
Series applications for additive manufacturing
Jon Meyer is the new Chief Product Officer at APWorks
APWorks, industry provider of 3D printing services and products, appoints Jon Meyer as new Chief Product Officer.
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Series applications for additive manufacturing
APWorks, industry provider of 3D printing services and products, appoints Jon Meyer as new Chief Product Officer.
Together with Mecklenburger Metallguss, the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Large Structures in Production Engineering IGP has developed a large-volume 3D printer that can be used to generatively produce positive molds for casting ship propellers.
After two years of construction, the Swiss drive specialist maxon motor has opened the new Innovation Center at its headquarters in Sachseln OW.

Interdisciplinary research project "Soft Tissue Robotics". Researchers are working on a multi-body system approach for the automated handling of soft components.

The German branch of Mitsubishi Electric has celebrated its 40th anniversary. From Ratingen near Düsseldorf, the company supplies its customers with solutions in the fields of transportation, air conditioning and heating technology, automotive, communication, semiconductors and automation.

The Baumer 10 GigE cameras of the QX series will be equipped with an extended internal image memory of 8 GB and a wider range of functions. The new range of functions will be made available in the 1st quarter of 2019 via a firmware update.
Keba won over the jury with its laser protractor for the sheet metal bending industry and was awarded the Upper Austrian State Prize for Innovation 2018 in the "Large Companies" category.

At hydraulics specialist Herbert Hänchen from Ostfildern, an independent division will in future conduct research and development independently of order and project-related design under the management of Klaus Wagner.

In principle, the drive element "chain" is a simple component. But if it fails, it can cause high costs due to unplanned production downtime. During the 100 years of its existence, TSUBAKI has concentrated on research and further development.

In the coming years, Siemens plans to invest up to 600 million euros in "Siemensstadt 2.0", a new working and living environment on the historic Siemens site in Berlin Spandau.