automotive industry

21.08.2025 • News

Mitutoyo and Nemera are working more closely together

The partnership with Mitutoyo enables Nemera to standardize measurement technology software and hardware at all locations worldwide.

21.08.2025 • News

Jumo focuses on sustainability and energy efficiency

Jumo has received EMAS certification, an important EU environmental management certificate that goes beyond ISO 14001.

23.05.2025 • News

Safety requirements for autonomous mobility

The TÜV Association is calling for clear rules on AI, data access, and cybersecurity to ensure that autonomous vehicles can be safely integrated into traffic.

09.05.2025 • News

Increasing automation in the US automotive industry

In the US automotive industry, the installation of industrial robots rose by 10.7% to 13,700 units in 2024, according to preliminary results from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

22.04.2025 • News

Infineon and Marelli enter new era of cockpit design

MEMS laser beam scanning for an immersive car display experience.

04.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics

From raw material processing to recycling

Battery production is at the heart of industrial and climate policy worldwide. Indeed, the demand for energy storage systems for electromobility and stationary applications is growing globally as is the importance of efficient, sustainable and regionally independent battery production.

01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics

Reinventing laser processing for EVs

Coherent’s Thomas Hofmeister and Majid Abbasi discuss how lasers have played a key role in the transformation of manufacturing in the automotive industry in a new PhotonicsViews article.

01.04.2025 • Contributions • Photonics

Process and product innovation in electric mobility enabled by photonics

At Politecnico di Milano, the Laboratory for Laser Applications, SITEC, looks towards the development of new processes enabling new products and solutions for electric mobility exploiting the increased availability of laser-based manufacturing solutions in the industry.

19.03.2025 • News

Focus on battery cell and pack production for electric mobility

At the upcoming Hannover Messe, eleven companies jointly present the ‘Battery Cell Production’ project

11.02.2025 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Manufacturing Data Platform Showcases Smart Factory Automation

Increasing Efficiency in Production

05.02.2025 • Contributions • Photonics

Solutions for wire and busbar stripping

A new early view article in PhotonicsViews discusses challenges for busbars in mass production, and high-speed CO₂ laser busbar de-coating methods.

29.01.2025 • News

Keysight partners with KD

Collaboration delivers TDFOM measurement and signal metric analysis for next-generation automotive networks, driving industry-wide standardization and interoperability.

04.12.2024 • News

Hexagon partners with Seat

Cooperation to transform manufacturing efficiency and accelerate the industrialization of new cars.

27.11.2024 • News

Zeiss and Tesa are cooperating on holography

Since 2022, the two companies have been working together successfully in the fields of holography and customized adhesive solutions.

08.08.2024 • News

Global experts gather to advance laser-based manufacturing for e-mobility

Review: LaserEMobility Workshop 2024, 17 – 18 July 2024, Garching near Munich, Germany.

05.08.2024 • News

On-the-fly laser welding for more efficient, lower-cost production

Blackbird’s open house event attests to robust industry interest.

24.07.2024 • News

Optosurf becomes part of the Mahr Group

The global provider of dimensional metrology solutions Mahr today announced the acquisition of OptoSurf GmbH

22.07.2024 • News

Next-gen photonic scanner-detector chip unveiled

The new samples will be available from Scantinel for customers in Q4 2024.

15.07.2024 • News

Lasers with artificial intelligence

Trumpf and Sima-AI agree on strategic partnership.

11.07.2024 • News

Approaching Shannon’s Limit: KDPOF becomes KD

The opening of the new prototyping laboratory and assembly and test plant in Tres Cantos, Madrid, was accompanied by a rebranding.

10.07.2024 • News

An improved cutting process for battery separator foils with CO₂ lasers

Laser manufacturer Luxinar is highlighting the benefits of laser cutting battery separator foils at the LaserEMobility Workshop.

21.06.2024 • News

“Next-generation photonic sensor systems for transformative impact in automotive, agriculture, and healthcare”

EU-funded project aims to create a holistic framework for the development of next-generation hardware and software solutions, including innovative lidar solutions and CMOS imaging technologies.

20.06.2024 • Contributions • Photonics

OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry

Experts from Lessmueller Lasertechnik discuss the advantages to extend the use of OCT – as known from laser welding – to classical GMAW in an early view article of PhotonicsViews.

13.06.2024 • News

The future, made in Stuttgart – preparations for autumn fairs in full swing

Joint event for Quantum Effects and hy-fcell 2024 by Landesmesse Stuttgart.

16.05.2024 • News

KDPOF collaborates with Hinge Technology

A strategic partnership aims to solve key technical issues in the industrial application of optical communications in vehicles.

16.05.2024 • News

Siemens sells Innomotics to KPS Capital Partners

The sales price is 3.5 billion euros and the transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of the 2025 financial year

10.04.2024 • News

Prima Additive and Sodick form business alliance

Sodick acquires a minority stake of 9.5 % in Prima Additive through a capital increase specifically reserved for Sodick.

07.03.2024 • News

Vega expands to Sweden and Denmark

Two of the company's new subsidiaries begin operations in Scandinavia

29.02.2024 • News

X-ray light generated by a laser to inspect e-car batteries

Trumpf is leading the XProLas development partnership that includes Amphos, Active Fiber Systems, BASF, Bruker, Cellforce, Excillum, Ushio, Viscom, the University of Hanover and Fraunhofer Institutes in Aachen and Jena.

07.02.2024 • News

Focuslight completes the acquisition of Suss MicroOptics

Chinese photonics company is further strengthening its position in micro-optics solutions.

05.02.2024 • News

“Multicolor vision” for drone flight, vertical farming, and autonomous driving

European research project HyperImage launched with twelve partners from industry and academia.

29.01.2024 • News

Aeva to provide advanced 4D lidar

Daimler and Torc Robotics select technology supplier for series-production autonomous trucks.

29.01.2024 • News

Non-toxic quantum dots for infrared image sensors

A new method for synthesizing functional colloidal quantum dots integrable with CMOS technology.

17.01.2024 • News

Dot projector modules for depth sensing

Coherent has introduced new VCSEL-based devices for consumer electronics, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.

12.01.2024 • Contributions • Photonics

Image sensing revolution makes 2024 the ‘year of the quantum dot’

Nanoscale semiconductor particles are making waves in the sectors including autonomous vehicles, food inspection, medical devices, artificial intelligence, and more, as industry players increasingly seek to expand their access to infrared data.

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