechanical system specialists; specialist material suppliers; testing and reliability equipment and services; photo electro forming services, design and analysis software specific to micro manufacturing; and nano applications ready for technology transfer.

Alongside the main exhibition is the Micro Manufacturing Conference – a series of free presentations covering all of the key technologies employed in making and verifying precision micro components. MM Live 2010 is supported by its sister publication Commercial Micro Manufacturing Magazine and key industry organisations including AILU, BTMA, IVAM, GTMA, CECA, PMG, MedilinkWM and MAS – The Manufacturing Advisory Service.

As with previous years, exhibitors at MM Live will encompass a broad cross section of companies, disciplines and expertise. Spectrum Metrology (stand A5) for example will be exhibiting at the show for the first time this year, launching a range of innovative, high precision optical and multi-sensor measuring instruments designed by German based optical specialists Dr Heinrich Schneider Messtechnik. The product range covers a wide variety of applications for high speed measurement of intricate precision components in the tiniest detail.

Trumpf (stand E3) is recognised as one of the technological market leaders for industrial lasers on a global scale and the range of manufacturing processes to which these products are applied will be the focus at MM Live.

The company will demonstrate fast and reliable laser marking. Its modular and easily upgradeable TruMark systems are now used to mark anything from solar cells to apples and electronic components to aircraft parts.

Trumpf is also prevalent in the supply of lasers for cutting, structuring, ablation and drilling in micro production technology. Its TruMicro range of picosecond solid state lasers is optimally suited to these processing tasks.

Vision Engineering (stand E13) will be showcasing its new Falcon video measuring solution at MM Live, in partnership with Optimax, Imaging Inspection and Measurement. The new Falcon benefits from a CNC option, with camera and sub-stage iris for changeable depth of field and is said to be ideal for a wide range of measuring applications including 3-axis measurement of precision machined component parts.
Micro Waterjet technology from Bystronic (stand C2) combines abrasive waterjet cutting technology with the precision of a laser for ±3µm positioning accuracy. Offering rapid prototyping as well as production of high precision and micro parts, the new proprietary process is said to be as accurate as Wire EDM but faster without heat deformation. The technology is used in the medical, aerospace, automotive, electrical, and watch industries, and for speciality applications. Tolerances of ±0.01mm are achieved for a variety of materials including non-conductive, such as carbon fibre, while decreasing deburring and scrap rates for simple to complex parts without the negative effects of thermal stress. Specialists in bespoke turned parts, Tenable (stand E8) is a subcontract engineering company serving the aerospace, automotive, communications, defence, electronic, medical, and leisure industries. Established in 1940, it has 263 turning machines across three sites, employing 85 people.

From prototypes to mass production, Tenable manufacture connectors, pins, sockets, terminals, terminal blocks, screws, inserts and bushes from 0.3mm to 42mm diameter.

MM Live event is co-located with TCT Live 2010 – the UK's premier design engineering and product development exhibition.

The Additive Manufacturing Conference and the wider event seminar programme promise to once again be an informative mix of input from the leading authorities in additive manufacture and associated technologies from principle aerospace companies to established figures in the academic world.

Exhibitors include: Delcam; MTT Technologies; Envisiontec; Proto Labs; Wenzel, Laser Lines; GOM UK; Voxeljet; Midas Pattern Company; Majenta Solutions, Hexagon Metrology. Nikon Metrology – the result of Metris and Nikon merging are also going to be making a splash with one of the biggest booths at the show.

According to the show organisers, TCT Live is unique in that it draws together the major players in the software and product development industry for the only time in the UK every year. Exhibits cover a vast range of additive manufacturing machines and technologies including companies specialising in inspection, scanning and digitising, CAD/CAM/CAE software and materials.

MM Live
www.mmlive.co.uk

TCT
www.tctshow.com

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