Case Studies

Many products are generated by continuous manufacturing processes. Ensuring that packs conform to producer’s or customer’s requirements relies on verifying the contents of products against specification. This is performed by automatic weighing instruments without human intervention. Products are sent along constantly moving con...

Magnetic sensors can be found in a broad range of applications in the communications, oil and gas exploration and aerospace industries. A major challenge in these sectors is the determination of exact position, for example, of engine components during the ignition cycle or satellites during space flights. Magnetic sensors detec...

Manufacturing semiconductors and high power LEDs relies on cleanroom processes where chemicals such as hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and ammonia are used to create features on printed circuits. But if these same chemicals are inadvertently released as tiny traces into the cleanroom air, interactions can ruin entire produ...

Many industrial processes, such as steelmaking, glass and ceramics manufacture, and materials research are done in industrial furnaces operating at very high temperatures. Reaching the required temperature is important for producing the right material properties and reliable temperature measurement is key to demonstrating such ...

Europe’s manufacturers face the challenge of producing consistent, high-quality products using high-temperature heat treatments. Laser hardening is a surface strengthening process in which a laser heats a small area of a component’s surface to high temperatures just below the melting point to create a hard and wear-resistant fi...

Semi-conductors are manufactured using precision instrumentation in a clean-room environment, as even a single speck of dust can lead to the failure of a high-value product. As components on semi-conductor processors get ever smaller and more sensitive to contamination, there is an increasing requirement to manufacture in a vac...