An integrated planning approach for a nanodeposition manufacturing process

作者：Tang Dong^*; Palekar Udatta S

来源：International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2010, 51(5-8): 561-573.

DOI：10.1007/s00170-010-2651-1

• Process planning
• Nanodeposition manufacturing systems
• Pattern decomposition
• Fluidic routing
• Toolbit path planning

This paper deals with the planning problem in a nanodeposition manufacturing process, in which a toolbit that consists of a multilayer grid of micro/nanofluidic channels is used to deposit nanoscale liquid materials to desired positions on workparts to form solid patterns. The objective is to obtain a planning procedure that achieves efficient throughput for the studied nanodeposition manufacturing systems. We break down the studied problem into several sub-problems as design pattern decomposition, nanopore assignment, liquid material routing in the multilayer grid fluidic network, and toolbit path planning. Efficient algorithms are proposed to solve these sub-problems individually, and then finally integrated into a framework that systematically plans the nanodeposition manufacturing process. A software tool that plans, simulates, and controls the nanodeposition manufacturing process by implementing the proposed algorithms is reported in this paper.

• 出版日期2010-11