The MicroLean Lab opens its doors on the morning of November 6, 2021 as part of the 10th edition of the Watchmaking Heritage Biennale. Three hour-long visits at the Saint-Imier Technology Park will allow you to discover the evolution of the watchmaking production tool. Additional information and compulsory registration on bit.ly/bph-mill
As part of the SIAMS+ day, on 5th May 2021, Florian Serex, MicroLean Lab partnerships and development manager, will give a presentation entitled “From automation to autonomization”. He will then participate, with several manufacturers, in a round table on the theme “Automation and robotics”. The manufacture of a complex successful product requires the mastery, by specialized professionals, of many technological blocks, automated or not. The autonomization of these technological blocks allows a single person, with Read more…
The connected, autonomous and reconfigurable micro-factory currently being developed within the framework of the MicroLean Lab finds its origin in the micro5, a revolutionary 5-axis milling machine designed in 2015 at the HE-Arc Ingénierie. That year, as part of a product design course, three Industrial Design Engineering students had the idea of creating a micro-factory made up of different types of micromachines. One of them, Mathieu Steulet, who then worked as an assistant in the Read more…
MicroLean Lab is one of the six winners of the i4Challenge 2020, in the “New Ideas” category. Organized by Basel Area Business & Innovation, this challenge rewards the most promising Industry 4.0 solutions. It is open to companies and research centers from Switzerland, Alsace and the southwest of Germany. Discover all the winners
From the 3rd to the 19th of November, 150 people working mainly in Swiss companies came to discover the first proof of concept of the autonomous, connected and reconfigurable micro-factory developed by the MicroLean Lab at the Saint-Imier Technology Park. In groups of no more than five people, they had the opportunity to learn more about the MicroLean Lab, a community of interest bringing together watchmaking groups, Swiss SMEs and the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie Read more…
We were planning to present the first prototype of our micro-factory this fall at the SIAMS fair in Moutier. After its cancellation, we invite you to discover it in our renovated premises at the Saint-Imier Technology Park. Several micro-visits will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons of the first three weeks of November, in accordance with the sanitary measures in force. They will be limited to ten people per hour. To see the Read more…
Ordering your new car from your computer by completely personalizing it, changing your mind when it has already been ordered, monitoring its production and finally picking it up in a chosen place, this is what the 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, allows. During the Swiss Digital Days (November 1-3. 2020), Philippe Grize, director of the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie, speaks about the evolution of industry from the 19th century and presents the MicroLean Lab, an Read more…
The Lab Network Industrie 4.0 (LNI4.0) is a German association founded by companies linked to Plattform Industrie 4.0 in cooperation with the Bitkom, VDMA and ZVEI federations. It aims at helping the German medium-sized sector play a leading role in global digitization. This experimental network makes it possible to test new technologies, innovations and business models in the environment of Industry 4.0 and to examine their economic feasibility before their launch on the market. In addition, Read more…
During the virtual SIAMS fair, the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie professors Claude Jeannerat and Nabil Ouerhani present the MicroLean Lab in a short video then Max Monti, the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie Partnerships and Valorisation Manager, answers the questions of the virtual visitors. Discover more on this experimentation center aiming at developing an autonomous, connected micro-factory that can be reconfigured at will called to revolutionize the means of microtechnology production. See the MicroLean Lab presentation Read more…
An agile, iterative approach has been chosen in order to minimise risks and to quickly demonstrate the potential of the concepts that are conceived, studied and developed in the Lab. The project is broken down into three 5-step iterations: Analysis and Specification Dsign Implementation Testing and Approval User Feedback and Improvement The deliverables of the three iterations take the form of open-ended, upgradable prototypes: Iteration 1: validation prototype: micro-factory concept comprising functional blocks that are Read more…