04.10.2021 • News
3D microscopy of human organs
New method can be used to reveal previously unrecognised alterations in the pancreas, but it can also be used to study other human organs and diseases.
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01.10.2021 • News
FDA clears world’s first photon-counting CT
Siemens Healthineers announces the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510 (k) clearance of the Naeotom Alpha, the world’s first photon-counting computer tomograph. With a novel system concept and pioneering new detector technology, it ushers in a new era in computed tomography, a technology that determines the course of many medical decisions.
01.10.2021 • News
Sensor and measurement technology: sales stabilize, order situation picks up
Sensor and measurement technology recorded significant sales growth in the first quarter, while sales stabilized at plus minus zero percent in the second quarter. Incoming orders in the industry developed positively overall with an increase of eight percent. The proportion of AMA member companies that have registered short-time work is falling significantly, with only one in five companies now working on short-time work.
01.10.2021 • News
W3+ Fair: 120 exhibitors on site
On September 22nd and 23rd, 2021, the second network event for experts from optics, photonics, electronics and mechanics took place in the Dornbirn exhibition center in Austria. For many exhibitors, it was the first personal meeting with experts after the pandemic break.
01.10.2021 • News
Leoni AG sells essential components of the industrial business
Leoni sells the Industrial Solutions business group, which is part of the WCS division (Wire & Cable Solutions) and which makes up significant parts of its industrial business, to BizLink. With this, Leoni is trying to stabilize further.
01.10.2021 • News
Personnel changes at Zeiss AG
Dr. Ludwin Monz, responsible for the Zeiss Medical Technology division, is leaving at the end of the year. His successor will be Dr. Markus Weber, currently member of the Management Board of Carl Zeiss AG and responsible for the Zeiss Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology division. Andreas Pecher will be the new head of the Zeiss Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology division and a member of the Board of Management of Carl Zeiss AG.
01.10.2021 • News
ABB expands the Minden location
ABB has started building a new hall at the Minden location. The new building, a 2,500 square meter production hall for the Traction division, expands production capacities and is intended to contribute to better quality assurance.
01.10.2021 • News
Cooking with lasers
Laser based method retains more moisture, and creates an entirely new way to cook a tasty meal allowing individuals to more precisely customize their meals.
01.10.2021 • News
Positive results for EPHJ
In a delicate event context in a period of health crisis, the satisfaction and attendance indicators at the end of the EPHJ trade show are encouraging. The exhibitors were present and the exhibition recorded 12,200 entries.
30.09.2021 • News
AEMtec opens tech center in Boston
On September 1, the Berlin-based AEMtec, a manufacturer of high-precision micro and optoelectronic modules, opened its Engineering Tech Center within the Boston University Photonics Center.
29.09.2021 • News
Detecting and sorting cells in real time
With their company Sensific, three scientists from Ulm have taken an important step towards successfully founding a company.
29.09.2021 • News
Vision 2021: Panel Discussion - Is Deep Learning Just Hype?
What is the Deep Learning hype all about? This question will be discussed by five proven experts on the first day of the machine vision trade show "Vision": Dr. Dietmar Ley (Basler), Jens Hülsmann (Isra Vision), Dr. Olaf Munkelt (MVTec Software), Mark Williamson (Stemmer Imaging) and Donato Montanari (Zebra Technologies). The panel discussion will be moderated by inspect editor-in-chief David Löh.
29.09.2021 • News
Entangling photons with metasurfaces
A new method for generating quantum-entangled photon pairs employs nonlinear metasurfaces to enhance and tailor photon emissions – an important step towards creating miniaturized quantum devices for everyday applications.
28.09.2021 • News
High-volume sheet-metal cutting
New laser blanking system offers flexibility and shorter cycle times in high-volume production: the partnership with Siemens on intelligent control system eliminates tooling and assembly costs, boosts profitability, and provides material savings of up to thirty percent.
28.09.2021 • News
Vision 2021: TKH presents machine vision division TKH Vision to the public for the first time
The TKH Group combines the machine vision companies Allied Vision, Chromasens, LMI Technologies, Mikrotron, NET, SVS-Vistek and Tattile with the sales company TKH Vision Italy under the umbrella brand TKH Vision. For the first time, TKH will exhibit its machine vision companies as a group on a single stand at the Vision machine vision trade show in Stuttgart, Germany.
28.09.2021 • News
Pulsate: open call results
On 27 July 2021, the EU-funded Pulsate project announced the winners of Pulsate’s 1st Technology Transfer Experiments open call for consortia able to demonstrate an effective adoption of laser solutions by end-users in relation to laser-based advanced additive manufacturing (LBAAM) technologies.
28.09.2021 • News
TQ strengthens robotics division with additional product manager
TQ-Systems, known for its embedded vision modules, is expanding its robotics division by hiring cobot expert Dirk Thamm. He comes from a subsidiary of robot manufacturer Kuka.
28.09.2021 • News
Edmund Optics expands lighting portfolio
Edmund Optics has added eleven product lines from Advanced Illumination, a manufacturer of lighting for machine vision, to its product line.
