wolfgang gries | europe as a key innovator for industrial laser applications
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After completing the initial year, I4MS has hosted its first public international event on 18th June in Berlin, in cooperation with the launch of the German manufacturing programme, Autonomik für Industrie 4.0". I4MS has brought together more than 150 professionals from industry and innovation, who have attended to several presentations about what has been achieved by I4MS and further funding opportunities for SMEs and middle size corporates (mid-caps) under the Initiative. The event signified the importance of SMEs in Europes manufacturing industry and their role in the reindustrialisation process for Europe. At a glance: SMEs are providers of around 45% of manufacturing added value and roughly 59% of employment in the manufacturing sector.TRANSCRIPT
Europe as a Key Innovator for Industrial Laser Applications
BERLIN
17th & 18th of June 2014
Wolfgang Gries - DirectPhotonics
INDEX
1. Historical Development of Industrial Lasers
2. Micro-Material Processing
3. Macro-Material Processing
4. The Dilemma
5. Outlook
Hist. Development of Gas Lasers
Dinosaurs live longer
• CO2 still maintains the majority of lasers used for industrial
manufacturing
• Simplicity in design
• Lowest capital cost
• Range from Watts to kWatts
• Wavelength advantages
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• Wavelength advantages
• European/Asian suppliers took over from US-
suppliers
• Excimer Laser
• Established application in annealing and
ophthalmology are difficult to replace
• German technology is a success story hardened by
US-capital
• Argon-Ion Lasers
• Still around in bio-med apps
• Threatened by DPSS/Diode
Hist. Development of Solid-State Lasers
• Lamp-pumped SSL first to substitute CO2 in industrial
manufacturing (Automotive)
• As GaAs-technology matured diode-pumped SSL became
disruptive and created new apps and markets
• Wavelength conversion
From LPSSL through fiber to direct diode
• Wavelength conversion
• Pulses from µs to femto
• European leadership in industrial apps
• US still strong in semicon apps
• Disk-laser the first real thread to kW CO2 too slow to market
• Telecom bubble gave birth to fiber laser takes over 50% from CO2
• Direct-Diode moves from hardening to cutting
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Micro - Material Processing
• Semicon: Dicing, scribing, inspection, LDI still disruptive to
mechanical techniques but cyclic.
• PV was a big bet but dead now
• Automotive wants to drill – if you continue to buy Diesel
Nano moves to Femto – DPPSS/Fiber hybrids
• Automotive wants to drill – if you continue to buy Diesel
• Smartphone/Display manufacturing drives demand for ultra-fast
• Demand on platforms extremely diverse – either niche or catalog
business
• Mainly a European technology drive but US-consolidation going on
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Macro - Material Processing
• Cutting biggest market in metal processing but only 20% done by
lasers (2005)
• Behind the scene CO2s have always been used for cutting and
marking – never fully tracked by market research
Lasers changed the value chain of manufacturing
• In Europe lamp-pumped and disk-improved flexible
manufacturing and traceability (Automotive, pioneered by VW)
• Fiber laser disruptive for all laser based processing in macro and
increases market share of lasers against mechanical methods
• Direct-Diode coming into play due to increased chip brightness
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• IPG successfully turned fiber focus from telecom to material
processing
• Built on decades of research in optical fiber from former
Soviet Union
• Fiber laser development suffers from weak supply chain
on critical components
• European fiber/component develop-ment 5 years behind
• Fiber laser suppliers not focused on single business plan
The Dilemma
Fiber Lasers - only one shop to go?
• Unmatched cost structure through pragmatically simplified
architecture and one wavelength diodes
• Verticalization supports cost structure and speed on platform
variations
• Fiber laser suppliers not focused on single business plan
(internal cannibalization, internal market versus external,
company structure dis-advantage)
• US-Laser companies too diverse don’t own industrial
manufacturing
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But the customer wants more market on fiber-guided lasers with the features of fiber lasers
• Fiber lasers are hip today but at the end the user only cares about the values and not the platforms
• Photonics will become increasingly integrated (light source and optical chain) and continue to substitute conventional methods in
industrial manufacturing
• Platforms for Macro will become more diverse - beam shaping, wavelength, pulsing…
Outlook
Photonics will continue to go industrial as a commodity – the driver is flexibility
• Platforms for Macro will become more diverse - beam shaping, wavelength, pulsing…
• Let’s talk about China…
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• Europe needs to maintain leadership in industrial manufacturing through
• supporting next generation technologies and applications
• collaboration on all parts of the value chain is a key
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