21.08.2025 • News
Mitutoyo and Nemera are working more closely together
The partnership with Mitutoyo enables Nemera to standardize measurement technology software and hardware at all locations worldwide.
automotive industry
21.08.2025 • News
Jumo focuses on sustainability and energy efficiency
Jumo has received EMAS certification, an important EU environmental management certificate that goes beyond ISO 14001.
23.05.2025 • News
Safety requirements for autonomous mobility
The TÜV Association is calling for clear rules on AI, data access, and cybersecurity to ensure that autonomous vehicles can be safely integrated into traffic.
09.05.2025 • News
Increasing automation in the US automotive industry
In the US automotive industry, the installation of industrial robots rose by 10.7% to 13,700 units in 2024, according to preliminary results from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
22.04.2025 • News
Infineon and Marelli enter new era of cockpit design
MEMS laser beam scanning for an immersive car display experience.
04.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
From raw material processing to recycling
Battery production is at the heart of industrial and climate policy worldwide. Indeed, the demand for energy storage systems for electromobility and stationary applications is growing globally as is the importance of efficient, sustainable and regionally independent battery production.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Reinventing laser processing for EVs
Coherent’s Thomas Hofmeister and Majid Abbasi discuss how lasers have played a key role in the transformation of manufacturing in the automotive industry in a new PhotonicsViews article.
01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Process and product innovation in electric mobility enabled by photonics
At Politecnico di Milano, the Laboratory for Laser Applications, SITEC, looks towards the development of new processes enabling new products and solutions for electric mobility exploiting the increased availability of laser-based manufacturing solutions in the industry.
19.03.2025 • News
Focus on battery cell and pack production for electric mobility
At the upcoming Hannover Messe, eleven companies jointly present the ‘Battery Cell Production’ project
11.02.2025 • Contributions • Machine Vision
Manufacturing Data Platform Showcases Smart Factory Automation
Increasing Efficiency in Production
05.02.2025 • Contributions • Photonics
Solutions for wire and busbar stripping
A new early view article in PhotonicsViews discusses challenges for busbars in mass production, and high-speed CO₂ laser busbar de-coating methods.
29.01.2025 • News
Keysight partners with KD
Collaboration delivers TDFOM measurement and signal metric analysis for next-generation automotive networks, driving industry-wide standardization and interoperability.
04.12.2024 • News
Hexagon partners with Seat
Cooperation to transform manufacturing efficiency and accelerate the industrialization of new cars.
27.11.2024 • News
Zeiss and Tesa are cooperating on holography
Since 2022, the two companies have been working together successfully in the fields of holography and customized adhesive solutions.
08.08.2024 • News
Global experts gather to advance laser-based manufacturing for e-mobility
Review: LaserEMobility Workshop 2024, 17 – 18 July 2024, Garching near Munich, Germany.
05.08.2024 • News
On-the-fly laser welding for more efficient, lower-cost production
Blackbird’s open house event attests to robust industry interest.
24.07.2024 • News
Optosurf becomes part of the Mahr Group
The global provider of dimensional metrology solutions Mahr today announced the acquisition of OptoSurf GmbH
22.07.2024 • News
Next-gen photonic scanner-detector chip unveiled
The new samples will be available from Scantinel for customers in Q4 2024.
15.07.2024 • News
Lasers with artificial intelligence
Trumpf and Sima-AI agree on strategic partnership.
11.07.2024 • News
Approaching Shannon’s Limit: KDPOF becomes KD
The opening of the new prototyping laboratory and assembly and test plant in Tres Cantos, Madrid, was accompanied by a rebranding.
10.07.2024 • News
An improved cutting process for battery separator foils with CO₂ lasers
Laser manufacturer Luxinar is highlighting the benefits of laser cutting battery separator foils at the LaserEMobility Workshop.
