THE YIN AND YANG STRATEGY FOR MORE ECONOMIC HYBRID MICROSYSTEM ASSEMBLY

摘要

Automatic assembly of hybrid microsystems is still not very widely used in industrial production. A substantial number of microsystems is manufactured in small and medium series where manual labour still dominates. The main reason for the reluctant introduction of automatic assembly systems are design unsuitable for automated assembly as well as high investment and still low flexibility of assembly equipment. Design for assembly is still a hardly used methodology. Recent years have seen increasing efforts to improve the equipment situation. Standards have been defined or are currently under development to allow for more modular assembly systems. Taking one of these approaches alone falls too short. Hence a holistic strategy is proposed that combines measures on the product design side with measures on the equipment side; - the Yin and Yang strategy for microassembly.