David Larcombe, who recently retired after 40 years’ service at Bystronic UK, latterly as managing director, was invited with his wife Alison to say goodbye to his colleagues at the Swiss company’s headquarters in Niederönz. After the event, the couple were treated to a weekend in the Swiss Alps beside Lake Lugano.

“I feel extremely privileged to have had the career that I’ve enjoyed within the engineering industry,” says Larcombe. “I have a number of very special memories, especially the many years working for Bystronic. It has been a wonderful company to serve, as I always felt I was a friend rather than an employee. I’ve made many great friendships, both within Bystronic worldwide and the UK sheet metalworking industry. I wish everyone the very best for the future.”
For further information www.bystronic.co.uk

After completing a comprehensive programme of investments in new technology and machinery, as well as process and layout improvements, Pronexos is now able to offer significantly increased capacity and capabilities for the manufacture of large carbon-fibre rollers.

“We’re already supplying CFRP rollers up to 6 m in length,” explains Philipp Kroschner, sales engineer. “There are many potential applications for rollers of this size, including plastic film applications and the non-woven textile industry. There are very few manufacturers worldwide capable of producing CFRP rollers of such length.”
For further information www.pronexos.com

By taking a strategic stake in the Bavarian software company up2parts, which specialises in artificial intelligence (AI), DMG Mori plans to acquire important know-how in the field of digitised manufacturing processes.

up2parts’ AI-based geometric workpiece analysis makes it easy and quick to generate work plans and price calculations for individual components. AI is at
the core of the solution, analysing the geometry of each component within seconds on the basis of machine-learning algorithms and human know-how. The result is a concrete work plan and the accurate cost of manufacturing the component.
For further information www.dmgmori.com

EMO 2019, which closed last week in Hanover, Germany, attracted around 117,000 visitors across its six days.

“This EMO built on the success of our boom year in 2017,” reports EMO general commissioner Carl Martin Welcker. “In the context of subdued economic expectations over recent months, the moderate decline in attendance has to be viewed as a success. We’re particularly delighted at the further increase in foreign attendees. EMO once again proved solid as a rock, providing clarity for the further development of production technologies, even in uncertain times.”
For further information www.emo-hannover.de

Faro has released its Cobalt Design structured light scanner product family. Structured light scanning technology uses projected light patterns with a camera system to capture large areas.

As a result, data capture time is reduced and results are delivered quicker.
In combination with the recently introduced RevEng software platform, Cobalt Design delivers a one-stop digital design solution where small-to-medium objects can be scanned with precision, in colour, with multiple levels of resolution. As such, it is the first colour structured light scanner from Faro specifically developed for design applications. In particular, the device is said to be suited to the scanning of complex surfaces, especially highly detailed organic shapes. Cobalt Design addresses a variety of design requirements, including reverse engineering, prototype design, packaging design, digital cataloguing, and even jewellery and fashion design.
Faro’s Cobalt Design enables design professionals to set up scan parameters once and then proceed to scan similar objects at the push of a button. Furthermore, several pre-configured scanning and meshing settings are available by default. This functionality, in turn, translates to less time per scan position, more scans per day and faster completion of scan projects.
An integrated, rotational axis improves the 3D scanning process and maximises scanning coverage. Objects/parts are placed in fixed positions on the axis, after which the axis can be set to automatically rotate up to 360° as it is being scanned.
Cobalt Design captures millions of 3D measurement points in as little as one second, with up to 3.1 Mpx accuracy for small-to-medium complex objects. Precise and high-quality textured scans can be captured in colour and delivered as realistic images that enable even more detailed representations of geometric surfaces and finishing.
For further information www.faro.com