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   

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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

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

09:10 - 09:30

Automatic On Machine 3D Modeling System of Cutter and Holder

Xi Zhang

09:30 - 09:50

On-machine Comprehensive Evaluation of Cutting Edge by Using Machine Vision

Waiming Tseng

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

10:40 - 11:00

A Study on the Development of a High Speed and High Power Spindle System for Quality Productive Machining

Masakazu Soshi

11:00 - 11:20

Systematic Study of High Productive Surface Finishing by Electron Beam Irradiation with Vibration Assistance

Zhigang Wang

11:20 - 11:35

Automatic NC Programming for Making Custom End Mills by Tool Makerfs Six-axis Wire EDM

Xiang Cheng

11:35 - 11:55

Recent Upgrades of IMS Laboratory and Artistic Machining Initiatives in Progress

Peter Boonsom

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. 

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  

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 

16:00 - 16:30

Feed optimization for five-axes CNC machine tools with drive constraints

Burak Sencer,

Prof. Yusuf Altintas

Univ. of British Columbia

16:30 - 17:00

Cryogenic micromachining of PDMS for microfluidic chips

Yasuhiro Kakinuma, Nobuhito Yasuda, Prof. Tojiro Aoyama

Keio University

17:00 - 17:30

Test piece for testing 5-axis machines

S. Bossoni, J. Cupic, Prof. Konrad Wegener

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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 

08:30 - 09:00

 

 

09:00 - 10:00   MTTRF 2008 Equipment Loan Award Presentations and Lecture Presentations 

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

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 

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

11:00 - 11:30

Development of CAM system for multi-tasking machine tools

Takashi Kotani, Tohru Ishida, Prof. Yoshimi Takeuchi

Osaka University

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 

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

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

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 

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 

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