Proceedings of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: The conferences are held by a consortium of academic societies in East Asia to promote collaboration among scientists in the region. The 114 papers from the 2011 sitting look at such areas as precision and ultra-precision machining, non-traditional machining, manufacturing systems and machine tools, nanometer and micrometer metrology and surface characterization, electro-mechanical systems, advanced moulding and forming, high precision mechatronics, and other technologies association with micrometer and nanometer manufacturing. The topics include fabricating fine mesh filter screens with a pulsed laser, robust production scheduling using autonomous distributed systems, analyzing the stress on cannonballs during collision with the sea surface, developing a focusing system for X-ray free-electron lasers, binocular robot vision with an active viewpoint for measuring spheres, a novel process for fabricating large area triangular nanocavity arrays by bilayer nanosphere lithography, the micropolishing of tungsten carbide using a magnetostrictive vibrating polisher, and the nonlinear dynamics of tool vibration in micro-cutting.