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.
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.
UPDATE: Due to organizational reasons, the forum is unfortunately cancelled this year.
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.
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.
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.
Macnica ATD Europe will hold a conference with daily presentations in room W1 (Congress West) during Vision 2021.
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.
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.
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.
Applying mechanical strain on an atomically thin, transparent monolayer semiconductor results in a material with an almost total light-emission efficiency.
With its vision installation solutions, the specialist for decentralized automation technology offers customized solutions for industrial image processing.
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.
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).
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.
Optisense, expert in contactless coating thickness measurement, is further expanding its proximity to customers and enlarging its sales team: Sascha Schmidt, who has been responsible for hand-held measuring devices since recently, and Patrick Voos, who now strengthens the field sales team for industrial measuring solutions, are on board.
The organization’s mission has stayed substantially on the same course its charter members envisioned over a century ago. The significance of the field, the expertise of the OSA founders, and the dedication of those who followed enabled the society to become a global forum for light science and technology.
The perfect preparation for a visit to Vision 2021 includes a comprehensive preview report with all the essential information on the machine vision trade show, as well as the product highlights and trade show news. The links within the text lead to the respective sections, which are regularly updated and thus always have something new to offer. And don't forget: Free trade show tickes are available with the code "inspect-is-visionary".
Intel RealSense has decided to refocus their business model and, in doing so, have discontinued their L515 lidar and the facial authentication (FA) product lines to focus on their existing D400 series stereo vision product line.
Senswork, a manufacturer of optical inspection systems, is looking to better serve the US market and recently opened a subsidiary, Senswork Inc. in Johnson City, Tennessee.
The order books in mechanical and plant engineering have filled well, at the same time many companies are struggling with increasing material and delivery bottlenecks. In particular, the scarcity of electrotechnical and electronic components has increased dramatically.
Raptor Photonics was set up in September 2006 to design and manufacture high-performance cameras for a range of markets including scientific, surveillance, aerospace and industrial. The company has grown year on year and now sells cameras in over 50 countries around the world to a range of instrumentation companies, government bodies, research labs and universities.
The Industrial Vision Days are at the center of the supporting program of Vision 2021. At the world's largest forum for machine vision, organized by VDMA Machine Vision, the innovations and new developments in the industry will be presented and current trends discussed. Overall, the lecture program offers everything around the topics of cameras, optics and lighting, 3D, hyperspectral, embedded vision, software & deep learning, as well as standards, applications and start-ups. In addition, there will be two panel discussions on the first and last day of the trade fair.
The Renault Group was one of the first car manufacturers to look at the recycling of batteries for electric vehicles. For more than a year now, the Renault Group has been working with Nidec ASI, the parent company of the Nidec Group's business platform Nidec Industrial Solutions and one of the groups that are committed to an economic upswing with a view to greater sustainability to develop a comprehensive pilot project in the field of stationary energy storage.
Alexey Chernikov was appointed the new W3 professor of ultrafast microscopy and photonics established by the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter at TU Dresden. The 38-year-old scientist pursues the goal to make ultrafast quantum mechanical quasiparticles visible in atomically thin nanocrystals.
Synova, inventor of laser microjet cutting, has opened its new 6,100 square foot, state-of-the-art facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
LPKF has developed a special solution for depaneling and IMS processing that involves cutting of the printed circuit boards by a powerful laser. The laser brings with it several advantages and is thus more than just an economically attractive alternative to mechanical depaneling processes.
On September 10, 2021, Dr Ana Gonzalez joined iPronics Programmable Photonics as director of strategic partnerships. In this role, she will be responsible for all sales and service activities building strong relationships with clients and strategic partners, closely working together to achieve long term goals and objectives.
‘Eco-friendly’ LED streetlights are even more harmful for insect populations than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a new study has shown.
On the 24th of August, the Photonics Finland spring-meeting elected the new board for upcoming two years, including a new chairman and deputy chairman. For equal and smooth decision making, every two years the chairman position changes between academia and industry. Now previous chairman Timo Vuorenpää from Senop handed over the position to Juha Toivonen from the University of Tampere.
Resonon has released the Pika NUV2, the only ultraviolet plus visible hyperspectral camera available commercially. It will be an essential tool for advanced research, industrial vision systems, remote sensing, and many other hyperspectral imaging applications.
UV technologies can be used in a wide variety of ways and open up possibilities for innovative and environmentally friendly solutions. In times of the Corona pandemic, it becomes particularly clear what contribution they can make. The association “Advanced UV for Life e.V. – Association for the Promotion of UV Semiconductor Technologies” is therefore committed to the goal of rapidly advancing such technological solutions and transferring them from research to application.
The Phabulous Pilot Line Association, the new European one-stop-shop for the manufacturing of free-form micro-optics, has recently hired Jessica van Heck as new head of business and sales. With this high-level strategic hiring, the pilot line front office is now fully operational and ready to offer accelerated innovation and production cycles from prototyping to piloting up to large volume production.
Excelitas has fully acquired Kelheim-based PCO AG with effect from September 3, 2021. The company was founded in 1987 by Dr. Emil Ott, who has now sold 100 percent of the shares to Excelitas.
Aerotech, manufacturer of motion control and positioning systems, has established a new subsidiary, Peak Metrology. The aim is to bundle all activities relating to high-precision metrology.
