Presenter: Girish Wable, Senior Manager, Strategic Capabilities

Presenter: Nello Li Pira, Head of Materials Labs | This work discusses one of the main future challenge in automotive materials addressing the integration of embedded electronic functionalities and sustainability. The cars of the future will have an elegant and ergonomic design with embedded sensors, touch surfaces and biomimetic multi-coloured components. E-mobility and autonomous driving are becoming fundamental demands in vehicles but at the same time, they have to merge with sustainability introducing biomaterials and strengthening the circular economy. This implies a continuous development of current products with increase of electronics contents meeting in parallel the main issues of economy of the future: limiting the presence of hazardous chemicals, increase uptake of recycled materials and developing bio-based plastics.

Presenter: Rafael Michalczuk, Senior Technology & Funding Manager | Swarovski is innovating since decades in the additive manufacturing domain and printing technologies form an important puzzle piece in the manufacturing processes. But is it now time to reinvent Gutenberg´s invention? As proof-of-concept Swarovski will showcase in the talk different innovations – ranging from additive manufacturing in jewelry, 3D glass printing to 2D/3D printed electronics applications and nano-imprint lithography in various application areas for the luxury brand.

Presenter: Michael Petersen, CEO

Presenter: Thomas Morel, R&D Director, Custom Solutions

Presenter: David Dewey

Presenter: Nancy Stoffel, Platform Leader for FHE | This presentation overviews GE’s vision of the digital industrial challenges in manufacturing. It does this in the context of opportunities for sensors, and communication elements made using flexible hybrid electronics, for smart manufacturing, structural health monitoring, and for improved worker safety and productivity.

Presenter: James Lee, Director | This talk will discuss how an intelligent package using printed electronics can be used to improve medication adherence with patients. Those outside of the medical field are unaware of the impacts of low medication adherence, James will define medication adherence and studies performed by Jones to improve adherence among patients.

Presenter: Martin Hedges, Managing Director | This presentation will review the state-of-the-art related to the production of 3D mechatronic systems using Additive Manufacturing (AM) and review developments for scaling the processes through all stages, from one off prototyping to high volume manufacture. A reconfigurable array of structural and electronics printing, pre- and post processing techniques are combined with SMD technologies to enable digitally driven 3D electronics manufacturing. The resultant flexible process chains can be easily reconfigured to cope with rapid changes in product type whilst retaining the ability to be scaled through to high volume manufacture. Selection of the most appropriate print, pre- and post-processing methods with the subsequent effect on process speed and cost will be discussed. A brief review of current applications, spanning 3D electronic circuits, antenna, sensor and heater patterns will be conducted along with an update on the progression to First Time Right manufacture of complex devices.

Presenters: Terho Lahtinen, Senior Manager, Future Concepts | Kimmo Pernu, Innovation Architect | Movesense is an open sensor platform for creating new solutions to track motion, heart rate and ECG. Movesense is used for building wearable sensor concepts and for integrating sensors with apparel. To enable smooth apparel integration and to provide context information for the sensor, Movesense team of the Finnish sports watch expert Suunto worked together with TactoTek, another Finnish tech company specialized in IME, to develop a flexible connector element that includes in-molded electronics and can be applied to clothing with typical textile industry methods. The presentation describes the project background and steps in practice.

Presenter: Thomas Kolbusch, Vice President | Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH is a market leader in R2R equipment for printing, coating and laminating. Working in PE for nearly 20 years the company specialized in the scale up from innovative products and technologies from Lab2Fab. The speaker describes the strategy and the shift into digital fabrication, moving from analog printing systems into inkjet and other digital methods. This approach is combined in the semi digitalization of standard systems like slot die coating. The overall umbrella on all activities is the industry 4.0 approach with the focus on inline control of processes, products and equipment by sensors, camera systems and other tools. Combining the data out of these processes with artificial intelligence and big data to make the digitalization of the processes possible.

Presenter: Christopher Booher, Chief Marketing Officer | ChemCubed, a U.S. based manufacturer of materials and printing solutions for 3D printing / Additive Manufacturing, will present their ElectroJet brand solutions for AME/PE covering the offerings of materials (silver conductive and dielectric insulating inks), equipment (electroUV3D inkjet printer for electronics), and processes. The multi-faceted portfolio will be highlighted for differentiation in performance, economics, flexibility, compatibility and benefits to key applications and market segments. ChemCubed will also present examples of the ElectroJet brand’s resulting solutions to date by application, further understandings of unmet needs within the industry and emerging technology to address the needs in the future developments of materials and equipment.