Thursday, Dec 20 at 9:30pm EST, National Geographic channel – DIY Death Ray Contacted back in March, the Board of Laser Safety (BLS) assisted in connecting the producers of Rocket City Rednecks with a certified laser safety officer for the filming of tonight’s episode, DIY Death Ray. CLSO Pat Patterson had the time available to […]
Month: December 2012
LME 2012: The Industry’s Marketplace for Innovative Laser Production
By Geoff Giordano More vendors, more content, more onsite registrations — In its second year, LIA’s Lasers for Manufacturing Event (LME®) continued to establish itself as the industry’s only marketplace focused exclusively on photonics-based production. LME 2012 built upon the success of last year’s inaugural session by featuring an expanded package of fundamentals courses, two […]
U.S. Strong for Industrial Laser Processing
David A. Belforte The recovery from the 2008/2009 global recession was, according to experts, going to take at least three years to reach pre-recession levels. In the United States, manufacturing companies, reacting to orders from pent-up demand and delayed 2009 buying plans, found their production taxed to meet a rapidly growing order book in 2010 […]
ILSC 2013 to Present Cutting-Edge Content for the Laser Safety Community
With new ANSI Z136 laser safety standards recently published or on the horizon, the session chairs of the LIA’s biennial International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC®) are busy shaping next year’s cutting-edge educational program. Under the oversight of four-time Chair Dr. Ben Rockwell, ILSC 2013 will build on the success of the 2011 Technical and Medical […]
The Next Era of U.S. Manufacturing is Here!
Whether you drive or fly to LIA’s fifth-annual Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) Workshop in Houston in February, there’s a chance at least one part on your vehicle was prototyped — maybe even produced — by LAM. Most likely, lasers played a significant role in protecting the equipment used to process the fuel for those vehicles. Whether […]