Like last two years Aixtooing will again participate at the German Pavilion, a joint booth representing the optical industry of the Federal republic of Germany. For the seventh time, Germany is represented at the Photonics West with a national Pavilion hosting 53 German exhibitors, showing high-tech products made in Germany. This is the highest number of German exhibitors at a joint booth at a Photonics fair worldwide. Please find us at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA. The German Pavilion is in North hall and is listed under booth no. 4601-36.
Aixtooling presents examples from mold manufacturing and system integration for the precision glass molding process wit a specia focus on highly complex micro optics. Examples are molds for collimation optics, lens arrays and even free form optics. But also for conventional round spheres or aspheres Aixtooling is offering new solutions.
Please visit us and discuss with our experts directly at the booth. You are also invited to contact us prior to the trade fair to arange a meeting.
Your contact: Bernd Bresseler
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from January 24-26, 2012, Aixtooling GmbH will again present the latest developments for the precision molding of glass optics at one of the most important photonics trade fairs world wide - the Photonics West 2012 in San Francisco.
Aixtooling GmbH, Toshiba Machine Corp., and Sojitz Europe PLC and Sojitz Machinery Corp. conclude an after-sales service agreement for services involving GMP systems technology (high-precision optical glass mold press machine).
The service agreement states that Aixtooling GmbH will be offering service and repair services for the European customers of Toshiba Machine Corp. This will utilize Aixtooling employees' many years of experience with Toshiba molding presses. This experience will be extended by means of special training units.
In case of problems or errors in production operations, European customers can inform Aixtooling GmbH as the initial contact using a hotline. Trained employees of the Aachen company will then handle communications with the Japanese machine manufacturer, or coordinate subsequent actions. Depending on the problem, a case-by-case decision can be made whether Japanese technicians are needed on site for the troubleshooting. The service agreement also includes regular maintenance work on GMP machines that end users cannot or do not want to carry out themselves. Various machine components that experience tells must be rotated out are already available in the Aixtooling warehouse, and can be installed quickly when needed. This procedure provides the users of the precision molding process with significant time savings. Your contact for this subject: Dipl.-Ing. Guido Pongs Tel.: +49 241 8904 402 |
The most important components in an optical mold system are the core inserts. Their high-precision fabrication is the core competence of Aixtooling GmbH. Our service offering goes far beyond this, however.
In precision glass molding, the lenses are generally pressed between two molding tools. But for these to be positioned with the accuracy needed and precisely moved in the high-temperature process, a complicated tool system is needed. Especially for the use of multiple tools and numerous synchronously working tool pairs to improve efficiency requires a high degree of system competence.
Aixtooling sees itself as a system provider, that is, it can design and deliver on a task-specific basis not only the optically relevant tool components such as the dies, but also tool matrices, adapter systems, precision guides, and much more. |
At the Optatec 2010 trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, a new machine tool technology for the precision molding of optical glass has been presented. Besides the well known ultra precision turning and grinding machines the American machine tool supplier Moore Nanotechnology Systems LLC now offers the first precision glass molding device - called GPM.
The development by Moore can be seen as a milestone for the replicative optics production because now several suppliers commercially offer glass molding machines word-wide.
The concept of the new development follows a modular approach and can be adjusted to the needs of mass production as well as small and medium lot size production. The user is additionally enabled to simulate the glass molding procedure by a Finite Element Method (FEM) package. In detail the machine tool is characterized by the following features:
One of the first molding machines of this type has been installed at the Fraunhofer IPT in Aachen, Germany and will be used for further process development. The mold (system) technology from Aixtooling can be also applied for this new machine tool. For further information please contact either Aixtooling GmbH, Fraunhofer IPT (Dr. Olaf Dambon) or directly Moore Nanotechnology Systems. Links
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