SmartRay, the leading manufacturer of 3D sensors for quality inspection and measuring technology, has launched a new addition to its highly successful ECCO sensor family, optimally balanced for the diverse application requirements of consumer electronics manufacturing. Delivering high-speed 3D scanning performance in an economical and compact design, ECCO 95.020 provides an ultra-high resolution and superior 3D image quality that ensures faster production lines and throughput. Utilising (…)

Dyna Contact accurately identifies spindle damage and incorrect angles for superior machining results. Big Kaiser, a global leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions for the metalworking industries, announces the Dyna Contact, a ceramic taper gauge that now makes it very easy to inspect machine spindle tapers at a glance. The Dyna Contact taper gauge can be used to visually check the contact between the gauge and the spindle to quickly and easily determine the (…)

Laser Induced Deep Etching (LIDE) for thin glass opens new perspectives. "With the new LIDE precision process, we are enabling microsystems technology to exploit the full potential of glass," explained Dr. Roman Ostholt, Vice President LIDE at LPKF, in a presentation at the 3D Systems Summit 2019 in Dresden, Germany. The examples ranged from through glass vias to glass embedding and glass capping solutions with almost vertical walls. Glass substrate for embedding fan-out packages featuring (…)

Coherent Inc. has significantly expanded its Gilching, Germany micromachining and sub-system facility, and completed the relocation of the company’s laser marking group from nearby Gunding. This “Center of Excellence”, designated as Coherent Munich, will be a significant upgrade to the organization’s applications and R&D capabilities, and affirms Coherent’s commitment to the industrial materials processing and manufacturing segment. Coherent Munich’s primary focus will be (…)

T4M – Technology for Medical Devices is cooperating with advanced business events (abe), a leading organiser of one-to-one meetings in the B2B area. The new trade fair for medical technology is thus offering its exhibitors and visitors another attractive service. With a new matchmaking offer tailored to the sector, T4M and abe are bringing medical technology together in Stuttgart by specifically introducing manufacturers and suppliers to each other. Thanks to the qualified discussions (…)

DFAB HOUSE has officially opened today on the NEST building of Empa and Eawag in Dübendorf (Switzerland). It is the world’s first inhabited “house” that was not only digitally planned, but also – with the help of robots and 3D printers – built largely digitally. The construction technologies were developed by ETH Zurich researchers in collaboration with industrial partners. A delicate concrete ceiling – cast in 3D-printed formwork – and a curved concrete wall created by a construction (…)

Arburg will be present at the Industry Fair in Celje, Slovenia, from 9 to 12 April 2019. As the industry leader, Arburg has been focusing on the subject of digitalisation for many years now and has set out on the path to the digital future of plastics processing together with its customers. What this could look like will be demonstrated with a practical example for Industry 4.0: A flexibly automated turnkey system produces multiple variants of elastic tension straps cost-effectively "on (…)

Nanoscribe’s new Photonic Professional GT2 3D printers change the way to produce micro-optical components. This additive manufacturing technology enables the fabrication of ultra-precise micro-optics as polymer masters for serial production, which are needed, for instance, in mobile or augmented reality devices, for sophisticated sensors or advanced solutions in healthcare and automotive industry. At the upcoming SPIE Photonics West, the leading trade fair in optics and photonics, (…)

From March 26 through 29, INDEX Group is again inviting all existing and potential customers to its plant in Reichenbach, where it will be presenting a wide range of innovations relating to the subject of turning at the Open House 2019. Visitors will experience the new, digital INDEX world “iXworld”, which extends beyond technical functions into the service and organization field and promises swift economic benefits. More than 20 state-of-the-art turning machines can be seen in action (…)

A European project has developed the first clinically viable dexterous and sentient prosthetic hand usable in real life. This next-generation medical device heralds a breakthrough for the recovery of hand function after amputation. CSEM has contributed to the development with its ultra-low-power processing and communication technology. Despite decades of research and development on artificial limbs, amputees currently have to make do with powered prostheses based on 40-year old technology. (…)