Fisba expands its presence in Asia
Dynotech Instruments, now representing the St Gallen optics company, is a distributor for the world's leading manufacturers and specializes in the laser, photonics, and semiconductor industries.
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MVTec opens its own educational institution
A new MVTec Academy should make it easier to get started with industrial image processing.
3D printing with an NIR light source
New method uses the NIR invisibility windows of materials to print at a depth of over 5 centimeters.
Trumpf Photonic Components with new Managing Director
Dr Thomas Dobbertin succeeds Dr Berthold Schmidt, who becomes chief technology officer and member of the managing board of the Trumpf group.
Resolve Optics has opened a new Vibration Test Center
In the new vibration test center, the in-house lens test devices are primarily tested.
Macnica ATD Europe announces distribution partnership with Asus AIoT
Macnica ATD Europe now offers sales and service support for the Asus IoT's AI Focused Solutions.
Humboldt Professorship awarded to F. Ömer Ilday
Expert for ultrafast laser technology establishes a materials science research center at Ruhr University, Germany.
AI-based workflow for confocal microscopy automates the detection of rare events
Leica Microsystems, an expert in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has launched an autonomous microscopy package.
New low-cost material for IR lenses
An entirely new polymer material made from sulfur and cyclopentadiene.
New titanium alloys made using 3D printing
A promising way to a new class of more sustainable high-performance titanium alloys.
Automate trade show changes in annual rhythm
After the very successful Automate in Detroit with over 30,000 visitors and 757 exhibitors, the organizer, A3, has decided that the automation trade show will henceforth be held annually.
A Fresnel time lens could improve quantum information transport
New approach makes quantum information transmission dozens of times faster.
AMD extends production of Spartan 6
AMD has extended support for Spartan 6 FPGAs until at least 2030. All speed and temperature degrees are included.
KEB America opens sales office in Ontario
KEB America, a subsidiary of KEB Automation KG and a North American provider of motion and industrial automation solutions, has opened a branch in Oakville, Ontario.
AMA elects new board
The general assembly of the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement Technology (AMA) has elected its board for the next two years as scheduled.
A laser welding with head seam-tracking technology
Coherent introduces Hightactile, a laser processing head with a patent-pending seam-tracking technology that is easily configurable to perform automated fillet welding and brazing.
The world’s fastest industry standard optical fiber
The fiber contains 19 cores and can be adopted without massive infrastructure change.
Tuning density waves with photons
In an optical cavity atoms collectively organize into a density wave pattern.
Zeiss starts sales partnership in the software sector
Zeiss enters into a partnership with Scantech for the distribution of its 3D inspection software
Robot sales in North America up 12 percent
The North American robotics market has seen strong growth, with manufacturing installations up 12 percent, reaching a total of 41,624 units in 2022.
Fraunhofer IIS working group for supply chain services at Automatica 2023
The "Data Efficient Automated Learning" group of the Fraunhofer IIS working group for supply chain services will present its portfolio on the topic of efficiency of artificial intelligence (AI) at automatica
Photonic filter separates signals from noise
Multifunctional filter could support future 6G wireless communication.
Prima Industrie sells laser business unit to Lumibird
Convergent Photonics focused on the development and production of both industrial and medical diodes and laser sources.
Markus Clement is new CEO of EMAG
Previous CEO of EMAG China and an employee for 24 years now heads the group.
New building blocks for photonic quantum simulators
Single photon light sources are coupled to specially designed integrated photonic circuits.
New board of directors
Elections at the VDMA Working Group Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing.
Mitsubishi and Coherent collaborate on SiC manufacturing
Companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on manufacturing of silicon carbide power electronics for electric vehicles on a 200-millimeter technology platform.
Boost for the quantum internet
First long-distance quantum repeater node for telecommunication networks.
Symmetric graphene quantum dots for future qubits
Double quantum dots with a nearly perfect electron-hole-symmetry for a robust read-out mechanism.
Phytec strengthens management
Phytec has appointed Marcus Lickes as an additional managing director.
Laser diode generates random numbers
DTU spin-out company develops quantum mechanical random number generator that must be reduced to chip size to be included in the electronics in mobile phones.
Lynred breaks ground on new €85M industrial site
Company’s production capacity set to undergo 50 % increase by 2025; 100 % by 2030.
