Poorly implemented factory planning is costly. But those who plan a factory stumble over potential mistakes again and again. Here are five common mistakes in factory planning.

Meusburger presented a mould making innovation: the E 3380 compact slide unit. It is the only compact slide unit with a prefabricated cooling hole and an integrated fountain on the market.

The virtual commissioning of customer-specific machines has the greatest leverage in terms of improving product quality, costs and throughput time. Until now, model creation has been costly and uneconomical due to the lack of mechatronic modular building block systems. Let's take a look at the effects of digital twins for virtual commissioning.

Experts at Fraunhofer IGD have developed software that uses artificial intelligence to optimise the assembly of components and also checks the quality. It verges on “sorcery”!

On 21 February 2023, at an Open House event held in its Laser Center of Technologies in Geneva (Switzerland) with more than 70 international VIP guests, GF Machining Solutions presented its new Laser S 1000 U fs and Laser S 1200 U fs machines in an exclusive preview. The two solutions are equipped with new ultrashort pulse Laser sources and are available for sale now.

The global digital reality solutions company Hexagon, has announced the winner of the second cohort of its coveted Sixth Sense open innovation platform, which nurtures start-ups creating solutions to pressing manufacturing challenges. The winner impressed the jury with their innovative inspection technology.

There are three major challenges that need to be mastered in 2023: securing supply chains, achieving climate neutrality and countering the shortage of skilled workers. Find out how these hurdles affect the product creation process and thus designers and developers, and which technologies support them in overcoming them.

German machining centre manufacturer Roeders has introduced a new production centre, the RXU 2000, for manufacturing large components requiring a high degree of precision.

Instead of having to inspect large components in two steps, GT Tooling invested in a portable arm with a reach of two metres. The Freedom arm from LK Metrology provides accurate results when the company is measuring dimensions to general drawing tolerances of ± 0.1 mm and accelerates the inspection process at the same time.

With the new rotary index table from LK Metrology, the speed with which someone can inspect a component using a portable, multi-axis measuring arm is increased by up to 40 percent. Instead of the part being static, the Freedom Index Table can be rotated to facilitate the inspection of all areas of a component.