In 2026, the Industrial Interactive Zone will be expanded as a central attraction at Motek, the trade fair for production and assembly automation, and Bondexpo for bonding technology, which takes place at the same time.
The aim is to enable robots in dynamic, unstructured production environments to recognize, analyze and handle objects in real time.
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) is now accepting presentation submissions for the Advanced Vision & AI Conference, which will take place on September 23 and 24, 2026 in Santa Clara, California.
The company is realigning its Global Account & Industry Management division.
At EUR 164.6 million, incoming orders in the Indus Engineering segment remained at a high level in the first quarter of 2026, albeit slightly below the previous year (EUR 171.2 million).
265 exhibitors from 25 countries presented solutions for the technical use of light.
Axel Barnekow Widmark has taken over the position of CEO.
The company has completed a pre-A funding round, led by Enterprise Ireland and Silicon Gardens, supplemented by other business angels
Michael Fischer will speak on the topic of "Smart Factory 5.0 - From Digital Twin to Real Twin".
The trade fair (September 14-19, 2026) brings together around 86,000 visitors, 1,800 exhibitors and ten technology sectors.
3sae presented the Octapod microrobot for the alignment of silicon photonics components at Photonics West 2026.
The company has been represented on the Polish market with its own site since 2000 and supports customers from industry, science and research with optoelectronic solutions.
Indesmatech specializes in semiconductor manufacturer representation, design-in support, consulting and online sourcing.
The company is selling it to the US semiconductor manufacturer Indie Semiconductor for a total of EUR 40 million.
The long-standing CTO Benno Kathan has retired after around 35 years with the company.
Stephan Volgmann will take over this role on the Group Management Board from May 15, 2026.
The company reports sales of EUR 796 million and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 16.5% for the first quarter of 2026.
With 160 exhibitors from 16 countries and over 24,200 trade visitors (2025), the event is currently the largest trade fair for quantum technologies
Blockwise is designed as a toolbox for automated microscopy and primarily addresses applications in electron microscopy, for example in the semiconductor industry.
The international standardization community for image processing drew a positive balance after the IVSM Spring Meeting in Prague.
According to the VDMA Machine Vision department, sales are expected to increase by around 3%, following a decline of 2% in 2025.
The European Photonics Industry Consortium (Epic) has honored Martynas Barkauskas with the Epic CEO Award 2026.
The organization thus recognizes sustainability as a central component of its corporate strategy.
387,000 new components were added to the range in the first quarter of 2026.
In the 2025 financial year, the company increased its turnover to 1.85 billion euros, an increase of 6.5% compared to the previous year.
The company is cooperating with Schwarz Digits on a European edge-to-cloud platform for industrial applications.
The two companies have agreed an exclusive sales partnership for positioning platforms in 3D measurement technology.
The three-storey building with around 2,100 square meters of floor space houses mechanical and electrical training workshops, materials testing training and international training for sales and service.
He succeeds Andreas Wagner, who took over the management of the Italian branch at the same time.
Since April 1, 2026, Curtis has been responsible for the company's global technical strategy while retaining leadership of Vision Technology Partnerships, Vision Optics and Vision TriTeq.
Extech, a brand of Teledyne Flir, has launched an independent website on which the complete range of measuring and test equipment is centrally available.
According to a ZVEI member survey, almost half of companies use AI applications productively.
Igus has developed the lubrication-free high-performance plastic Iglidur A351.
Schaeffler is expanding its involvement in humanoid robotics with two strategic partnerships.
The company is responding to the continuing high capacity utilization by expanding its production space in Lüneburg by a total of 1,800 m².
