Tag: swiss
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Switzerland’s largest trade fair celebrates its 20th anniversary with a promising edition
In September 2021, EPHJ was the first show to reopen in Switzerland after the health crisis. A daring risk welcomed by the high-precision players who attended and by the visitors whose quality and qualification were recognised by 98 percent of the exhibitors according to the satisfaction survey conducted at the end of this 2021 edition.…
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Swiss Productions installs two OB7 cobots to operate their CNC mill machines
Swiss Productions says it has gained a competitive advantage by implementing two Productive Robotics OB7 collaborative robots on their CNC mills to eliminate idle spindle time and maximize production. (See video below.) From a family owned company that started in a 750 square foot facility and five screw machines, Swiss Productions has grown to what…
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Understanding Swiss-Type Machining
The CNC market is undergoing tremendous growth. One estimate shows that it will be worth $129 billion by the end of 2026. A number of factors are contributing to the strong growth this industry is experiencing, but one of the biggest factors is the proliferation of new types of machining. There is an entire segment…
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FemtoPrint wins the 2019 Exhibitors’ Grand Prix at EPHJ
FemtoPrint, a Swiss company specialising in microtechnology, has won the 2019 Exhibitors’ Grand Prix at the EPHJ event. The young Ticino company impressed the judges with its “SPOT-RVC”, which has been described as a “real innovation in the medical technology market and a beacon of hope for the 16 million people worldwide with retinal…
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Swiss high-precision micro-technologies event EPHJ prepares to welcome more visitors
EPHJ, the annual high-precision micro-technologies trade show, is preparing to welcome a greater number of international visitors this year. Organisers say the 2019 show “looks promising” as they prepare to host equipment manufacturers from the world of watchmaking, jewellery manufacturing, and medical technology. The next edition of the exhibition – its full title being EPHJ-EPMT-SMT…
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Swiss robots planning to build houses using 3D printers
ETH Zürich, a university in Switzerland, has unveiled a plan to build a three-storey house – dubbed DFab House – using robots and 3D printing. (See video below.) Structural engineers and sustainability experts from ETH Zürich have teamed up with business partners on the project, which is designed to bring numerous building technologies from research…
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Got milk? How a Swiss company builds filling and packaging systems for milk, coffee and other products
Scaled technology and functioning interfaces are essential for Swiss Can Machinery, which is why the company’s filling and packaging systems have a modular design throughout, and why it uses a product program with a scaled structure for the drive technology. The filling and packaging systems at Swiss Can Machinery – which was established by brothers…
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Microtechnology exhibition to showcase innovations in watchmaking and medicine
It’s not one of the most famous exhibitions in the world, and not the biggest, but that’s probably appropriate for EPHJ, because it’s all about small things, or – more accurately – what’s called the “microtechnology” sector. Microtechnology includes such things as watchmaking, jewellery making, and precision instrumentation for medicine, all of which are relatively…
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Watchmaking robots: It’s a small world
When Apple wanted to launch a watch, most people may have thought the company would name it iWatch, to go with iPhone, iPad and iLife. However, Swatch raised a legal objection on the grounds that it had the rights to a product called iSwatch, and Apple’s iWatch would be too similar. This week, the courts agreed and…