Mckeown's 11 Principles of Precision Machine Design

After many decades leading Cranfield Precision and developing ultra-precision machine tools, Professor Mckeown, compiled a list of eleven principles of precision machine design. The list, reporoduced and presented below, serves as a checklist of the critical design catagories that should be considered while design precision machines and systems.

  1. Structure
  2. Thermal management & design
  3. Kinematic / Semi Kinematic Design
  4. Abbe Principle
  5. Metrology Frames
  6. Bearings
  7. Drives / Carriages
  8. Thermal Effects
  9. Servo-Drives and Control (CNC)
  10. Error Budgeting
  11. Error Compensation