BOA: Boring for Optimum Accuracy

A project led by Professors Yoram Koren, PE, and A. Galip Ulsoy, and Assistant Research Scientist Zbigniew Pasek was named one of Industry Week magazine's Top 25 Technology Developments for 1999. New concepts, and smart tooling, for boring machines were developed. The BOA is a collaboration between MEAM and Lamb Technicon Machining Systems, which received the award, and was funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP).

Photo Courtesy of Lamb Technician Machining Systems Above, team members include: front row (l­r), Chen-Jung Li, Byung-Kwon Min, Pilaka Murty, A.G. Ulsoy; middle row (l­r), Peter M. Beecherl, Jeff Brown, Jim Black, Z. Pasek, Phil Szuba; back row (l­r), Ali Saeedy, George O'Neal, Ernie Packley, Stephen B. Segall, Ilkyu Huh; not pictured: Aaron Clark, Y. Koren, William J. Endres, and Mostafa (Moses) Mehrabi.

 U-M MEAM CPO / Rodney Hill

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