27.09.2021 • News
World premiere for virtual laser lab “femtoPro”
Lasers are ubiquitous. Scientists from Würzburg have now developed the virtual-reality laser laboratory “femtoPro”, which simulates optical setups in real time and enables eye-safe training in the handling of short-pulse lasers.
27.09.2021 • News
Sick celebrates company anniversary
Dr. Erwin Sick founded his company in South Baden in September 1946. It is now 75 years old. At an official ceremony at the company's headquarters in Waldkirch on September 24, 2021, invited guests and companions from politics, business and science, together with the founding family Sick and the board of directors, paid tribute to the past 75 years and took a look into the future. A week earlier, employees celebrated an outdoor music and culture festival lasting several days.
27.09.2021 • News
Fraunhofer IPA is being expanded
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is getting a new building in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. With the groundbreaking ceremony on September 27, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Economic Affairs, Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, symbolically opened the construction site together with Thomas Bauernhansl, director of the Fraunhofer IPA, and the architect Stephan Birk.
27.09.2021 • News
Quantum dots without cadmium
New approach motivates future development and optimization of surface chemistry of InP CS-QDs to enable the full access and realization of their luminescence efficiency in high-color-quality cadmium-free displays.
27.09.2021 • News • Machine Vision
Evotron: "Machine Vision Forum" at Motek 2021 will take place again
UPDATE: Due to organizational reasons, the forum is unfortunately cancelled this year.
24.09.2021 • News
Yaskawa is building new European headquarters near Frankfurt
Together, Bruno Schnekenburger, CEO of Yaskawa Europe, and the mayor of the city of Hattersheim, Klaus Schindling, laid the foundation stone for Yaskawa's new European headquarters in Hattersheim am Main near Frankfurt: In a festive setting, they traditionally and symbolically built a time capsule into the foundation on September 22nd of the resulting shell. The move into the new building is planned for 2023.
24.09.2021 • News
Twisting to the light of nanoparticles
Physics researchers at the University of Bath discover a new physical effect relating to the interactions between light and twisted materials – an effect that is likely to have implications for emerging new nanotechnologies in communications, nanorobotics and ultrathin optical components.
24.09.2021 • News
Mark Williamson becomes Chairman of the Board of VDMA Machine Vision
During the general meeting of the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association, the members of the VDMA Machine Vision Division elected a new board. Mark Williamson, Managing Director of Stemmer Imaging Ltd, was subsequently elected Chairman.
24.09.2021 • News
Macnica ATD Europe with its own conference program at Vision 2021
Macnica ATD Europe will hold a conference with daily presentations in room W1 (Congress West) during Vision 2021.
23.09.2021 • News
Elfys raises €3M
Elfys is tapping into a growing demand for photodetectors with people increasingly wanting to measure their health and wellbeing. Today’s announced €3M round is dedicated to ramping up the production to match the growing demand. The lead investor on the round is Metaplanet Holdings together with the company’s earlier round’s lead Voima Ventures. Other angel investors include the founders of Oura Health, the company behind the Oura Ring.
22.09.2021 • News
Fraunhofer IPMS at the all about automation in Chemnitz
The "all about automation" is a trade fair for systems, components, software and engineering for industrial automation and communication. At the trade fair, which will take place in Chemnitz from September 22 to 23, the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS will be presenting solutions for optical wireless communication in real time using Li Fi, IP core design solutions, and innovative measurement techniques for process and quality monitoring as well as for environment sensors & environment control.
22.09.2021 • News
Excelitas opens new plant in Göttingen
Excelitas Technologies is expanding its capacities in the assembly of highly complex optomechanical systems and components for the semiconductor industry: On September 21, 2021, the photonics manufacturer opened a new plant for its subsidiary Qioptiq in Göttingen.
22.09.2021 • News
LED material shines under strain
Applying mechanical strain on an atomically thin, transparent monolayer semiconductor results in a material with an almost total light-emission efficiency.
22.09.2021 • News • Machine Vision
Murrelektronik opens up new business field for vision systems
With its vision installation solutions, the specialist for decentralized automation technology offers customized solutions for industrial image processing.
21.09.2021 • News
Seminar optical 3D metrology
The Fraunhofer Vision division is continuing the series of seminars on optical 3D metrology and is holding the seminar with an practical part “Optical 3D metrology for quality assurance in production” on Wednesday and Thursday, November 10th and 11th, 2021. The venue is the Fraunhofer Development Center for X-ray Technology EZRT in Fürth.
21.09.2021 • News
Trumpf presents new VCSEL laser platform
Trumpf Photonic Components, a provider of VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers) and photodiode solutions for the consumer electronics, data communications, industrial sensing and heating markets, has revealed the new product platform ViBO (VCSEL with integrated backside optics).
21.09.2021 • News
Wenglor takes over TPL Vision
At the end of August 2021, the Wenglor Group took over the Scottish-French company TPL Vision. The specialist, founded in 2005, will be integrated into the Wenglor Group as a division, but will continue to exist as an independent business unit.
