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Assembly of Microproducts: State of the Art and New Solutions

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Nowadays, miniaturization is playing an important role in product redesign while complex microproducts are leaving their traditional domains. These two aspects concur to the need for increasing their production and reducing their cost. One of the main production problems is represented by microassembly. This keynote paper deals with the microassembly problems, shows the state of the art of the research, highlights the most promising R&D areas in this field and finally presents some new solutions for hybrid microproducts assembly.

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Santochi, M., Fantoni, G., Fassi, I. (2005). Assembly of Microproducts: State of the Art and New Solutions. In: Kuljanic, E. (eds) AMST’05 Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 486. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-38053-1_9

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