A cuppa with Milan Brandt
8 January 2019
In celebration of LIA’s 50th anniversary, the organisation asked its president, Milan Brandt, to give his thoughts on laser materials processing
Winter 2018/2019
Emerging laser technologies: a path to disruptive business
7 January 2019
Dr Ronald Schaeffer reports on the opening plenary session of LIA’s 2018 International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO)
Confidence or uncertainty in 2019?
7 January 2019
Dave MacLellan, executive director of AILU, reports on the results of a business confidence survey taken by the organisations' members
Sky’s the limit for laser processing
7 January 2019
Keely Portway discovers some of the different ways advances in laser processing have been used to help improve aircraft efficiency
Plastic fantastic
7 January 2019
Gemma Church investigates the explosion of cross-industry plastic welding techniques
Bright future for fibre lasers?
7 January 2019
Professor Michalis Zervas, from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, charts the rise of high-power fibre lasers and asks what next for the technology?
Gaining control over laser welding
7 January 2019
A laser process head with real-time weld control has been demonstrated, after a four-year EU project. Daniel Lloyd, development engineer at Laser Optical Engineering, reports on the work
Modelling laser ablation
7 January 2019
David Bruneel, process and modelling unit manager for R&D at Lasea, discusses the benefits of simulation in micromachining
Success in sintering
12 December 2018
Stephen Dyson, special operations manager at Protolabs, on how direct metal laser sintering is evolving to become an important additive manufacturing tool
