MOUV - Mechanics, tooling, machining and glassworking

Picture credit : Yvan Flamant

Technical and scientific expertise

• Support and technical assistance at all stages of mechanical or glass prototyping design, from mechanical fabrication of a device to on-site experimental installation
• Technical advice
• Development of vacuum devices
• CAD/CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Drafting/Design/Manufacturing)
• Borosilicate 3.3 and quartz glass processing

Main equipment

• Machines for machining, prototyping, metrology, TIG and MIG welding, brazing, tribofinishing, bead-blasting, etc.

• Milling equipment

  - A park of 3-axis digital milling machines with strokes from 550 x 350 x 300 mm to 700 x 500 x 500 mm
  - A conventional 3-axis milling machine with strokes from 250 x 150 x 350 mm to 600 x 250 x 400 mm
  - A 5-axis milling machine with 1530 x 530 x 465 mm stroke and a 650 mm diameter rotary table for the 4^th and 5^th axes

• Lathes

- A digital lathe park with two lathes ranging from a diameter of 160 mm by 750 mm stroke length to a diameter of 255 mm by 1500 mm stroke length
- A conventional lathe park with :
    * two lathes ranging from a diameter of 250 mm by 1500 mm length, up to a diameter of 400 mm to/and 700 mm with the bed broken by 2000 mm length
    * a collet lathe with diameters from 1 to 20 mm per 500 mm stroke length

Main equipment for glassworking

• Glassmaker's table for hand work
• Glass lathe
• Water diamond circular saw
• Rotary table for flat lapping in glassmaking
• Glass annealing/thermoforming bell furnace up to 1000°C
  (capacity 600 liters, actual inside dimensions: width 2000 mm, depth 1000 mm, height 300 mm)

Applications

• Mechatronics implementation
• Implementation and testing of vacuum technology (metal and glass)
• Didactic implementation

Services available to

• UCLouvain students and researchers
• Private companies