Smart Manufacturing / Laser Processing / Industry 4.0

Join us for the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Smart Manufacturing & Laser Processing / Industry 4.0, exploring how laser-based manufacturing and digital production technologies are enabling faster, higher-precision, and scalable industrial production. As advanced industries including automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, energy, electronics, and medical devices push toward higher performance and efficiency, photonics is becoming central to next-generation manufacturing systems. This session will examine how ultrafast laser processing, additive manufacturing, beam shaping, and inline metrology are transforming production environments alongside AI-driven optimization and real-time process control.

This session will bring together manufacturers, laser companies, system integrators, process engineers, and end-users to discuss the industrial scaling of laser manufacturing technologies. Attendees will gain insights into laser welding, cutting, drilling, and surface treatment, ultrafast micromachining, semiconductor and battery manufacturing applications, process monitoring, AI-assisted optimization, and the integration challenges shaping throughput, yield, reliability, and cost in modern smart manufacturing ecosystems.