Christian Brecher Books

Focusing on the design of mechatronic components, this volume delves into feed drives for machine tools essential for dynamic movements. It offers engineering guides on component selection, control technology, and measurement systems for precise positioning. Additionally, it explores process and diagnostic equipment for manufacturing systems. The second part covers control concepts, programming methods, and various controllers (PLC, NC, RC) relevant to modern production systems, highlighting the automation pyramid and the critical role of control systems in machine and plant engineering.

Final report of BMBF collaboration project 'ERANET-OPTICALSTRUCT' Many new developments in optical systems are driven by the quick improvements of LEDs as light source. The LED technology allows for new lighting systems for example in headlights for automotive applications or in miniaturized illumination systems in the field of display technology. In both cases highly sophisticated polymer optics are required to realize these new lighting applications. Often the combination of free-form surfaces with microstructures to hybrid optical systems is necessary. By combining diffractive and refractive functions to hybrid optical systems a high potential of cost saving and light weight design is possible due to the integration of multiple functions into one optical element. The research conducted in the scope of the project 'ERANET-OPTICALSTRUCT' strongly contributed in enabling these new and innovative lighting solutions based on hybrid optics. The aim of the project was to improve the whole process chain starting with the optical design, the flexible machining of molds by diamond cutting, and ending with the manufacturing and characterization of the final product by replication. Beside the replication as final manufacturing step, ultra-precision machining using diamond cutting tools is the key technology for the production of hybrid optics and the corresponding molds. However, the ultra-precision machining systems as well as the process technology needed improvements and a new hybrid Fast Tool Servo system to enable the production of hybrid optics.

Actual topics and trends in bevel gear technology are presented and discussed in this special-interest seminar which is well established among the international technical community. Nowadays customers require high performance bevel gears. Within this seminar current developments of design and calculation processes are introduced. Furthermore the new inventions in bevel gear production and quality inspection will be presented. The seminar gives an overview about the state of the art. Current problems in bevel gear production will be discussed in preparation for future research and developments. This conference will be offered with simultaneous translation into English.

For more than 50 years the annual WZL Gear Conference in Aachen, Germany, has been fostering technical collaboration and communication among the members of the WZL Gear Research Circle . The two - day conference is devoted exclusively to the presentation of the latest research in gear design, manufacturing and testing . Additionally, the software resources of the WZL Gear Research Circle are available for examination, including solutions for gear design and manufacturing process development . Participants of the conference are encouraged to tour the WZL laboratory with its shop floor and test rigs . Within this environment associations are formed and the exchange of knowledge among the members of the technical community is promoted . With up to 300 participants from Europe and overseas, the WZL Gear Conference is one of the largest annual events dedicated to gear technology in Europe.

For more than 50 years the annual WZL Gear Conference in Aachen, Germany, has been fostering technical collaboration and communication among the members of the WZL Gear Research Circle . The two - day conference is devoted exclusively to the presentation of the latest research in gear design, manufacturing and testing . Additionally, the software resources of the WZL Gear Research Circle are available for examination, including solutions for gear design and manufacturing process development . Participants of the conference are encouraged to tour the WZL laboratory with its shop floor and test rigs . Within this environment associations are formed and the exchange of knowledge among the members of the technical community is promoted . With up to 300 participants from Europe and overseas, the WZL Gear Conference is one of the largest annual events dedicated to gear technology in Europe.

For more than 50 years the annual WZL Gear Conference in Aachen, Germany, has been fostering technical collaboration and communication among the members of the WZL Gear Research Circle . The two - day conference is devoted exclusively to the presentation of the latest research in gear design, manufacturing and testing . Additionally, the software resources of the WZL Gear Research Circle are available for examination, including solutions for gear design and manufacturing process development . Participants of the conference are encouraged to tour the WZL laboratory with its shop floor and test rigs . Within this environment associations are formed and the exchange of knowledge among the members of the technical community is promoted . With up to 300 participants from Europe and overseas, the WZL Gear Conference is one of the largest annual events dedicated to gear technology in Europe.

Das Spektrum von optischen Kunststoffkomponenten erweitert sich stetig um innovative Herstellungstechnologien, Materialien und Produkte. Das Ziel der Konferenz ist es, sowohl materialseitige als auch technologieorientierte sowie anwendungsbezogene Aspekte aufzugreifen und vor dem Hintergrund von aktuellen Trends und Fragestellungen im Themenfeld Kunststoffoptik zu beleuchten.

Das Spektrum von optischen Kunststoffkomponenten erweitert sich stetig um innovative Herstellungstechnologien, Materialien und Produkte. Das Ziel der Konferenz ist es, sowohl materialseitige als auch technologieorientierte sowie anwendungsbezogene Aspekte aufzugreifen und vor dem Hintergrund von aktuellen Trends und Fragestellungen im Themenfeld Kunststoffoptik zu beleuchten.

LED’s open up new possibilities in lighting. Although most of the people are mainly interested in the high efficiency and therefore the energy savings realized with LED’s, mainly optical engineers and lighting designers are fascinated by the very bright but small light source which – at least in theory – opens up completely new possibilities in optical design. But these opportunities do not come for free – on the other side new challenges have to be mastered, mainly in terms of the high brightness of the light source itself, the hemispherical distribution of the direct part of the light, not to forget topics like binning and kitting.