PMA (Production engineering, Machine design and Automation), being a division of the Mechanical Engineering Department, is a part of the Engineering Faculty of the KU Leuven. PMA carries out research in the areas of production engineering, machine design and mechatronics. More specifically, the research themes include new production processes, CAD/CAM/CAPP, assembly automation, dimensional metrology and reverse engineering, machine and instrument design, structural dynamics and acoustics, motion control, programming and control of robots and intelligent machines, and life cycle engineering. We pursue a balance between basic or long-term research on the one hand, which is vital in order to maintain an advanced scientific level, and applied or short-term research on the other hand, which is probably the most important mission of an engineering research laboratory.
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