Process Engineering

Process Engineering

Cost-Effective Lasers Transform Solar Manufacturing Efficiency

Lasers can achieve a decisive step to greater efficiencies and lower manufacturing costs for crystalline and thin-film photovoltaics. With this goal in mind,…

Process Engineering

Corex Hot-Metal Production Proves Economic Efficiency

After the successful performance test, on June 5, 2012, also the Final Acceptance Certificate has been signed by Baosteel. “As opposed to the conventional…

Process Engineering

Automated Deposition Welding: Boosting Process Speeds by 400%

The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and three industrial partners have set a goal to achieve up to 400 percent higher process speeds for deposition welding…

Process Engineering

Ultra Short Pulsed Lasers Transform Industrial Processes

The use of ultra short pulsed (USP) lasers in industrial applications has been a major focus of research for several years. The focus seminar “Basics and New…

Process Engineering

Infrared Heating Enhances Composite Manufacturing for Airbus 350

The system, which is used to provide interim processing of the laid-up composite rear spar assembly of the Airbus 350 XWB to prevent subsequent wrinkling, was…

Process Engineering

Virtual plant planning, retrofitting and maintenance

With over 110 000 employees, BASF is the world’s largest chemical company. At its headquarters in Ludwigshafen, the company runs over 160 production…

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The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

The ability to measure gas bubbles in pipelines is vital to the manufacturing, power and petrochemical industries. In the case of harvesting petrochemicals…

Process Engineering

Ultra-Short Laser Pulses Transforming Science and Industry

The prize was awarded during the annual meeting of the Fraunhofer Society on May 8, 2012 in Stuttgart in recognition of its outstanding cross-location,…

Process Engineering

Plasma Nozzle Coatings: Enhancing Scratch Resistance in Products

When manufacturing products, the coating technology is a key innovation driver for almost all areas of daily life – for example, for making scratch-proof…

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Oil-Free Lubrication Innovations in Metalworking Industry

Metalworking plays a key role in industry. Drilling, milling, turning and grinding operations all use lubricants to prevent work pieces and tools from…

Process Engineering

Unlocking Precision: Fast Laser Scanning for Railway Tech

Laser systems can be used to implement highly precise and ultra-fast measuring processes. Railway measuring technology has a huge worldwide need here. One…

Process Engineering

How Fabrication Methods Impact Block Copolymer Thin Films

The results* suggest that deeper work is necessary to explore the best way of creating these films, which are used in applications ranging from high-tech…

Process Engineering

New Ultra-Small High-Precision Lasers Unveiled by Researchers

Ultra fast, robust, stable, and high precision: these are some of the characteristics of a new laser developed by an international research team. This…

Process Engineering

Enhancing Laser Material Deposition with 3D Powder Gas Insights

The powder gas feed is an important parameter of the overall process and plays a key role in the results achieved. Precise knowledge of the powder gas stream…

Process Engineering

Cost-Saving Laser Process for Free-Form Optics Manufacturing

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT has developed a process for manufacturing optical glass components, which should be particularly suitable for…

Process Engineering

Dual-Laser Technique Advances Standoff Sensing Innovations

In a paper published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Ali Passian and colleagues present a technique that uses a quantum cascade laser to “pump,”…

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