For tomorrow's products to become a reality, engineering simulation must become a tool for every engineer, every product throughout the entire life cycle. Without this evolution, the opportunities offered by industry 4.0 cannot be fully exploited. A plea for the use of simulation.

At an official ceremony in November 2022, Mitsubishi Electric celebrated the expansion of its European Service Centre in Ratingen, Germany. The reason for the expansion was the integration of service for Mitsubishi Electric robots into the Mitsubishi Electric CNC service organisation.

Germany — The Corona pandemic has given many a digital solution a significant boost. Remote service and maintenance are quality aspects that play an important role at Metav 2022 in Düsseldorf .

AI-based technologies such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning are transforming the way manufacturers are looking to solve their quality control problems for their respective parts or moulds. In fact, the Deep Learning technology is gaining attention from across the industry due to its numerous advantages. Read on to know more…

A US-based moulding company integrates game-changing processing software and machine learning with a state-of-the-art mould shop. Siemens NX CAD/CAM helps the company to integrate mould design and manufacturing as well as to realise automated mould development.

At the Mindelheim-based company BBG, an end-to-end line for finishing glass with polyurethane (PUR) is being set up to demonstrate and test the results of a research project. The project “EKI — Engineering for AI-based Automation in Production Environments” is intended to pave the way for the intelligent adaptation of production systems to changing requirements and environmental conditions, for example in order to manufacture new variants of a product.

“Materials Informatics is an R&D paradigm shift; enabling discoveries and cutting the time to market”

Additive manufacturing is growing rapidly, as is its sub-section devoted to the printing of metal. Where are the companies pushing boundaries? What is the next technological leap?

A recent technological partnership between Parker and Peter Wolters, a brand of Precision Surfacing Solutions (PSS), has resulted in the development of a next-generation fineblanking press

The high-tech company Trumpf is set to unveil its new line of Trufiber P fiber lasers at the Laser — World of Photonics trade show in Munich, Germany. These new fiber lasers are multipurpose tools for welding and cutting thick, thin and particularly challenging materials and will be presented together with the Trufiber S line.