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In 2023, at the request of the foundries and their customers, Sirris will once again organise a foundry technology course. This course offers you practical, in-depth knowledge of all the important technological and production-related aspects of castings. The teachers can draw on years of practical ...

3D printing, digitalisation, ultrasonic replication, integrated electronics, ... all these technologies can enhance products, even on microscale! Micromanufacturing offers industrial companies, large or small, unseen potential for the development of new products. The technology radically transforms ...

The friction behaviour of surfaces can be tuned by laser structuring. Recently, an industrial application of controlling friction by surface texture is presented for large marine ship engines. In the assembly of the driveshaft a safety mechanism is built in, to deal with excessive forces. The disc ...

Many components suffer a loss of performance due to ice formation. Various technologies are available to 'armour' surfaces against ice or frost formation. In this area, too, micro- and nanostructures made with lasers seem to offer potential.

Whichever way you look at it, manufacturing companies are currently competing with players all around the globe. To stay competitive, adding IoT is indeed a smart move, although it’s not always easy to do. You have to keep working with different aspects of your business model and, hence, your ...

Lowist developed a cloud-based solution that allows its customers to control retractable bollards and barriers for vehicle access from a distance. All the Lowist installations can be monitored and managed from a single platform. As a result the operational management of vehicle access systems is ...

How can an anti-icing coating help combat icing problems? How can it be implemented and how can its effect be simulated in a lab? These are the questions behind the launch of the COOCK project Fighting Icing and the NewSkin programme.

To prevent prostheses from becoming contaminated with bacteria, their surface can be coated with a bacteria-killing microstructure. Moreover, this coarsening improves the adhesion of the bone to the prosthesis. Together, this leads to prosthetics being rejected less and lasting longer. Such ...