ABN Cleanroom Technology provides deep-tech startup Black Semiconductor with a Plug&Play ICONIC cleanroom

In the dynamic landscape of high-tech startups, Black Semiconductor, based in Aachen, Germany, specializes in developing photonics interconnects for microchips to enable revolutionary performance capabilities. To meet the increasing market demand for their innovative technology, they partnered with Belgian cleanroom supplier ABN Cleanroom Technology to kick-start their production facilities. In this article, we delve into the…

Een perfecte omgeving om het vak te leren

Hallo, mijn naam is Bram Kemper. Eerder dit jaar ben ik aan het Saxion in Enschede afgestudeerd in de richting hbo Werktuigbouwkunde. Daarna ben ik meteen begonnen bij VIRO vestiging Hengelo op de afdeling Mechanical Engineering. Lees verder

Strategic partnership with Fontys Centre of Expertise HTSM!

We are happy to announce our strategic partnership with Fontys Centre of Expertise HTSM! Together with Fontys and other leading companies in the High Tech area we will work towards strengthening the collaboration between academia, research and the professional field. Read more [Picture source: KMWE on linkedin.com]

Bronkhorst supports young professionals

Throughout the years, Bronkhorst has supported various student teams with flow instruments. It is great to observe the evolution of these student teams into young professional tech companies. An example is Team FAST, a student team from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Read more

Ron Willems: ‘Artificial intelligence is niet te stoppen dus ga er slim mee om’

Zo’n 35 jaar loopt hij inmiddels mee in de hightech wereld. ‘Ik heb een heel groot deel van het computertijdperk meegemaakt’, zegt Ron Willems (managing director Development & Engineering Sioux Technologies). Hij begon ooit zelf als programmeur van eerste embedded software. ‘Inmiddels zijn we aanbeland bij clouds, grote datasets, zelflerende algoritmes en artificial intelligence.’ Vooral in dat laatste verwacht Willems veel ontwikkelingen. ‘Yuval…

Already in Orbit: PI Space-Qualified Series Systems for LEO Satellites

Tip/tilt mirrors for beam stabilization are essential subsystems for free-space optical communication networks. With the rapid development of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite networks, the need for such subsystems is growing rapidly. Tip/tilt mirrors from Physik Instrumente (PI) have already proven their space qualification on several occasions. Now, they are proving their value in various satellite…

Why use a vacuum-enclosed design?

A perfect vacuum is an environment without any matter of gas in it. In industrial applications, a vacuum environment is considered to have a pressure much lower than the atmospheric pressure and is therefore formally only a partial vacuum. In the semiconductor market, vacuum systems are used at various manufacturing stages to reduce impurities and prevent…

Rollen en rechten

Vaak wordt er aan mij gevraagd wat is nu de belangrijkste functionaliteit van een DMS/PDM/PLM systeem. Deze vraag is moeilijk te beantwoorden daar veel functionaliteit met elkaar verbonden is. Rollen en rechten zijn echter wel heel fundamenteel en daardoor ook belangrijk maar het heeft ook veel te maken met workflow en kan dan ook maar moeilijk op zich zelf worden…