μBUILDER: The easy and low cost road to advanced microsystems

Summary form only given. The goal of muBUILDER is to increase the commercial success and competitiveness of European industry by facilitating the introduction of new microtechnology to key components in products. muBUILDER provides industry with a simple and cost-effective access to mixed technology development and manufacturing and supports customers from the first idea to a final product. SMEs, but also academic research groups, are the target user group. muBUILDER offers a full service from design through prototype manufacturing to high-volume production of mixed technology devices mainly made from a combination of silicon, glass and plastics with functional surface layers. The muBUILDER services are focused on mufluidic devices like: lab-on-a-chip systems, valves and pumps, biomedical devices, chemical mu-reactors, sensors for instrumentation, gas and flow sensors.