Monday, April 14, 2008
Precision Engineering Advances - Sol-gel Coating, Liquid Forging, In-situ X-ray
Preciosion engineers help turn ideas into cost-effective reality through equipment design.Take, for example, the semiconductor industry. Its contribution is not in one specific invention but in fitting all the pieces of the puzzle that makes the automated integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing process so smooth-flowing, at a low cost. It explains why a laptop today costs under $2,000 and is so fast, compared to the 1990s, when a laptop cost easily above $10,000.
Some developments have been: development of a sol-gel-based multi-layer coating which made laundry irons scratch-proof and which was commercialised by electronics giant Philips in its laundry iron products; the world's first ultra-precision machining method using diamond cutters to carve steel into moulds to optical quality with the finest possible smoothness. This has reduced the manufacturing cost of contact ; liquid forging - doing away with traditional die-cast methods and making stronger components in the process; in-situ X-ray measurement, where a team is developing high-speed software resolution of images.
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Some developments have been: development of a sol-gel-based multi-layer coating which made laundry irons scratch-proof and which was commercialised by electronics giant Philips in its laundry iron products; the world's first ultra-precision machining method using diamond cutters to carve steel into moulds to optical quality with the finest possible smoothness. This has reduced the manufacturing cost of contact ; liquid forging - doing away with traditional die-cast methods and making stronger components in the process; in-situ X-ray measurement, where a team is developing high-speed software resolution of images.
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