The machine vision and metrology company IIM appoints Jose Saiz as new sales manager for the LED lighting brand Lumimax. From the newly established sales office in Cologne, he is responsible with immediate effect for the region of Northwest Germany as well as the Benelux countries.
Basler announces an AI platform for Machine Vision based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) artificial intelligence and machine learning services. In addition to the hardware, this includes a fully integrated edge-to-cloud software stack including the AWS Panorama Device SDK.
Special light waves can penetrate even opaque materials as if the material was not even there.
As of April 1, 2021, Aries Embedded, a specialist for embedded services and products, has taken over distribution of Topic's Miami family of System-on-Modules for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The two metrology manufacturers Mitutoyo and Marposs have concluded a private label licensing agreement with global validity. Under this agreement, the two companies intend to release optical measurement solutions from each other's portfolio under their own brand in the second half of 2021.
Fraunhofer IOF announces young researcher award
The VDMA expects the machinery and plant engineering sector to make up for some of the Corona-related slump this year. The association forecasts growth in production in 2021 to plus 7 percent in real terms.
Light modulation via optical microshutter and micromirror arrays could provide huge energy savings.
Optical microresonators host quasiparticles made by two photons.
Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the photonics and new space industries
Guido Deutz has been Director Business Development at camera manufacturer Automation Technology since March 1, 2021.
Review: Laser Symposium on Electromobility LSE’21, 19 – 20 January 2021
JAI appoints Michael Lisby Jensen as its new CEO. His predecessor, Jorgen Andersen, moves to the top of the Board of Directors.
ICREA professor Jens Biegert elected Chair of the association’s General Assembly
Bionic optical sensor fits on a smartphone and is capable of hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging.
World’s smallest >200 µJ actively Q-switched UV laser, ideal for industrial manufacturing
Electroluminescence at terahertz frequencies from a silicon-germanium device.
First calibration reference materials available to companies worldwide
Zeiss opens a research and development center with associated production and customer service in Dublin, California. With this, the optics group wants to strengthen its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. It invested 180 million US dollars for this purpose. Around 700 employees will be located there.
Laserline optimizes its portfolio in the blue diode laser segment
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New device could help discover exoplanets and detect diseases.
Panasonic is expanding its activities at the Munich-Ottobrunn site: The Customer Experience Center (CXC) is now opening on the Panasonic Campus Munich. On more than 6,000 square meters, the company shows its portfolio of electro-mechanical components and systems, drives, industrial robots and pick-and-place machines for electronics manufacturing.
With immediate effect, Multiphoton Optics GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH. One of the two managing directors of Multiphoton Optics will go to the new parent company, while the other will continue to run the company on his own.
Serving the market with free-form micro-optics solution
Together with the German Industrial IT Center (CIIT), Hilscher has entered into a strategic partnership in Germany's first science-to-business center for industrial automation. The company will set up a new location with three employees in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia. The start of the cooperation between CIIT and Hilscher is planned for the middle of the year.
Basler AG has released the audited annual report for fiscal year 2020 today. In a declining market environment characterized by Covid-19 in 2020, the group‘s sales increased to Euro 170.5 million (previous year: Euro 162.0 million). Incoming orders amounted to Euro 181.6 million, and were significantly higher than the previous year’s level of Euro 166.5 million.
Transaction will advance the commercial opportunities in personal health, medtech and beyond
On April 14, 2021, the robotics, vision and motion control industry trade associations will merge to form the new Association for Advancing Automation (A3).
MINSTED resolves fluorescent molecules with resolution at the nanometer scale.
Atik Cameras signs multiple new contracts with leading global PCR manufacturers
First atomic-scale observations of how nanocrystals lose their light-producing efficiency.
Fraunhofer IAF starts project QuoAlA on AlGaAs Bragg reflection waveguides
Jenoptik has placed a promissory note loan in the amount of 400 million euros on the capital market. The additional funds are intended to enable the optics and photonics group to make acquisitions and investments in photonics.
