From sports cars to consumer products, from ophthalmic lenses and packaging materials right on up to yoga mats – today, more and more products are made of high-tech plastic materials. End-user requirements with regard to precision, durability and weight are increasing along with demand for low-cost…

- Display area in great demand
- Parts cleaning technology becoming increasingly mission-critical

Wherever industrial parts are manufactured or processed, parts cleaning technology is critical for the successful outcome of downstream manufacturing processes, and for the quality of the finished product…

Weidmüller receives the Functional Safety Management Certificate in accordance with EN 61508:2010 from TÜV NORD. The certification body certifies that Weidmüller has implemented and operates a system for managing functional safety in accordance with EN 61508:2010 for the development of safety-relate…

The screw plugs GPN 730, the sealing plugs GPN 735 and GPN 736, as well as the sealing plugs with O-ring GPN 737 and GPN 738 from the KAPSTO® standard program, which contains over 3,000 different protective elements, ensure optimal protection during manufacturing, storage, and transportation. They a…

An example demonstrates the application of the Autonomous Optimization tool available in SIGMASOFT® Virtual Molding. The mold for a thick-walled part had to deliver a cycle time below 60 seconds, which could be realized with different tempering concepts. The best cooling configuration was found at t…

"The move back to Karlsruhe has paid off for us," concludes Ulrich Rothgerber from the trade fair organizer Inspire – Event Management. "Already in advance, there were more registrations from industry visitors for the 2018 lounges than in Stuttgart last time. The feedback was mostly very positive…

The trend in the medical products industry towards greater individualisation and product variety continues unabated. At this year's MedTec in Stuttgart, MULTIVAC will therefore be presenting flexible solutions for packing medical products in small to medium-sized batches. The packaging solutions to…

"Particles for a better life" – under this motto, the PARTEC, an international congress for particle technology, will take place in Nuremberg in 2019. The Executive Committee of PARTEC, chaired by Professor Stefan Heinrich, has announced the Call for Papers: scientists from university research, inst…

– High demand for stand spaces
– The importance of component cleaning continues to grow

Whether parts manufacturing or processing, component cleaning has a decisive influence on the quality of subsequent production processes as well as the final product quality. Accordingly, the requirements for par…

The LENA Laboratory for Emerging Nanometrology at the Technical University of Braunschweig researches nanometrology techniques. A team of interdisciplinary scientists is particularly focused on measuring three-dimensional objects in the nanoworld, which are essential, among other things, for the fur…