The special exhibit “Photons in Production” is themed “Speed meets Quality”, this year. We are going to present you innovative production processes and intelligent system engineering, that enable the compatibility of quality and speed as well as the application orientated realisation of the potential of photonic technologies. The special exhibit—organized by the Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH (blz, Erlangen), the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (Technical University Munich) and the Munich International Trade Fairs—shows live demonstrations of high-speed precision cutting, remote cutting, laser-based rapid manufacturing and the installing of flexible conductors in the automotive area. Other topics of the special exhibit are joining, quality assurance and system engineering.


High-speed precision cutting

Due to a speed-depending control of laser power and laser mode, finest contours of all-time high precision and speed can be cut out of thin metal sheets. This new method opens up interesting possibilities for increasing efficiency and accuracy in the production processes of high precision sheet parts. The potential of high-speed precision cutting is live presented at the special exhibit by the blz and its partners (LLT Applikation GmbH, Precitec KG, lASAG AG).




Remote cutting

Due to the development of brilliant high power solid state lasers it is now possible to realize new concepts in laser material processing. The high power density for example and the large scale focal length enable the user to separate parts contactless and without processing gas by remote laser cutting. This and future production processes as well as the high flexibility of the tool "laser" will be presented by the iwb at the special exhibit.




Laser-based rapid manufacturing

Within a robot performance, the blz demostrates, that the application of only one robot conducted laser system allows the fixing and bonding of flexible conductors on 3D interconnected devices using the techniques of laser welding and soldering of polymers. This newly developed production process allows a significant reduction of the process chains for the generation of complex devices. The result is an increasing of flexibility and a considerable lowering of costs e.g. in the automotive production.



The installing of flexible conductors in the automotive area

In cooperation with the ConceptLaser GmbH, the iwb Application Center Augsburg is presenting the additive layer manufacturing technology LaserCUSING on the LASER World of PHOTONICS. The technology is characterised by a specific fusion process, which is able to generate large-volume components layer-by-layer directly from 3D CAD data using a 200 W fibre laser. Thus, numerous metallic powders (e.g. AiSi10Mg, X3NiCoMoTi 18-9-5) can be processed according to the underlying scanning strategy.




The complete flyer on "Photons in Production is available here for download (pdf).

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