The OmniCore platform, the result of more than $170 million of investment in next generation robotics, is a step change to a modular and futureproof control architecture that will enable the full integration of AI, sensor, cloud and edge computing systems to create the most advanced and autonomous robotic applications.
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New machinery orders were up nearly 22% from April 2024 and up 6.5% over May 2023. This is the first month in 2024 where the value of orders placed exceeded those of the same month the previous year.
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Summary of headline metrology and smart manufacturing news from the past 7 days.
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Nearfield Instruments has launched Lightning Mode, a new feature for QUADRA, the semiconductor industry’s highest-throughput, in-line atomic force microscopy (AFM) metrology system for advanced semiconductor devices.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently developed a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire. As a result, this could allow sensors to operate in the most remote settings and, importantly, without batteries.
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Instron has announce the release of the next-generation Autoinjector Testing System for full functionality testing of pen and autoinjectors to ISO 11608. Developed in close partnership with pharmaceutical companies and CDMOs, this system measures a variety of essential performance requirements, including cap removal, dose accuracy, activation force, injection time, needle depth, and needle guard lockout.
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Laser technology plays a central role in manufacturing sector, especially in the field of Additive Manufacturing. In this context, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) and Makino, global manufacturer of machine tools, have ventured an exciting technological advance: they wanted to transfer the extreme high-speed laser cladding EHLA to a five-axis CNC platform. To do this, however, kinematics had to be developed to enable fast and dynamic movement of the machining head for the EHLA process.
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ETQ, part of Hexagon, has revealed results of its global survey, The Pulse of Quality in Manufacturing 2024. The survey found that the vast majority of respondents (73%) have had a product recall in the past five years, with financial costs reaching $99.9M in the U.S. alone for each recall.
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Efficient wafer inspection and metrology are key success factors in semiconductor manufacturing. In addition, they are becoming more demanding, challenging, and costly as feature sizes shrink and design complexity increases.
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Industrial Physics, a leading test and measurement instrument provider, recently announced the acquisition of Torus Group, a UK-based expert in quality control measurement systems and metrology.
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