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Quality Is Essential in the Manufacturing of Detectors for Electron Microscopes
Mitutoyo - The company Crytur deals with the design, production and delivery of integrated optoelectronic and optomechanical assemblies. The basic parts of these products are synthetic crystals that the company produces itself. Because the products supplied by Crytur are very demanding in terms of dimensional and shape accuracy, the company is equipped with top-quality measuring machines and gauges from Mitutoyo.
BMW Group continues to invest in Additive Manufacturing and elevates the technology to the next industrial level
BMW - The BMW Group Additive Manufacturing Campus (AMC) is setting the course for the next stage of industrialization. Under the new leadership of Timo Göbel, additive manufacturing will be further integrated across all phases of the vehicle life cycle, with open-material and highly automated systems and a clear focus on quality.
Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions Introduces UltiDry Multi-Stage Roots Vacuum Pumps
Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions - Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions, a member of the global Busch Group, presents the new UltiDry multi-stage roots vacuum pumps. Designed for demanding semiconductor applications, the UltiDry combines robust performance with high energy efficiency and process flexibility.
Precision and automation in micro waterjet cutting
Mitutoyo - WatAJet – an Italian excellence in micro waterjet cutting – has transformed an academia-developed technology into a unique production process. Thanks to Mitutoyo's Quick Vision Apex, the company has revolutionised its quality control, taking precision, automation and reliability to the next level.
Introducing the SLP-2000, SuperLight Photonics’ Full-Spectrum SWIR Laser Light Source
SuperLight Photonics - SuperLight Photonics, a leading innovator in integrated laser photonic technologies, today announced the SLP-2000, a compact full-spectrum SWIR supercontinuum laser that expands the company’s broadband light-source portfolio.
USP laser structures and polishes hard material components in a single clamping operation
Fraunhofer - Tools made of hard materials and ceramics such as tungsten carbide are particularly wear-resistant. However, the tools used to manufacture them wear out all the faster – unless the tool is laser light. Researchers at Fraunhofer ILT have developed a process chain in which hard material components can be shaped and polished using an ultrashort pulse (USP) laser without changing the clamping setup.
Flexible beam-shaping platform optimizes LPBF processes
Fraunhofer - A new approach to beam shaping will soon make additive manufacturing more flexible and efficient: Fraunhofer ILT has developed a new platform that can be used to individually optimize laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes. Customized beam profiles improve component quality, reduce material losses and enable previously impossible scaling of the build-up rate of the single beam process.
Additive Manufacturing in the throes of technological change
Fraunhofer - Additive Manufacturing, particularly metal 3D printing, has evolved from a promising technology to a serious constituent of industrial production. Industries such as plant engineering, aerospace, automotive and metalworking are facing a technological transformation that could have far-reaching implications for design, production and sustainability.
Endeavor 3D Integrates Materialise CO-AM with HP Technology to Drive Industrial Volume Production
Materialise - Endeavor 3D, a leading contract manufacturer of additive manufacturing, has announced its strategic relationship with Materialise and HP to onboard the Materialise CO-AM Software Platform to bolster its HP 3D printer production capacity. This relationship marks a significant milestone in Endeavor 3D's commitment to meeting the rising demand of industrial volume production with 3D printing, particularly in highly regulated and demanding industries.
Materialise and Renishaw Announce Partnership to Increase Efficiency of Metal 3D Printing
Materialise - Renishaw’s innovative scanning algorithms combined with Materialise’s accelerated build processors shorten production time. Seamless workflow integration and customizable print parameters at the part level enhance control and productivity.
Door opener to hydraulic expansion technology
Schunk - For a long time now, users in metalworking have been won over by the benefits of hydraulic expansion technology in toolholders: Tools are clamped via a hydraulic mechanism where, on inserting a screw, the internal pressure medium is compressed and the expansion sleeve elastically deformed. In this way, the tool shank is tightly enclosed. The high tension ensures absolutely secure holding of the tool and precise run-out accuracy of less than 0.003 mm.
Integrated Sensor Technology: The Next Step in Additive Manufacturing
Fraunhofer - The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT will be presenting the latest research results in additive manufacturing technology at the Fraunhofer joint stand at formnext in Frankfurt am Main from November 7 to 10, 2023. Among other things, the Aachen engineers will be showing additively manufactured sensors that are printed directly onto components and that can provide real-time data for predictive maintenance.
Support-free 3D printing opens up new applications and reduces waste
Trumpf - High-tech company TRUMPF recently made improvements to its 3D printing software TruTops Print. Users can now print parts with extreme overhang angles as low as 15 degrees without requiring support structures. TRUMPF will be showcasing its new technology at EMO, the world’s leading trade fair for production technology, which will be taking place in Hannover, Germany.
Heat-resistant ceramic ink for data codes on metal components
Fraunhofer - Fraunhofer researchers have developed an extremely heat-resistant ceramic-based ink. For the first time, this enables metal components processed in the automotive industry at temperatures over 1,000 ºC to be marked with a code. The code can be scanned and is linked to a database in which all the manufacturing parameters for the component in question are stored.
Intuitive touchscreen with high electromagnetic noise immunity
SECO Northern Europe - Orbital welders, such as those supplied by Orbitalum Tools, use several thousand volts to ignite a TIG arc, which can cause electromagnetic phenomena that endanger the functional safety of the welding machines. This places high demands on intuitive touch panel PCs, which Orbitalum Tools now uses in its latest orbital welders. A panel PC with enhanced noise immunity prevents operational anomalies.
Materialise Empowers Control of the 3D Printing Process
Materialise - Materialise, a global leader in 3D printing software and service solutions, announced its Process Control software for metal 3D printing and introduced the Build Processor Software Development Kit (BP SDK). The new solutions enable additive manufacturing (AM) users to take full control of the 3D printing process by using automated quality control and customizing their 3D printer parameters.
Laser technology makes the automotive industry more environmentally friendly
Trumpf - TRUMPF has developed solutions that enable the automotive industry to avoid chemical cleaning processes. Laser technology thus ensures much more environmentally friendly production when cleaning car body parts. "The automotive industry wants to say goodbye to environmentally harmful chemical processes, which are used primarily for cleaning components. With our short pulse lasers, we can make a decisive contribution to sustainable production."
Quickparts Adopts Materialise CO-AM Software Platform
Materialise - Quickparts, a global leader in on-demand industrial production services, has partnered with Materialise, a global leader in 3D printing solutions, to leverage the CO-AM platform to manage their distributed manufacturing flows. The platform will support Quickparts’ traditional and additive manufacturing (AM) capacities and connect to existing production systems.
TRUMPF prints copper in large format for the first time with a green laser
Trumpf - Large copper components can now be processed on 3D printers from TRUMPF as easily as common 3D printing materials such as stainless steel. The high-tech company has equipped its largest 3D printer, the TruPrint 5000, with the green laser for the first time for this purpose.
When a laser collar tames the arc
Fraunhofer - An example of hybrid technology in its purest form has been developed and built by the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT for the DVS research project “KoaxHybrid.” In Aachen, the institute engineers have developed a new optical system with glass substrates and an arc torch which unites metal shielding gas (MSG) welding and laser material deposition with an annular beam, thus creating a completely new process.
