Engage with industry experts and thought leaders representing all facets of automation. Modular cells, fenceless robot safety, integrated vision, coordinated motion, bin picking, and 3D-printed grippers – the latest trends are at Automate 2015. Automate is organized by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), which is the umbrella group for the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging, and the Motion Control Association (MCA). It’s collocated with ProMat®, also on the top-ten list. The biennial show is now 70 percent larger, occupying 79,000 square feet of exhibit space.Īutomate was named one of the Top 10 Manufacturing Shows in the U.S. More than 270 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees representing 35 nations will converge on the McCormick Place Convention Center on March 23-26, 2015.
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No other event in North America brings you the full spectrum of automation like the Automate conference and exhibition. How do we keep up? Head to Chicago, where one show puts it all into perspective.
The technology is moving at warp speed and the reasons to automate are multiplying. It’s handling our products with intelligent robotics, robust compliance, and advanced sensory perception. It’s more approachable for human operators and more cost-effective for buyers. Automation is on the move, becoming plug-and-play ready when and where you need it. No longer are the machines over there and the humans here. Second harmonic generation (SHG) and third harmonic generation (THG) processes offer a small beam spot, strong light absorption, and minimal heat accumulation to cut heat-sensitive polymers and achieve smooth surfaces on different materials.Automation is becoming a contact sport. The facility’s higher harmonic generation enables greater precision and improved surface finishes. The ULAL targets laser micromachining applications such as cutting glass, polymer, metal (including titanium, wolfram, and tungsten) and hard materials like diamond and sapphire microdrilling surface structuring surface functionalization in-volume and surface marking selective layer removal semiconductor scribing and transparent material welding. In addition, the laboratory has the ability to perform fast glass cutting thanks to partnerships with Holo/Or (using their DeepCleave module) and the Workshop of Photonics (WoP). The ULAL is the first and only facility on the continent where XL SCAN can be demonstrated together with a femtosecond laser. Laser process machine control is handled by DMC software. The galvoscanner works in tight synchronization with an ACS SPiiPlus motion controller as part of an XL SCAN system providing high-accuracy laser processing over a 400 x 600 mm area. The ULAL has a SCANLAB excelliSCAN galvoscanner, which offers exceptional beam direction stability and acceleration of 51,000 m/s 2 to steer the laser beam around the sample. Partnerships with SCANLAB, ACS Motion Control, and Direct Machining Control (DMC) allow for the machining of large samples with precise motion synchronization between scanner and linear stages. Separated by tens of nanoseconds, the pulses in burst mode interact with plasma and open up new possibilities for shaping surface morphology. This enables splitting of the main pulse into 2–30 pulses, so each provides optimal laser fluence or energy accumulation desired in some applications. At the ULAL’s heart is Fluence’s Jasper 30 femtosecond fiber laser, which offers three wavelengths, pulse duration tuning from 230 fs to 10 ps, and different temporal pulse structures.Ĭovering micromachining at an average power of up to 30 W, with up to 20 MHz rep rates, the Jasper laser offers single pulse and burst mode for process enhancement. The micromachining station is comprised of positioning stages, galvoscanners, and various fixed and beam-shaping optics. Intended to develop laser processes for future products and technologies that will forge new frontiers in micromachining for consumer electronics, medical devices, and other applications, the ULAL allows Fluence to test new processing strategies for industry, perform feasibility studies, and identify new applications.
The laboratory is equipped with a top-class, high-precision automated micromachining station based on high-power femtosecond lasers. Fluence, a femtosecond laser manufacturer with unique all-fiber technology for material processing, life science, and scientific applications, introduced the Fluence Ultrafast Laser Application Laboratory (ULAL), a new facility in Wrocław, Poland.
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