LMI's low-cost LPBF machine, the Alpha 140
The award is in recognition of the firm’s development of a low-cost laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) system, which has made industry-suitable metallic 3D printing more accessible for SMEs
In the Fraunhofer project 'FutureAM – Next Generation Additive Manufacturing,' six Fraunhofer institutes are collaborating to accelerate the processing speed of additive manufacturing with metal powder by a factor of ten.
At Formnext this year, between 19-22 November in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the institutes will present initial results that prove that this accelaration in processing speed will indeed be possible.
The EU project AMable aims to accelerate the uptake of AM among SMEs and mid-caps from the European Union
Dr Constantin Häfner, a renowned laser physicist and the current programme director for advanced photon technologies at the LLNL, will be taking on the directorship in November
In laser technology, machine and sensor data are used to monitor a production process. The ever-advancing transformation of production environments in Industry 4.0 and the cyber-physical systems enables these processes to be analyzed in a simpler, more reliable and synergetic manner in the future.
Professor Dr Reinhart Poprawe, director of Fraunhofer ILT, has announced that he will retire this autumn. Here we take a closer look at his extensive career, and the impact he has had on the world of laser technology
A robot-controlled laser processing head capable of performing cutting, welding and additive manufacturing is under development that will bring significant productivity and quality gains to sheet metal processing
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Dr Arnold Gillner, of Fraunhofer ILT, discusses the growing application range of ultrashort pulse lasers in industrial manufacturing
A collaborative project including partners from research and industry has developed a laser machine that triples the rate at which embossing tools can be structured for use in the automotive industry
