Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
May 22, 2003: Seminar on Advanced 5-Axis CNC for Industry & Research will be held at the Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus, 4th Floor, Room 413. The seminar will be conducted in English and participants are limited to approximately 50 only.
Interested persons are advised to register by May 1, 2003. After this deadline, the registration will be accepted only if space is available. A registration fee of THB1,000 (including handout, lunch and refreshments) should be made by either a check or by a bank transfer. Please send the payment along with the registration form. For further information please visit http://www.ise.ait.ac.th/cimlab/5axis_seminar.htm
or http://www.5axis-thai.com
The organizing committee of the seminar are as follows: Dr. Stanislav Makhanov, Associate Professor, SIIT; Dr. Mud-Armeen Munlin, Assistant Professor, SIIT; Ir. Erik L. J. Bohez, Associate Professor, AIT and Than Lin, CIM-Laboratory Manager, AIT
Introduction
Nowadays there exists an obvious trend in the modern aerospace, car and ship building industries to replace 3-axis milling with 5 or even 6-axis machining. The well-established advantages of multi-axis milling such as the high material-removal rates and improved surface finish, allow for a substantial improvement in the accuracy of cutting operations as well as reduction of time required to manufacture complex shaped parts.
It is of paramount importance to develop software focusing on issues surrounding the efficient 5-axis implementations such as tool-path tracing, dynamic display of all moving elements and realistic solid modeling of the material removal.
In Thailand there exists a number of companies and research laboratories in which 5-axis milling has been actively used and analyzed. However, in spite of a variety of conferences and seminars on manufacturing there has been rarely an event specifically focused on 5-axis milling.
Therefore, the main goal of the seminar is to invite the Thai 5-axis machining community including the users, the software vendors and the researchers, to establish cooperation and exchange ideas.
Objectives:
- Introduce 5-axis CAD/CAM
- Discuss requirements of the industry
- Introduce 5-axis applications for Thai industry
- Present 5-axis research at AIT/SIIT
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