
Peter Voss new Managing Director at ASAM
Dr Klaus Estenfeld remains as Executive Advisor, and Executive Director of ASAM Japan

Dr Klaus Estenfeld remains as Executive Advisor, and Executive Director of ASAM Japan

Unique conference covering the wide range of UV LED topics

New on-chip device for detecting electric-field waveforms with attosecond time resolution.
System automatically prevents car accidents and reduces casualties

The application phase for the inspect award 2022 has begun. All machine vision and optical metrology companies are invited to submit their products. The deadline is May 14, 2021.

Ultrasmall multiplexer will effectively manage terahertz waves.


Creaform has appointed Pierre Tanguy as the new sales manager for the DACH region. He is taking over sales management from Stefan Hoheisel, who has been responsible for direct sales countries in EMEA as Direct Sales Manager EMEA since last summer.

A first lidar-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles.

New head of international sales for industry specialists InnoLas Solutions and L-TRIS

L3-HAPLS, the world’s highest-average-power petawatt laser system, reached a major milestone.

As part of the Spot research project, Fraunhofer IPM is working with partners to develop an optical inline measurement system that evaluates and adapts itself largely autonomously with regard to the respective component and the associated inspection requirements on an AI basis.

Sales at sensor manufacturer Sick did fall by 2.9 percent to 1.7 billion euros in 2020. However, the Black Forest company is pleased that the decline was not more severe in view of the Corona pandemic and the significantly greater slump in mechanical engineering production overall.


Like the EMVA Business Conference, this year's General Assembly will take place in virtual space. In this context, the members will elect the new EMVA Board on the afternoon of June 1, 2021.

Hamamatsu Photonics gave the go-ahead on April 20, 2021, for a new building on the factory premises in Joko, Hamamatsu City, Japan. From June 2022, image measurement devices are to be manufactured in it. In addition, this expansion will create space for higher production of semiconductor failure analysis systems.

The quality management system of Effilux, manufacturer of lighting for machine vision applications, successfully passed ISO 9001:2015 certification in March 2021.

Trend-setting technology and a team driven by the mission of accelerating the advancement of optical technologies

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How do you get an infrared camera ready for thermal process optimization? Andreas Buringa knows. He is Senior Product Manager Thermal Imaging at Automation Technology and explains the simple steps in just a few minutes. Register now for free.

Guy Ear promoted to chairman of the US board, continues to head OptoSigma Europe

In the so-called IQ Lab, Framos offers sensor-specific tuning to increase image quality on the Nvidia Jetson platform.

Issue No. 1/2021 of inspect international is out now. The Cover Story, written by Richard Laepple for Volume Graphics, is about intelligent quality assurance for automotive batteries. Computed tomography detects defects in modern lithium-ion batteries. Another main topic of this issue is artificial intelligence in machine vision. Don't miss it, just read it.

Realization of a three-node remote quantum network based on solid-state spin qubits coupled by photons

On August 1, 2021, Dr. Stefan Häberle will become Chairman of the Management Board of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. He succeeds Hellmuth Aeugle, who is retiring. Häberle will thus lead the subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG together with Dr. Bernhardt Ohnesorge.

If you believe the pure numbers, the Hannover Messe Digital Edition from April 12 to 16, 2021 was a complete success: 90,000 registrations, 10,500 products from 1,800 exhibitors. In addition, the conference program featured 1,500 speakers who spoke about digitization, supply chain management, lightweight construction or hydrogen and electromobility. However, technical discussions that did not take place are less easy to count. Of course, the organizer also knows that these were missing out.

Omron Electronic Components Europe has appointed Tomonori Morimura as the new Chief Operating Officer with full responsibility for business in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia. His new activity, based in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, began in early April 2021.

Technology for Medical Devices fair 2021 cancelled at the request of the industry


Effective April 8, 2021, VMT and Espace 6D GmbH will work under one roof. The company, which previously operated independently within the Pepper+Fuchs Group, is headquartered in Herten and specializes in mobile three-dimensional measurement technology and the digitization of industrial and robotic systems.

New switch that uses existing fabrication method is a step toward integration in data networks.

ALOhybrid system offers new opportunities, especially for job shop production

New method to create more efficient, next-gen LEDs covering the entire visible spectrum.

European Photonics Industry Consortium conducted its Annual General Meeting on 15 April

In March 2021, Cretec Cybernetics, solution provider for quality assurance, established its second foreign subsidiary in Turkey.