3/2011: After the earthquake

MAFO started receiving messages from optical companies and operators of production facilities in Japan. In this issue you can read the feedbacks of individual persons of the optical industry.
‘10 years after invention – what is the future of FreeForm’ was the question on the 12th MAFO – The Conference in Milan. Eleven speakers from Germany, USA, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and as far away as Australia shared their knowledge on the subject with the audience. To this topic Curt Brey wrote an article about his presentation on the conference ‘Exposing the dangers of alloy: the benefits of non-alloy blocking materials’.
In addition the MAFO editors visited for you SIOF in Shanghai (China) and MIDO in Milan (Italy) and will give you a short overview about interesting things there.
Keith Cross analyzes the ‘efficiency gains in the finishing or edging area of the Rx lab’ in part IV of his series ‘Rx laboratories’.
If you like to know more about lens inspection you can find information about the Dual Mapping method in the article from Dr. Christian Laurent.
The ‘Closing words’ are written by Meike Rüppel, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Augenoptik, Editor MAFO, MediaWelt GmbH.

This issue special: Lens Inspection, Automation, Generators
The surveys can be downloaded here!

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