Obiettivo The electronics manufacturing sector has seen significant changes over the past two years. Volume manufacturing has become a commodity service resulting in: creation of multinational manufacturing service providers; migration of volume operations to low-cost locations external to EC and the evolution of manufacturing technology only ideally suited to high volume production. The future of the industry will be based in an evolving, dynamic SME community. SME manufacturers survive """";by providing low-volume, high variety, mixed-batch manufacture or production of niche and high-value added products. This community faces challenges from market, manufacturing technology and legislative pressures. The pressures of mass-customisation, decreasing life cycles and integration of multifunctional features, such as MST and MEMs technologies, requires the adoption of sophisticated manufacturing capabilities with flexibility to. cope with a broad mix of products and volumes. Manufacturing technology has evolved towards efficiency in volume production, with scant regard to flexibility and rapid changeover for lower volume production. Agility will be a key element to SME survival and future investment. The WEEE directive banning lead requires SMEs to adopt new manufacturing practices, requiring another dimension of flexibility in capability and potential cost impacts from expensive consumables (N2) and higher energy requirements. The lead-free changeover also requires the understanding of these materials in production and product life-cycle. Flex-eman offers a solution to these challenges by utilising individual precision soldering chambers combined in a work-cell serviced by intelligent materials handling and control systems. This replaces an inflexible production process with an agile system, specifically designed jor cost-efficiency in manufacture of mixed product and batch sizes. The system is inherently fault-tolerant, eco-friendly and incorporates state of the art co" Campo scientifico engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemssocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce Parole chiave Lead-free Agile Electronics Manufacture Programma(i) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Argomento(i) SME-2 - Collective Research (all areas of science and technology) Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Data not available Coordinatore PLANER PLC Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 110 Windmill Road SUNBURY Regno Unito Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (8) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB Svezia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Sven Hultinsgata 2 GOETEBORG Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato CUSTOM INTERCONNECT LTD Regno Unito Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 3 Jenner Road GUILDFORD, SURREY Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato DATALINK ELECTRONICS LTD. Regno Unito Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 8 Jubilee Drive LOUGHBOROUGH Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato FOAB ELEKTRONIK AB Svezia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Sankt Jorgens Vagg HISINGS BACKA, GOTHENBURG Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY Regno Unito Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Ashby Road LOUGHBOROUGH Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato MBDA UK LIMITED Regno Unito Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo SIX HILLS WAY SG12DA STEVENAGE, HERTFORDSHIRE Mostra sulla mappa Tipo di attività Other Costo totale Nessun dato REALTIME TECHNOLOGIES LTD Irlanda Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Clonshaugh Industrial Estate DUBLIN Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato SEREMAP SA Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Z A Mourillon QUEVEN Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
