Conventional lens manufacturing discards up to 97% of the material. Fluidic Shaping offers a zero-waste alternative, utilizing surface tension and neutral buoyancy to form optical surfaces from liquid polymers, eliminating grinding and polishing.

In this talk, I will introduce the fundamentals of Fluidic Shaping and its capability to produce complex optics, including meniscus lenses and spherocylindrical prescriptions. I will then present the latest advancement, which enables the manufacturing of lenses directly into the exact footprint of the customer’s eyewear rims. By calculating a varying edge-height for a 3D-printed boundary frame submerged in an immersion liquid, the polymer naturally settles into the target prescription within this custom shape. I will discuss our experimental validation and showcase fabricated lenses that fit directly into commercial frames without mechanical edging, demonstrating a zero-waste manufacturing solution for eyeglasses.

Myopia is one of the fastest-growing public health challenges worldwide. Although myopia management has advanced significantly over the last decade, opportunities remain to delay onset, personalize treatment, and improve long-term outcomes.

This presentation will review evidence-based prevention and management strategies, focusing on optical interventions and emerging spectacle lens technologies, including Highly Aspherical Lenslet (HAL) lenses. It will explore combination therapies, personalized treatment pathways, and integrated models of care. The growing role of digital tools and advanced instrumentation in risk prediction, early detection, treatment selection, and patient monitoring will also be discussed.

Beyond controlling eye growth, future approaches will increasingly emphasize preventing myopia onset and preserving lifelong ocular health by reducing the risk of complications associated with high myopia. Advances in science, clinical evidence, and public health are enabling earlier intervention, more precise risk stratification, and individualized care. The future of myopia management lies in proactive, patient-centered, evidence-based strategies that support lifelong ocular health.

Satisloh and A&R have joined forces to create one integrated AI powered platform that collects and measures data throughout the ophthalmic manufacturing process and turns it into actions to improve efficiency, throughput, quality and sustainability.

The speakers will demonstrate how data is collected from various sources including LMS, MES, machine sensors and optical and cosmetic inspection systems. They will then elaborate how this data is analyzed and converted into dashboards allowing effective optimization of a lab’s operation and quality by humans and, ultimately, powerful AI agents.

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The Vision Council formed the Industry 4.0 Committee to complement the widely used Data Communication Standard (DCS) for job data exchange in lens manufacturing by adopting an Industry 4.0 Standard. This new standard establishes a method of interfacing between devices, Lab Manufacturing System (LMS), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and any other services to exchange transactional or time-series data (e.g. process parameters, inspection data, sensor data, machine status) for the purpose of monitoring and controlling device health and performance (e.g. OEE, availability, quality).

The objective is to optimize production beyond DCS’s transactional focus. Aligning with EU Data Act and EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements, the standard will cover data accessibility and secure-by-default configurations. The presentation introduces a concise overview of the latest draft version of the Industry 4.0 Standard.

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Lens Density defines the next engineering frontier in ophthalmic manufacturing: maximizing the number of good lenses produced per hour, per square meter. Reaching this goal requires two complementary advances.

First, asynchronous inspection can verify lens quality, optical properties and identification before edging, preventing unsuitable or unrecognized lenses from interrupting downstream production. Second, new mechanical cutting technologies can push both peak throughput and real-production throughput beyond today’s limits, maintaining exceptionally high processing speeds across diverse job mixes, including demanding materials and highly slippery coatings.

It is time to challenge today’s productivity limits and redefine how fast an optical laboratory can truly perform.