Case Studies

The electrical and electronic engineering industry is a major contributor to the EU economy and directly supports over 4 million manufacturing jobs. All mains-operated electrical devices made or used in Europe must comply with the EU’s Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Directive. This requires that electrical items or compone...

Banks and internet companies need very accurate time and date stamps to send information and process high frequency transactions. As the technology used gets faster, greater timing precision is required. Atomic timekeeping, provided by National Measurement Institutes, supplies the highest timing accuracy, but these clocks are b...

Car fuel injection systems, medical pumps and high-end watches are all examples of applications where smaller mechanisms have supplied improved performance and enhanced customer satisfaction. In advanced products, reducing the size of mechanical parts and introducing greater manufacturing precision improves reliability, durabil...

Producing circuits on silicon wafers relies on high-precision manufacturing processes that assemble electronic components to form multiple complete circuits on a single wafer. These are later separated into individual units for device assembly. To improve productivity and efficiency, wafer manufacturers are investigating method...

Ever smaller components in high value manufacturing industries, such as automotive and aerospace, require highly accurate machine tools to produce very precise features, sometimes at the nanoscale. Such tools make small, complex movements in a 3D space, known as ‘six degrees of freedom’. But their accuracy can drift due to temp...

Cataract surgery saves millions of people from blindness and is one of the most common surgical procedures in the EU, with 4.2 million operations performed a year. To restore sight surgeons replace the eye’s lens with a synthetic replica, but to achieve the best possible outcome this must be carefully matched to the dimensions ...