The glass blank that Holger Kreilkamp from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT inserts into the precision glass molding machine is no larger than a European twenty-cent coin. At the press of a button, the process chamber closes, a vacuum pump hums, and the forming process has begun inside the machine. For the first Read more about Industry 4.0 approaches can improve the development and manufacture of glass optics[…]