NEWS
The 2008 Annual Meeting of the foundation will be held on July 1 and 2, 2008.
The venue is InterContinental Mark Hopkins, San Francisco
The meeting includes award granting ceremony, invited lectures and announcement for the new activities.
Those who want to submit the application for the support for the year 2008-2009, please attend the meeting.
This is the best opportunity to get familiar with the activities of the Foundation and discuss the future possible awards through face-to-face meeting with the key personnel such as the Board of Directors of the Foundation.
To register the Annual Meeting, complete the REGISTRATION FORM and send by fax to +1-415-359-0864.
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The Schedule of the 2008 Annual Meeting
June 30, 2008 (Monday)
16:00 - 18:00 Registration
18:30 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
July 1, 2008 (Tuesday)
07:30 - 08:30 Late Registration and Breakfast
08:30 - 08:50 Opening Address Prof. Kazuo Yamazaki
08:50 - 10:10 Technical Presentations
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08:50 - 09:10 |
A Study on the Generation of Silicon Based Hardware PLC by means of the Direct Conversion of the Ladder Diagram to Circuit Design Language |
Daoshan Du Xiaodong Xu |
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09:10 - 09:30 |
Automatic On Machine 3D Modeling System of Cutter and Holder |
Xi Zhang |
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09:30 - 09:50 |
On-machine Comprehensive Evaluation of Cutting Edge by Using Machine Vision |
Waiming Tseng |
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09:50 - 10:10 |
Virtual On-machine NC Program Debugging by means of Shortest Distance Checking in Machining Workspace |
M. Sharif Uddin |
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:30 Technical Presentations
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10:40 - 11:00 |
A Study on the Development of a High Speed and High Power Spindle System for Quality Productive Machining |
Masakazu Soshi |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Systematic Study of High Productive Surface Finishing by Electron Beam Irradiation with Vibration Assistance |
Zhigang Wang |
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11:20 - 11:35 |
Automatic NC Programming for Making Custom End Mills by Tool Makerfs Six-axis Wire EDM |
Xiang Cheng |
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11:35 - 11:55 |
Recent Upgrades of IMS Laboratory and Artistic Machining Initiatives in Progress |
Peter Boonsom |
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11:55 - 12:10 |
A Study on Development of FPGA based Mechatronics Controller using Microcontroller as IP core |
Hector Gamero |
12:10 - 12:20 Concluding Remarks Prof. Kazuo Yamazaki
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 Opening Address and Annual Activity Report
Prof. Kazuo Yamazaki, CEO and President of MTTRF
14:20 - 14:50 Foundation Lecture Dr. Masahiko Mori, President and CEO, Mori Seiki, Co., Ltd.
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14:20 - 14:50 |
Evolving Infrastructure for High End Machine Tool Business |
Dr. Masahiko Mori |
14:50 - 15:00 Presentation of MTTRF 2008 Distinguished Service Award
Recipients: Dr. Dick Kegg
15:00 - 15:30 MTTRF 2008 Distinguished Lecture 1
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15:00 - 15:30 |
My experience in machine tools |
Dr. Dick Kegg |
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 MTTRF 2008 Equipment Loan Award Presentations and Lecture Presentations
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Feed optimization for five-axes CNC machine tools with drive constraints |
Burak Sencer, Prof. Yusuf Altintas Univ. of British Columbia |
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Cryogenic micromachining of PDMS for microfluidic chips |
Yasuhiro Kakinuma, Nobuhito Yasuda, Prof. Tojiro Aoyama Keio University |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Test piece for testing 5-axis machines |
S. Bossoni, J. Cupic, Prof. Konrad Wegener ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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17:00 - 17:45 |
Sodick Micro and Nano Machining Solutions |
Peter Fonda Sodick Co. Ltd. Chicago, USA |
19:00 - 21:00 Meeting Banquet
July 2, 2008 (Wednesday)
07:30 - 08:30 Late Registration and Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00 MTTRF 2008 Invited Lecture
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08:30 - 09:00 |
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09:00 - 10:00 MTTRF 2008 Equipment Loan Award Presentations and Lecture Presentations
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Tool path generation functionality and ultrasonic assisted machining of ceramic components using multi-axis machine tools |
Prof. Bert Lauwers, D. Plakhotnik, M. Vanparys, W. Liu Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
A study on tool posture decision for process planning in 3+2-axis control milling |
Prof. Keiichi Shirase, Toshiro Shibasaka, Keiichi Nakamoto, Kobe University |
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 MTTRF 2008 Equipment Loan Award Presentations and Lecture Presentations
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Evaluation of tool life in micro milling |
M.A.J. Huygens, Prof. Mustafizur Rahman, K.S. Neo, S.B. Tan, C.H. Tan National Univ. Singapore |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Development of CAM system for multi-tasking machine tools |
Takashi Kotani, Tohru Ishida, Prof. Yoshimi Takeuchi Osaka University |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Analysis of cutting strategies for high-productive end milling and a long-term process control scheme to regulate tool life |
Prof. Atsushi Matsubara Prof. Soichi Ibaraki Kyoto University |
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 MTTRF 2008 Equipment Loan Award Presentations and Lecture Presentations
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13:30 - 14:00 |
Measurements and inspection with machine tools by remote control in micro-milling operations – a first investigation |
R.T. Coelho, A.J. Abackerli, Prof. Joao Fernando Oliveira, N.M. Torrisi, F.F. Watanabe University of São Paulo |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
Thermal aspects of actively driven rotary tool in turning |
Akira Hosokawa, Prof. Takashi Ueda, Ryoji Onishi, Gregory A. Hyatt, Morihiro Hideta, Koji Okura, Kanazawa University |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
Micromachining for the precision fabrication of microfluidic devices Interoperability Standards for Machine Tool Performance Monitoring |
Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Jeffrey Hartnett, Sangkee Min, Prof. David Dornfeld University of California, Berkeley |
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 MTTRF 2008 Equipment Loan Award Presentations and Lecture Presentations
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Research opportunities in multi scale high speed machining of aerospace and medical grade alloys |
Prof. Nilufer Egrican Dr. Tugrul Ozel Yeditepe University |
16:00 - 16:30 MTTRF 2008 Invited Lecture
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16:00 - 16:30 |
BinarySpaces / Machine Tool Simulation |
Mr. Chuck Mathews DP Technology Corporation |
16:30 - 16:50 Concluding Address Dr. Masahiko Mori, Director of MTTRF
16:50 - 17:00 Concluding Remarks Prof. Kazuo Yamazaki, President of MTTRF
17:00 Group photo
18:30 - 21:30 Farewell party