Manufacturing industries are flooded with new technologies. They constantly shape the whole industry and they never stop emerging. Companies demand highly efficient machinists who are constantly on the learning side besides knowing the usual construction, operation and maintenance of new equipments.
It is only because of Precision Engineering and its development, machines are able to produce products repeatedly in the same exact manner precisely. Study of this engineering can be treated as a sub-discipline of software, mechanical, electrical, electronics and optic engineering. One of the machinery used in this method is CNC machines. Conventional machines are controlled by CNC – computer numerical controlled machines.
- The efficiency of these machines is so great that usage of these is highly encouraged in important fields.
- Another important reason in using CNC machines in precision manufacturing is their speed.
- The third reason is their precise and error free production at umpteen times. The quality of products used with CNC is the highest and hence they are much in great demand.
Nanotechnology, a newly emerging branch of science, can be used to steer the path more towards achieving similar results. It has great capabilities to bring out the great changes towards improvement that can easily rule future economy. This technology can be used to manufacture materials with atomically precise technologies. When successfully implemented, it can perform in a far superior manner. Eventually, prices also can be minimized to a far less level. Already, molecular manufacturing techniques have been adopted in chip manufacturing.
Future Developments
Precision manufacturing in atomic field is the newly emerging engineering that is under research and development stage. When this becomes possible, it will be useful for everything under the sun from medicine to climate change.
Some points to learn about Atomic Precision Manufacturing:
- APM or atomic precision manufacturing is under development and not yet ready.
- Cars, computers, aircraft, photovoltaic - everything can be manufactured at a low cost using this mode of production since the material is a very as common as sand.
- Principles of Physics and engineering reveal that this is 100% possible.
- Simple, ordinary principles of chemistry and physics are the basics of APM.
- Details of APM system are well within science textbooks easily understood by all.
- There is a great resemblance between APM machinery and ordinary factory machinery. Measurements are followed in centimeters and nanometers only.
- Though there is a long way to go, the progress in this field is enormous.
- The main principle of APM is based on atomically precise structures. Molecular scientists and chemists are the main people working on this nearly around a century.
- Products already in usage can be found in laundry detergents ranging from pharmaceuticals to engineered enzymes.
- The challenge facing this APM is to build larger structures. In addition, it is to be developed in such a way that has a wider range of materials and thereby to produce a wider range of functional devices.
- The whole road map of APM is devised by Eric Drexler, who is also known as the father of nanotechnology, in his book “radical abundance: how a revolution in nanotechnology will change civilization”.
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