METAV 2022 will be showcasing innovations – from micro-milling cutter design to digitalized shrink chucks. "It’s time to wake up," says Professor Wolfgang Boos, Managing Director of WBA Tooling Academy Aachen GmbH, Germany, addressing the tool construction industry. He is drawing attention to the vital role which digitalized process chains will play in the future. However, tools and molds are still made primarily of metal and need to be machined as efficiently as possible. And so, while (…)

Students of the ETH project Dyana are fusing animation and robotics together to create a cat-like character with realistic movements. To manufacture their intricate prototype, Andrina Grimm and her team also rely on Sintratec’s 3D printing technology. A unique animatronics Project Dyana began in autumn 2020 as an interdisciplinary focus project of the ETH Zurich and 3 other Swiss universities, in which 14 bachelor students were to design and build a unique robot. Engineering student (…)

Digitalization and sustainability – these are the key topics at HANNOVER MESSE 2022. The world’s leading trade show for industrial technology thus promotes more climate protection in business and industry and clearly illustrates how digitalization, automation and regenerative energies can collectively contribute. After the long pandemic-induced break, HANNOVER MESSE runs in April 2022 as a face-to-face event. “We are facing the greatest transformation since industrialization –into (…)

Emerson today introduced the ASCO Series 062 Rocker Isolation Valve designed especially for today´s most demanding fluid control manifolds in the clinical laboratory such as hematology and immunoassay analyzers, sample preparation and pre-analytical, as well as DNA sequencing instruments. The valves designed with 16mm compact size allows for easy integration into complex fluid-handling manifolds, resulting in a reduction in footprint, weight and power. It also offers two-way and three-way (…)

New MD7 system from Leuze makes automation easier: IO-Link master, hubs and sensors enable high-performance systems to be implemented in the smart factoryEasy integration, flexible expansion and transparent data and processes at all times: The new MD7 system from Leuze enables powerful automation. The new MD7 system from Leuze enables powerful automation. It is easy to integrate: IO-Link hubs are a cost-effective way for users to integrate additional digital sensors into the system as (…)

On October 15th, the first site-planning phase for AMB 2022 began. The project team is now reviewing the applications received and drawing up the first stand placement proposals. "It’s fantastic: the industry has firmly marked AMB 2022 in the trade show calendar and we can already report over 940 registrations for the next event. Together with exhibitors, we will design the best platform for all users of metal cutting technology from all over Europe next year to enable direct dialog and (…)

It doesn´t take long to find videos of springs being manufactured. The process is almost hypnotic as a series of carefully choreographed motions bend, twist, and form wire into tension, torsion, and compression springs. The equipment used to form these essential metal parts, which are integrated into everything from beds and doors to cars and home appliances, requires significant investment. Hence, when a spring former shows signs of aging, retrofitting to a more modern CNC-controlled system (…)

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has been known for its unique competencies in the measurement and control technology for many years. Bürkert´s components and systems have helped clients to successfully measure and dose smallest amounts of liquids all around the world and in virtually all industries. The exact dosing of small amounts for liquids is also the realm of ReseaTech, which was founded as a spin-off of the University of Applied Sciences Bern in 2015. The start-up company is a leader (…)

With more than 2,000 visitors from Germany and neighboring European Union countries, parts2clean restarted successfully after the pandemic-induced break. Approximately 130 exhibiting companies, one in five of them from outside Germany, presented new products and solutions for a wide variety of industry applications at the meeting point for parts and surface cleaning. parts2clean in Stuttgart demonstrated the increasing importance of cleaning processes in the age of Industrie 4.0 and AI. (…)

Founded in 2011, Alleantia is a leader for its plug & play software solutions applied to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The integration of the Alleantia IIoT with the TeamViewer IoT suite with the AR applications available in the prestigious TeamViewer suite (Frontline and Viscopic), presented to visitors of EMO 2021, allows to connect, Plug&Play, to the cloud industrial machines of any application compartment in order to monitor, analyze and program them easily, from (…)