NEWS Engel hosts
Med.Con event
Engel hosted its 11th Med. Con medical technology conference in Stuttgart, Germany, in mid-February, with about 100 people present. Speakers from Engel and medical device manufacturers discussed advanced technology, notably artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data. Uwe Herbert, IT manager
with Ypsomed, said that “the volume of data generated is increasing, but the use of the data is not”. He called for linking the IT systems of individual departments in companies and giving employees the necessary freedom to experiment, in order to improve product quality and reduce costs. “We are passing up oppor-
tunities here,” he said. Christian Pommereau, principal engineer with pharmaceutical firm Sanofi- Aventis Deutschland, stressed the need “to shift up a gear when it comes to AI”. Pharma is far ahead of plastics processing in this respect.
Another keynote presen- tation came from Christoph
Lhota, VP of Engel Medical, who gave his perspective on many areas of medical technology in which the company is working. These included injection moulding of liquid silicone rubber in the cleanroom, efficient injection moulding of very small batch sizes and sterile injection moulding. �
www.engelglobal.com
Lifetime award for Arburg’s Eugen Hehl
The Department of Plastics Engineering of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) awarded the Richard Vieweg Medal of Honour, its highest honour, to Arburg co-founder Eugen Hehl at Baden-Baden on 11 February “in
recognition of his outstanding lifetime achievement”. Hehl’s daughter Juliane accepted the award on his behalf. “Eugen Hehl has worked with great
dedication to advance the develop- ment of injection moulding technology
and at the same time has promoted new technologies outside his industry,” said Kurt Gebert, chairman of the department, who also praised Arburg’s support in VDI committees. �
www.arburg.com
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