Micromachining technology can be applied to various materials. These materials include polymers, metals, alloys and other hard materials. Micromachining technology can accurately process to one thousandth of a millimeter, which helps to make the production of small parts more efficient and realistic. Also known as micro scale mechanical manufacturing (M4 process), micro machining manufactures products one by one to help establish dimensional consistency between parts.
Micromachining is a relatively new manufacturing process, and many industries are following the trend of using micro parts in different applications, including medical parts, electronic components, particle filters and parts in other fields. Micromachining allows engineers to make small, complex parts. These components can then be used in experiments to reconstruct large-scale processes on a small scale. On chip organs and microfluidics are two examples of micromachining applications.
Micromachining technology is also known as micro part processing. Micro machining is a manufacturing process, which uses mechanical micro tools with geometrically defined cutting edges to manufacture very small parts, so as to reduce materials and manufacture products or features with at least some sizes in the range of microns. The tool diameter used for micromachining may be as small as 0.001 inch.