umati has new partner Laserline GmbH

Laser­line is now part of the umati community

What expect­a­tions do you have of umati, what do you expect from the partnership?

We hope that through umati, the com­mu­nic­a­tion stand­ards for machine and con­trol sys­tems will become increas­ingly wide­spread in the industry. By part­ner­ing and col­lab­or­at­ing with umati, we are con­fid­ent that Laser­line will stay at the cut­ting edge of tech­no­logy, enabling us to serve our cus­tom­ers in the best pos­sible way.

What advant­ages does umati offer your com­pany and your customers?

For Laser­line, and espe­cially for the users of our laser sys­tems, stand­ard­ized machine-to-machine inter­faces offer sig­ni­fic­ant advant­ages. By join­ing umati, we hope to bene­fit from the wide­spread adop­tion and use of inter­face stand­ards as umati pro­motes them across the entire machinery and plant engin­eer­ing sec­tor. The new inter­face stand­ard through the OPC UA Com­pan­ion Spe­cific­a­tion for Laser Sys­tems is par­tic­u­larly bene­fi­cial for us and, most import­antly, for our customers.

How do you eval­u­ate the expan­sion of the umati ini­ti­at­ive to the entire mech­an­ic­al engin­eer­ing industry?

Laser­line views the expan­sion of inter­face stand­ards in machinery and plant engin­eer­ing very pos­it­ively, as this will lead to great­er adop­tion and accept­ance of com­mu­nic­a­tion stand­ards among our end users.

About Laser­line

Laser­line GmbH launched its busi­ness in 1997 in the Ger­man city of Mül­heim-Kär­lich near Koblenz. As a lead­ing inter­na­tion­al man­u­fac­turer of diode lasers and beam shap­ing solu­tions for indus­tri­al mater­i­al pro­cessing, Laser­line has become the very embod­i­ment of this innov­at­ive tech­no­logy. Over 7,500 sys­tems are in use world­wide and have proven their effi­ciency in a wide range of dif­fer­ent applic­a­tions. The core com­pet­en­cies include espe­cially cus­tom­ized, robust and innov­at­ive beam shap­ing solu­tions. Cur­rently, Laser­line employs 400 people and has sub­si­di­ar­ies in the USA, Mex­ico, Brazil, Japan, China, South Korea, and India, as well as rep­res­ent­at­ives in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region.