21.06.2024 • News
“Next-generation photonic sensor systems for transformative impact in automotive, agriculture, and healthcare”
EU-funded project aims to create a holistic framework for the development of next-generation hardware and software solutions, including innovative lidar solutions and CMOS imaging technologies.
20.06.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry
Experts from Lessmueller Lasertechnik discuss the advantages to extend the use of OCT – as known from laser welding – to classical GMAW in an early view article of PhotonicsViews.
13.06.2024 • News
The future, made in Stuttgart – preparations for autumn fairs in full swing
Joint event for Quantum Effects and hy-fcell 2024 by Landesmesse Stuttgart.
16.05.2024 • News
KDPOF collaborates with Hinge Technology
A strategic partnership aims to solve key technical issues in the industrial application of optical communications in vehicles.
16.05.2024 • News
Siemens sells Innomotics to KPS Capital Partners
The sales price is 3.5 billion euros and the transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of the 2025 financial year
10.04.2024 • News
Prima Additive and Sodick form business alliance
Sodick acquires a minority stake of 9.5 % in Prima Additive through a capital increase specifically reserved for Sodick.
07.03.2024 • News
Vega expands to Sweden and Denmark
Two of the company's new subsidiaries begin operations in Scandinavia
29.02.2024 • News
X-ray light generated by a laser to inspect e-car batteries
Trumpf is leading the XProLas development partnership that includes Amphos, Active Fiber Systems, BASF, Bruker, Cellforce, Excillum, Ushio, Viscom, the University of Hanover and Fraunhofer Institutes in Aachen and Jena.
07.02.2024 • News
Focuslight completes the acquisition of Suss MicroOptics
Chinese photonics company is further strengthening its position in micro-optics solutions.
05.02.2024 • News
“Multicolor vision” for drone flight, vertical farming, and autonomous driving
European research project HyperImage launched with twelve partners from industry and academia.
29.01.2024 • News
Aeva to provide advanced 4D lidar
Daimler and Torc Robotics select technology supplier for series-production autonomous trucks.
29.01.2024 • News
Non-toxic quantum dots for infrared image sensors
A new method for synthesizing functional colloidal quantum dots integrable with CMOS technology.
17.01.2024 • News
Dot projector modules for depth sensing
Coherent has introduced new VCSEL-based devices for consumer electronics, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.
12.01.2024 • Contributions • Photonics
Image sensing revolution makes 2024 the ‘year of the quantum dot’
Nanoscale semiconductor particles are making waves in the sectors including autonomous vehicles, food inspection, medical devices, artificial intelligence, and more, as industry players increasingly seek to expand their access to infrared data.
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH (BLZ)
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
TRUMPF Photonic Components GmbH
Luxinar Ltd
ifm electronic gmbh
Scantinel Photonics GmbH
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
Coherent Corp.
Technical University of Munich
Quantum Science Ltd
Siemens AG
Prima Additive S.r.l.
HPL Technologies GmbH
Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Luminar Technologies Inc.
Lessmüller Lasertechnik GmbH
Mitutoyo Europe GmbH
TÜV NORD AG
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT
Fraunhofer Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS
IFR International Federation of Robotics
OptoSurf GmbH
Aeva Technologies, Inc.
Politecnico di Milano
CEA-Leti
Schaeffler Technologies
Blackbird Robotersysteme GmbH
IIS Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen
TOX Pressotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS
Jumo GmbH & Co. KG
SÜSS MICROTEC SE
Teledyne Flir
TriEye Ltd.
Marelli Holdings Co., Ltd
EVK DI Kerschhaggl GmbH
Daimler AG
Aukua Systems Inc.
EMAG GmbH & Co. KG
AMA Verband für Sensorik und Messtechnik e.V.
European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC
Renishaw, Inc.
Deutsche Messe AG
Messring GmbH
Polytec GmbH
The University of Texas at Arlington
Bernstein AG
RAYLASE GmbH
KD – Knowledge Development for POF, S.L.
Hesai Technology