The city of Antwerp fell victim to a ransomware cyber-attack last week. Ransomware is malware that employs encryption to hold a victim’s information at ransom. A user or organization’s critical data ...
3D printing, digitalisation, ultrasonic replication, integrated electronics, ... all these technologies can enhance products, even on microscale! Micromanufacturing offers industrial companies, large ...
The draft ISO/ASTM DIS 17295 “Additive manufacturing — General principles — Part positioning, coordinates and orientation” has changed from status DIS (“Draft International Standard”- draft for ...
The friction behaviour of surfaces can be tuned by laser structuring. Recently, an industrial application of controlling friction by surface texture is presented for large marine ship engines. In the ...
The draft ISO/ASTM CD 52927 “Additive manufacturing — General principles — Main characteristics and corresponding test methods” has changed from status CD (“Committee Draft” – draft for enquiry ...
The use of (real-time) data to adjust production processes - in machining the term is 'adaptive machining' - is the future of production. This is made possible by the increased availability of sensors ...
Many components suffer a loss of performance due to ice formation. Various technologies are available to 'armour' surfaces against ice or frost formation. In this area, too, micro- and nanostructures made with lasers seem to offer potential.
What networking can lead to is illustrated by 24Flow and Manual.to, both Sirris members: on 21 November they announced their joint offering for context-based, multilingual work instructions, offering ...
There has been an important breakthrough in the recycling of waste from old wind turbine blades. It appears that a Chinese company has found how to reprocess the waste into high-quality 3D-printed ...
This innovative concept to lift and move window profiles more efficiently first went through a nice development process before it became an optimised tool for the joinery industry. All this is the ...
The draft ISO/ASTM CD 52926-5 “Additive manufacturing of metals — Qualification principles — Part 5: Qualification of operators for DED-Arc” has changed from status CD (“Committee Draft” – draft for ...
