Recently, Optomec (Albuquerque, New Mexico), a global supplier of production grade additive manufacturing systems for printed electronics, announced that Samsung Electronics has commissioned an Aerosol Jet 5X system in its Printed Electronics Lab to enable next-generation electronics production.
PARC (Palo Alto, California), a Xerox company, has opened new cleanroom facilities for use by corporate research departments, government agencies and start-up companies to develop prototype electronic devices and novel technologies quickly and cost-effectively.
Leonhard Kurz (Fürth, Germany) will be demonstrating the automated integration of touchscreen sensors into plastic parts. The sensors will be applied to a white goods control panel using Kurz’s patent pending FFB (Functional Foil Bonding) process. The process was presented for the first time at Fakuma 2018 and is now being adopted in series production applications. A semi-rotary variant of FFB will be displayed at the Kurz booth for the first time.
