News

Photo

IAI opens new showroom

IAI Industrieroboter will open a new showroom in the office in Schwalbach am Taunus on November 10, 2021. From this day on, all electrical automation components from IAI can be viewed in person near Frankfurt Airport. In addition, this new showroom will also serve as a training center in the future to test the actuators and robot systems in practice and to learn their perfect integration and programming in training courses.

Photo

New designs for all-optical computation

An all-optical processor uses spatially-engineered diffractive surfaces in manipulating optical waves and computes any desired linear transform as the light passes through a series of diffractive surfaces.

Photo

Quantum dots enable infrared lasing

A solution-processed laser comprising PbS colloidal quantum dots integrated on a distributed feedback cavity, with tunable lasing wavelength from 1.55 μm to 1.65 μm.

Photo

Full color LEDs cut down to size

The scientists observed very high output power of 1.76 milliwatts from each square millimeter on the device’s surface – a notable improvement on previous devices.

Photo

A fiber-to-SiPh PIC coupling solution

Created using the company’s proprietary high-speed laser writing technique, the solution is designed to overcome fiber-to-SiPh photonic integrated circuit (PIC) coupling challenges to enable high volume automated assembly and help drive down costs.

Photo

New camera detects solar panel defects better

An all-weather imaging system works in any lighting conditions and uses an InGaAs detector with a very high frame rate to acquire a sequence of images of the solar panels as the electric current is applied.

Photo

‘Life-ready AI’ for 3D industrial vision

Framos and GrAI Matter Labs (GML), a pioneer of brain-inspired ultralow latency computing solutions, have united at Vision 2021 to create ‘life-ready artificial intelligence’ for industrial vision platforms.

Photo

Omron redesigns automation center in Barcelona

What will the production hall of the future look like? Interested parties can now get the answer in the redesigned Omron Automation Center Barcelona. Visitors can experience Omron's automation solutions live on site, including robotics, quality control, flexible manufacturing and artificial intelligence. In addition, they learn how to adapt their company to changing requirements.

Photo

In memoriam Valentin Gapontsev

Valentin P. Gapontsev, PhD, was an accomplished entrepreneur in addition to being a recognized scientist and inventor. He passed away on October 22nd, after reportedly having battled cancer.

Photo

Forcing photons to never bounce back

New discovery based on topological insulators paves the way to a new generation of high-frequency circuits and extremely robust, compact communication devices.

Photo

Vision & Control turns 30 years

Vision & Control is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. As early as the mid-1980s, its later founder and managing director, Dr. Jürgen Geffe and his team developed an automatic optical control system for industrial production. The great success with the smart camera “ILK02” led to the founding of the company in 1991.

Photo

Clean air at all times

Metal processing with lasers and plasma releases many different pollutants into the ambient air. Together with industry partners, the Fraunhofer IWS has developed a system that efficiently removes these substances from the air. The filter can be adapted to the various materials and substances released in each case. In the future, the technology will be used in other applications, such as additive manufacturing.

Photo

“Image analysis for everyone”

A multinational team from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Francis Crick Institute in London and PoL scientists in Dresden will develop solutions for distributed, accelerated image analysis that is accessible to end-users without programming experience.

Photo

New managing directors of Ebm-Papst introduced

Dr. Klaus Geißdörfer (47) takes over the chairmanship of the management of the Ebm-Papst Group with headquarters in Mulfingen (Baden-Württemberg). Thomas Wagner (62) takes over the position of deputy again after interim management of the company and as planned in advance. He is supposed to support Geißdörfer with the induction and, in his function as COO, actively accompany the ongoing strategy and transformation process.

Photo

Fraunhofer Vision organizes seminar on surface testing

With the seminar "Inspection and characterization of surfaces with machine vision" on December 1 and 2, 2021 at the Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe, the Fraunhofer Vision division is continuing its series of seminars. The practical seminar imparts specialist knowledge of the technology of surface inspection and provides information about its possible uses in industrial quality assurance.

Photo

Tiny lasers acting together as one

Israeli and German researchers have developed a way to force an array of vertical cavity lasers to act together as a single laser – a highly effective laser network the size of a grain of sand.

Photo

Klaus Fiedler named as LPKF’s new CEO

Dr Klaus Fiedler will become the new chief executive officer of LPKF Laser & Electronics AG. The supervisory board of the SDAX-listed technology company has appointed the 50-year-old top man-ager to join CFO Christian Witt in the management board, effective 1 April 2022 or earlier, with a three-year contract term.

Photo

SPS 2021: Organizer relies on 3G rule

Taking into account the current Corona regulation of the Bavarian state government, the SPS will take place from November 23-25, 2021 in Nuremberg as a so-called 3G plus event. Fully vaccinated and convalescent people as well as people with a negative PCR test that is no more than 48 hours old are allowed to participate. This regulation enables a largely unrestricted trade fair experience with maximum protection against infection.

Photo

Inpotron doubles production

Inpotron is expanding production at its headquarters. The power supply specialists are reacting to the increased demand for their products and want to systematically counteract delivery bottlenecks. An agile company structure should ensure dynamic growth. A 100 percent increase in sales to 48 million euros is planned by 2028.

Photo

Thorne Lietz joins InnoLas Solutions

In September, Thorne Lietz joined the electronics team at InnoLas Solutions as senior sales manager. For 25 years, he held various positions at LPKF Laser & Electronics.

1521 more News

Award

AutomationsBest Award

AutomationsBest Award

The AutomationsBest Award is now entering its 3rd round. The award will be presented at SPS - Smart Production Solutions on 25 November 2025