Bringing IT and OT together - that is the goal of camera manufacturer Basler by joining the "5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation". The company is the first from the machine vision sector to support the initiative.
The MVTec Innovation Day 2022 is cancelled. There will also be no virtual replacement for the event planned for February 8 and 9. The reason is the pandemic situation.
Effective December 20th, 2021, the engineer has assumed the position of CEO at Z-Laser, the German manufacturer of laser sources for innovative customer applications.
To advance Europe’s competitiveness and support advanced technical developments, the European Commission is providing 3 million euros of funding to early adopters of the Phabulous pilot line services for the implementation and integration of free-form micro-optical components.
The managing directors of Photonics BW and Bayern Photonics were appointed as board members of OptecNet Deutschland at the recent general meeting.
At the beginning of April, after 30 years, Eugen Dumitrescu is leaving the management of the Wedel-based company and handing over responsibility to a new, extended management team.
The combination of solitons increases the color range of the emitted light from the microresonators.
New approach offers a analysis tool for high-throughput screening, a method to analyze vast libraries of chemical compounds.
The two companies intend to accelerate the development of future automated driving technologies for passenger cars. A central component of this is the optimal access to new technologies and global competencies.
A European consortium is developing a new process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products like methane gas and methanol liquid fuel.
Kuka and Ford Otosan in Turkey have signed a new framework agreement to supply more than 700 robots for Ford's next-generation electric and connected commercial vehicle projects at Ford's Kocaeli plants. The contract continues the partnership between the two companies that has lasted for more than 20 years.
The automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Melior Motion GmbH. With the acquisition of the supplier of precision gears for robotics, the Schaeffler Group is expanding the portfolio in the field of robotics in its Industrial division.
The provider of high power and high brightness industrial blue lasers has raised additional growth capital at a valuation of approximately 350 million dollars. The company has also brought on experienced technology executive, Brian Faircloth, as chief operating officer, and promoted Andrew Dodd to vice president of global sales to boost commercialization efforts for its revolutionary industrial blue laser technology.
The photonic assembly service provider Phix builds on Nanoscribe’s high-performance 3D printing solution with alignment capabilities to offer 3D-printed standard lensed fiber arrays.
A simple but powerful approach uses very sensitive photon pairs and holds promise for applications that can achieve high measurement precisions.
Quantum technologies are a focus of research worldwide, and an indispensable tool for exploring underlying phenomena used in imaging research for the scientific development of quantum communication systems. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has now approved two major instrumentation initiatives to address such applications.
Michael Weyrich has taken over the chairmanship of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA). He succeeds Atilla Bilgic, who was chairman of the GMA from 2018 to 2021.
Managing director of Mahr Group to represent the European technology platform for photonics for the next years.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen and Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik from Ditzingen have signed a cooperation agreement. They want to collaborate more closely in the field of laser material deposition and accelerate the transfer of the technology to industry.
New device is based on upconversion transition associated with triplet–triplet annihilation that doubles the energy of excited states.
Photometrics, a division of Teledyne Technologies, engaged in a strategic partnership with Swiss image compression solutions provider Dotphoton that will enable robust storage of the large amounts of images generated by scientific imaging using integrated combinations of products from the two companies.
The new sensor – made by KIST researchers – can detect near-infrared light, as well as previously undetectable visible light, opening up new opportunities in various fields.
For the 17th time in a row, the independent Top Employers Institute from Amsterdam has awarded Lenze the best employer in Germany as part of an extensive certification process. The automation company based in Hamelin feels that the certificate confirms that it can offer its employees good working conditions.
Hartmut Schubert was appointed by the management board of 3D-Micromac AG to the position of chief technology officer effective January 2022. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic management of the company’s technology division.
Seven universities and research institutions as well as Vanguard Automation GmbH employ a measurement-based quantum computing approach in the BMBF project PhotonQ.
The next Hanover Fair will be held from May 30th to June 2nd. With this, Deutsche Messe AG wants to react to the current pandemic situation and create planning security for exhibitors and visitors.
Next Scan Technology (NST), which was acquired in 2015, now operates as Scanlab BV and was integrated into the Scanlab Group based in Puchheim at the beginning of the year. The group also takes over marketing, sales and customer service.
New optical device can handle 24-bit RBG and 8-bit IR images simultaneously and independently.
With Covid-19, tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. A national network of eight companies and non-university research institutions wants to counter this with the help of photonics.
The Strathclyde-based Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) is to receive £6.5m over the next five years from the Scottish Government.
The Supervisory Board of Lapp Holding appointed Dr. Christoph Hiller (56) appointed to the Management Board for Sales & Marketing. He takes over the area of responsibility from Andreas Lapp, CEO of Lapp Holding AG, who had taken over this task on an interim basis.
The countdown is running: submission of abstracts for the 12th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2022] closes on January 24, 2022.
Hesai and Lumentum launched a partnership to combine their lidar and VCSEL expertise on the development of hybrid solid-state directional lidar solutions for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).
Schneider Electric scores well in the area of environment, social affairs and corporate governance (ESG or Environmental Social Governance). This emerges from the 2021 ratings, which were awarded by independent and renowned experts for corporate sustainability.
With their new instrument, University of California researchers achieve a large field of view up to 25 square millimeters to provide subcellular resolution of multiple areas of the brain.
