Nutfield Technology
News, Trends and Successes from the Laser Community
April 2011
In This Issue
Industry Trend
Engineering Tip
Customer service expands
See you @ Laser Photonics
New Laser Application!
Industry Trend

The Skies may be clearing, but fog still lingers

All indicators point to the

laser and photonics industry growing, but most people hesitate to be openly bullish about 2011...

 

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Hello, and welcome back to Laser Insights, the quarterly newsletter focused on insights from the laser scanning community.

The laser market rebounded strongly in 2010 and all signs point to a positive outlook for 2011.  Photonics West kicked off the year, it was bigger than ever and the energy was terrific. 

Nutfield conducted a survey at the end of 2010 where we received feedback from our customers to expand our customer service team.  We are happy to announce that Glenn Mackay has joined the Nutfield team. Read more about Glenn and how you can contact him below. 

Laser World of Photonics is just around the corner in Munich, Germany, May 23-26th.  If you're heading over, be sure to stop by and see what's new from Nutfield at booth 102, Hall C2.

As always, we hope you find the newsletter insightful.  Please do not hesitate to contact me with any comments or feedback.

Regards,

  

Bob Milkowski

rmilkowski@nutfieldtech.com 

President

 

Engineering Tip


Surfboard II operates with the PC or as a standalone system

 

Surfboard Recently the PC has become increasingly unwelcome in the automated environment due to concerns with reliability, tampering, connection problems and the space required for the keyboard and screen.  

 

Nutfield now offers the Surfboard II which can run either with the PC or completely stand alone. Up to 256 job files can be created and transferred to the card and jobs selection can be managed via hardware IO. The hardware IO can be configured to interact with other devices for handshaking and synchronizing functions, and can control motion devices such as XY tables and rotary axes.

 

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Customer Service expands

Glenn MackayGlenn Mackay joined the Nutfield team back in December. He comes to Nutfield with over fifteen years of manufacturing customer service experience and will be a terrific asset in communicating with our customers and maintaining excellent customer relations to meet the changing requirements of OEM's and their subcontractors.  

Glenn can be reached via email or 603-893-6200.

Upcoming Events

Nutfield will be attending Laser World of Photonics in Munich, Germany, May 23-26th.  Please stop by and see what's new from Nutfield at booth 102, Hall C2.  
Laser Restoration at the Acropolis

Acropolis

Scientists have set up an advanced laser laboratory in a public area of the Acropolis Museum in Greece, allowing visitors to see how the technology is being used to restore ancient sculptures to their former glory.

 
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