A Cyber Physical Test Bed for collaborative Micro Assembly engineering

In this paper, the creation of a Cyber Physical Test Bed (CTB) to support a Virtual Enterprise oriented approach for the assembly of micro devices is discussed. The domain of Micro Assembly provides a natural context to develop products by adopting a VE functioning approach and using semantic technologies. As each VE partner or engineering organization in the domain of micro assembly possesses different micro assembly resources, there is a need to form collaborative partnerships to address specific customer requests related to Micro Assembly. This nature of the domain lends itself as an ideal ground to test the development of a Virtual Enterprise oriented approach using a range of software and other resources.