NEWS

Registration now open for MAFO – The Conference 2024

Registration now open for MAFO – The Conference 2024

Registration now open for MAFO – The Conference 2024, the special event in Milan for optical labs and the ophthalmic industry. A top-class program with eleven speakers awaits you next year. This conference following the motto NEXT GENERATION is all about: Additive manufacturing of ophthalmic coatings, blockless manufacturing, smart glasses and many more exciting topics.



Customers at the Ocuco Innovations User Group Meeting 2023.

Ocuco announces dates for its Innovations User Group Meeting 2024 in Florida

Ocuco has announced the dates for its Innovations User Group Meeting 2024: SEAS THE DAY. The event will take place from April 11th to 13th, 2024, at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater, Florida, USA. The meeting aims to bring together optical lab professionals from around the world for three days of education around key market trends, insights into the Innovations roadmap, and practical training with Ocuco’s LMS.

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3M sells LEAP III brand to DAC Technologies

3M announced that DAC Technologies, a global leader in optical lens manufacturing solutions, has acquired the LEAP III brand. The comapnies have entered into an exclusive supply agreement for 3M to supply DAC Technologies with the base component material from which LEAP III pads are made. 


ISSUE 06/2023

Overview

Special topic – Go Digital!: Lens production going digital // Chat GPT and otherAI´s – a new language for the industry // Technology: Overcoming the gas age // Live on site: A breath of future
at VEW 2023 // Silmo Paris 2023 // Market Survey: Lens printing // Laser engraving systems

FEATURED ARTICLES

Lens production going digital

Lens production going digital

Industry 4.0 offers new potentials impacting our business of producing ophthalmic lenses. The fourth industrial revolution is just at the starting point.

Chat GPT and other AI´s – a new language for the industry

Chat GPT and other AI´s – a new language for the industry

Since the free launch of the ChatGPT chatbot, Artificial Intelligence has undeniably become a hot topic. This Interview addresses the untapped potential of predictive maintenance and why the industry would do well to rethink its handling and attitude toward data.

Laser Engraving: Overcoming the gas age

Laser Engraving: Overcoming the gas age

The production of eyeglasses requires different laser marking processes. Now, a new Diode Pumped Solid State (DPSS) UV concept was developed by 3D-Micromac, that should merge highest engraving quality and cost efficiency.

PFAS – what we know and what we do not know yet

PFAS – what we know and what we do not know yet

Interview with the industry association Spectaris PFAS are a group of industrial chemicals comprising a very large number of substances., the number is estimated at approximately 10,000. Due to their special properties, the substances have been widely used for a long time in many industrial sectors and also in the household. However, many PFAS are…


The last frontier for progressive design personalization

The last frontier for progressive design personalization

Gaze dynamics diagnosis. The desire to design the ideal progressive addition lens for each user has been a constant over the years. The tools that have emerged along the years to offer customization demonstrate this. One new tool is a lens calculation technology that can take into account the gaze dynamics diagnosis of each person´s…

Demystifying the dip coating process

Demystifying the dip coating process

Hard coating of ophthalmic lenses For most of the ophthalmic laboratories, among the many steps for lens manufacturing, the most critical one is certainly the hard coating process. This is probably linked to the fact that it is a chemistry related process and not a purely mechanical one. Most laboratory managers have a good knowledge…

Tinting – from gut feeling to process control

Tinting – from gut feeling to process control

A software-based approach to improve process control in a tinting lab Automation and digitalization are omnipresent. Their benefits on the shop floor in terms of costs, quality and throughput are well acknowledged. Now there exists a promising approach to introduce a new level of control and predictability to the process of tinting plastic ophthalmic lenses….

NEWS

The Vision Council opens registration for the 2024 Executive Summit

The Vision Council opens registration for the 2024 Executive Summit

The Vision Council announced that registration is now open for the 2024 Executive Summit taking place January 22-24 at The Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla. The Executive Summit is The Vision Council’s annual event that brings together industry leaders for several days of executive-level networking and leadership development. Designed to illuminate the dynamic changes ahead for…

Vision Expo East will move to Orlando as of year 2025

Vision Expo East will move to Orlando as of year 2025

The Vision Council and RX, co-owners of Vision Expo, announced today that Vision Expo East 2025 will take place in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) February 19–22, 2025. Vision Expo East’s final show in New York, celebrating and commemorating nearly 40 years of achievement and growth within the optical industry, will…

Silmo Istanbul celebrates it´s 10th anniversary

Silmo Istanbul celebrates it´s 10th anniversary

Silmo Istanbul takes place from November 23 to 26, 2023 ! Silmo Istanbul, which continues to grow thanks to its dynamic, stimulating and innovative outlook, looks forward to welcoming industry professionals from Turkey and around the world for the tenth time. This year, in addition to celebrating its 10th anniversary, the optics show is inaugurating…

New Lens Product Description Standard (LPDS) completed

New Lens Product Description Standard (LPDS) completed

The Vision Council is pleased to announce the completion and approval of Version 1.00 of the Lens Product Description Standard (LPDS). Created by The Vision Council’s Lens Product Description Standard Committee, this standard serves as an eventual replacement for the Lens Description Standard v2.2 (LDS v2.2), which has long been the industry standard for lens…

Coburn Technologies Names Rodrigo Neira as new sales responsible for Latin America

Coburn Technologies Names Rodrigo Neira as new sales responsible for Latin America

Coburn Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Rodrigo Neira to their global sales team as the new Sales Responsible for Latin America. Based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Neira will facilitate the extension of Coburn’s sales reach across Latin America under the leadership of Sales Manager for Latin America, Diego Jimenez. “Rodrigo…


The Flying Eye Hospital delivers eye care world wide – next stop Zambia!

The Flying Eye Hospital is heading to Lusaka, Zambia at the end of September for its next sight-saving training project. For three weeks, Orbis will train local eye care teams to restore the sight of local children and adults living with vision loss. Following a successful training project in Can Tho, Vietnam, earlier this year,…

Horizons Optical announcec the addition of David Benet as CCO

Horizons Optical is pleased to announce the addition of David Benet as the new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of the company for the regions of Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA), as well as Brazil. David Benet brings with him a wealth of international sales experience and a deep knowledge of the optical…

Ray-Ban and Meta launch the next generation of smart glasses

Meta Platforms, Inc. and EssilorLuxottica introduced their next generation of smart glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, during the annual Meta Connect event. The new collection offers the first ever eyewear with live streaming and Meta AI built-in, higher quality camera, and improved audio and microphone systems paired with a redesigned, more intuitive app and…

World Leaders discuss ‘The Value of Vision’ at UN

Gatson Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and the UN Friends of Vision Group have brought together world leaders, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prime Minister of Nepal, and Terrance Drew, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis together with ministerial representatives from over 15 countries to discuss eye health and development.  The meeting, held in…

IbisVision to launch refraction technology for over-the-Internet eye prescriptions

IbisVision, the Glasgow-based company that’s leading the move to remote and over-the-Internet eyecare, has unveiled breakthrough technology, the first of its kind, that allows for optometrists to determine a prescription over the Internet, with hardware that’s a fraction of the cost of traditional eyecare systems. The company, backed by a consortium led by Miami-based Compiler…

Safilo and Amazon announce new Carrera Smart Glasses with Alexa

Safilo Group, one of the eyewear industry’s key players of prescription frames and sunglasses,  and Amazon.com – announce the launch of new Carrera Smart Glasses with Alexa, blending Safilo’s Italian design with Alexa technology into two iconic frames. With open-ear audio technology, the new Carrera Smart Glasses direct sound to the ears without covering them,…