Posts tagged: Manufacturing

Innovative products require more than innovative ideas—they require the right partners. By bringing together application expertise, material knowledge, and manufacturing experience from the very beginning, OEMs can reduce time-to-market, development risks, improve production efficiency, and create more reliable plastic components. Discover how the Product Efficiency Partnership (PEP) approach supports better products throughout the entire lifecycle.

The miniaturization of the dimensions, the precision of the components with their increasing variety of shapes and greater functional integration are the keys to future developments. They are also influenced to a large extent by new technologies that originate from materials engineering and physical process engineering.

Laser direct structuring (LDS) is a special success story. For almost 20 years, it has been possible to apply electronic conductor paths directly onto plastic parts during series production. LDS enables the production of electronic assemblies with flexible geometric shapes. This process enables electronic products, such as smartphones, sensors or medical devices, to become even smaller and more powerful. Automated manufacturing processes also make this process more economically attractive.