FROM MANUAL TO AUTOMATIC MICRO ASSEMBLY WITH MA3 SOLUTIONS

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FROM MANUAL TO AUTOMATIC MICRO ASSEMBLY WITH MA3 SOLUTIONS
07 May 2003 - Nyquist Industrial Control

TNO Industrie from Eindhoven, Nyquist Industrial Control from Eindhoven and Te Strake from Deurne together have set up MA3 Solutions BV. The shareholders have combined their expertise in order to provide flexible assembly solutions for hybrid micro systems. MA3 Solutions focuses primarily on companies who wish to industrialise a prototype or companies that due to quality or cost considerations want to switch from manual to automatic assembly. MA3 Solutions focuses particularly on the sensory systems and biomedical markets.

Bulk microsystems are generally manufactured on specially designed fixed production lines. Small series, however, are usually made by hand. MA3 Solutions provides flexible assembly solutions for medium-sized series and products that due to excessive miniaturisation can no longer be made manually.

MA3 stands for More Accessible Micro Assembly within a Modular Architecture. MA3 Solutions makes as much use as possible of proven and standardised solutions. A functional prototype of a customer's product and the assembly processes used are evaluated and modified where necessary. MA3 Solutions then selects and realises the equipment most suitable for its customers. This custom-made equipment is based on basic solutions that have been developed by MA3 Solutions.

The MA3 Pilot Bench (a semi-automatic assembly solution) can be used to demonstrate the most critical of processes and to manufacture the smaller series.
The MA3 Automatic Assembly Cell is composed of standard assembly cells as well as delivery and discharge modules that are attached to them. The advantages of the MA3 Automatic Assembly Cell are the local clean room conditions within the cell, the standardised transport system, the shock-proof production environment, the integral control system and the far-reaching possibilities to design the production environment according to one's own needs.

The solutions of MA3 Solutions can be continually re-configured, enabling the standard modules to be constantly modified, too, according to new requirements.
In addition to the design service and the supply of equipment, MA3 Solutions also accepts commissions to take care of the entire production of microsystems for its customers.

'MA3 Solutions reduces the barriers for our customers in industrialising hybrid micro systems. In this way investments can be better kept in line with the development of the turnover and the market of the customer,' says Managing Director Jean van Wersch. 'The solutions of MA3 Solutions show at an early stage the technical feasibility of a chosen product design and process, thereby helping to keep risks to a minimum. MA3 Solutions shortens the time to market for the products of customers, by using standard processes and solutions as much as possible.'

What is special about MA3 Solutions is that the expertise of a knowledge institute such as TNO Industrie in the area of Micro System assembly and the industrial experience of Motion Control supplier Nyquist and Mechatronic Module and Machine Construction company Te Strake are combined in unique solutions for customers. MA3 Solutions expects to be able to supply the first Pilot Benches very soon.

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About: Nyquist Industrial Control
Nyquist has a long and rich history. A history that goes back to the beginning of the early seventies, when the company was still part of Philips. Since then, the organisation has played a pioneering role in the field of high-quality Motion Control systems, VME and PLC machine control platforms.

The foundations for the present-day company Nyquist Industrial Control were paved in the seventies. This happened when the first standardised servo system was developed, initially created for Philips' internal machine building. This led to a large international installed base, both within and outside of our own organisation. For instance, the doors of the Dutch Railways' trains are still fitted with VME-based control systems from Nyquist. And then just think of all the automatically opening bridges, traction systems, trams, machines for making glass moulds, embroidering machinery, pastry-making machines, ships' terminals, incinerators and water purification plants.

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