Greg Blackman speaks to Marco Reichle, at Reichle Technologiezentrum, on laser texturing injection moulds for vehicle makers – now a huge part of the firm’s business
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Dr Ben Mills, an EPSRC early career fellow and senior research fellow for the ORC in Southampton, UK, explains how deep learning could be used to enhance laser processing
News
15 March 2019
Cranfield University in the UK has launched an MSc course on metal additive manufacturing
15 March 2019
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14 March 2019
Farsoon Technologies has developed an additive manufacturing process capable of printing structures made entirely out of copper using standard fibre laser wavelengths
14 March 2019
Matthew Dale reports from an industry session on additive manufacturing, where a panel of experts discussed the technology’s potential for industrial production
13 March 2019
This year’s Laser World of Photonics, taking place in Munich, Germany, on 24-27 June, will have a particular focus on electro-mobility
Analysis & opinion
14 March 2019
Professor Duncan Hand discusses the results of CIM-Laser, a collaboration between five UK universities that has supported the country’s uptake of laser-based manufacturing over the past five years
14 March 2019
Dr Stefan Kaierle shares how joining dissimmilar materials with laser beam welding could be used to decrease the weight of ships and cars, leading to a reduction in their emissions
14 March 2019
Dr Dieter Schwarze and Bodo Haack, of SLM Solutions, discuss the importance and progression of standardisation in laser metal additive manufacturing
14 March 2019
Dr Daniel Arnaldo del Cerro, laser applications engineer at Oxford Lasers, describes how global energy consumption could be cut back through laser surface texturing to minimise the friction of moving mechanical components
14 March 2019
Paul Webster and Chris Galbraith, of IPG Photonics, report on the development of a new inline weld monitoring system based on technology from Laser Depth Dynamics
14 March 2019
Dr Rich Martukanitz, of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing and the University of Virginia, explains how a performance qualification protocol in traditional manufacturing can be adapted for AM
14 March 2019
Dr Jack Gabzdyl and Dr Ken Dzurko, of SPI Lasers, highlight the multiple applications that fibre lasers can be used for in the making of electric vehicles
Features
07 March 2019
Greg Blackman speaks to Marco Reichle, at Reichle Technologiezentrum, on laser texturing injection moulds for vehicle makers – now a huge part of the firm’s business
07 January 2019
Keely Portway discovers some of the different ways advances in laser processing have been used to help improve aircraft efficiency
07 January 2019
Gemma Church investigates the explosion of cross-industry plastic welding techniques
10 September 2018
Moving to very high power lasers for welding metals, like aluminium in car production, has some big benefits, as Greg Blackman finds out
Application focus
New regulations dictate that certain medical devices must be marked with a unique device identification code. Here we explore how different laser technologies can be used to produce these markings
A look at some of the industrial laser technology on display at Photonics West
A selection of laser technology for micromachining applications, including drilling, cutting, structuring and scribing.
Applied technology for laser material processing, with a focus on what was shown at Lasys from 5 to 7 June in Stuttgart, Germany
Press Releases
Dr Martynas Barkauskas has taken over as CEO from Dr Algirdas Juozapavičius, who will continue to advise the company.
Amplitude has released its new Tangor UV high-power femtosecond laser, which is able to deliver up to 150µJ of UV pulse energy, has a repititon rate ranging from single shot to 2MHz, and a pulse width of 500fs.
The new laser can dramatically enhance a production line by providing an excellent balance between cutting quality and throughput, while being compact and lightweight.
It has been designed to be easily integrated into a production line, and offers high processing flexibility, no matter the optical setup used.
This 'Center of Excellence', designated as Coherent Munich, will be a significant upgrade to the organisation’s applications and R&D capabilities
Advanced functionality such as high-accuracy beam positioning and auto-focus, collision detection, and smart path planning, make it ideal for applications in manufacturing, research and development, academic research, and prototyping
Amada Miyachi America, a manufacturer of welding, marking, cutting, sealing and bonding technology, has received a multi-million dollar, multi-system order for ultrashort pulse laser micromachining equipment in a major United States-based medical device manufacturer
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) will be awarding ten nominees with the Achievement in Laser Safety Education (ALSE) Award at the premier International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC) in March 2019.
Optomec - a global supplier of production-grade additive manufacturing systems for 3D printed metals, has announced the release of its new LENS CS 600 and CS 800 Controlled Atmosphere (CA) DED Systems. These new additions to the Optomec Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) Classic System Series are configurable and maximize the process build envelope with a minimal system footprint.
