Not only for the production of optimized lightweight housings for electric motors, the British company Brooks Crownhill Limited (BCP) relies on 3D printing systems from voxeljet. For a lot of automotive parts, BCP counts on prototypes produced using 3D sand printing well before they are ready for series production. The advantage: the ability to design highly complex parts without having to keep expensive tools on hand. Plus, with the right approach completely new designs emerge, as additive manufacturing offers unique design possibilities. The reason for this is that additive manufacturing allows end users to thoroughly inspect and extensively test the newly designed components before the production tools are manufactured. This saves a massive amount of time and money.

Formnext Connect had long been planned as a face-to-face trade fair. However, when the Covid-19s rose in September, the organisers also decided that the event would switch to a digital format in 2020. A good decision, as it turned out, because even today there is still no talk of a real decimation of the number of illnesses. By Sabine Slaughter

An exciting new 3D vision system now makes inspecting parts in 3D as easy as using a 2D smart camera. While optical inspection in 3D previously required a great deal of programming but offered few benefits, Cognex's new technology brings better image quality, simplified application development, and a wide range of true 3D inspection tools - significantly expanding the range of applications in industrial automation.

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