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CLEO 2014 continues with Plenary Session, CLEO: Market Focus

By Shamsul Arafin


On the Wednesday morning, CLEO 2014 started with an excellent plenary talk on Fibers and the Future given by the inventor of erbium-doped fiber amplifier, David Payne (University of Southampton, UK), which featured the recent advancements and developments of optical fibers and its associated technologies such as fiber lasers, modulators, detectors or its relevant applications in telecoms and sensing. In his presentation, he showed different type of novel fiber design concepts including multielement fiber, multi-core fibers, anti-resonant hollow core fibers and the pros and cons of each design in terms of the transmission capacity, cross-talk noise reduction capability and suitability of interconnection technologies.

After the Plenary Session, CLEO: Market Focus program continued like yesterday which provided a platform to discuss about Operational Strategies for the Laser and Photonics Industry. The session, conducted by, Scott Dunbar, (Chief Operating Officer, AdValue Photonics, USA), started with a reasonable number of audiences and primarily addressed four successful companies’ operational strategies which are mainly based on in-house vs external manufacturing and on-shore vs. off-shore manufacturing. The first presentation was made by Mark Holman (A.T. Kearney, USA), covering the value-chain, levels and abilities in outsourcing/off-shore manufacturing for the photonic components, the unique challenges to realize such components due to the necessity of sophisticated cleanroom/fabrication facilities, high-skilled workers, qualities, etc. compared to standard electronics as well as the best practices to ensure corporate success. The next speaker, Nat Mani (CEO, Bestronics, USA) described the merits and demerits of contract manufacturer (CM) vs original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and explained how his company has become successful out of in-house/ on-shore manufacturing strategies. Then Kurt Weingarten (JDSU, Switzerland) introduced the strategies for his Time-Bandwidth products, a provider of high-powered and ultrafast lasers for the industrial and scientific markets. Finally, Andrew Willse (Director of Director of DPSS operations, Coherent, USA) described the effectiveness of outsourcing/off-shore manufacturing strategies by introducing several operational best practices for a successful Dual-Factory implementation.

Look for more  information on hot topic research tomorrow.

Posted: 12 June 2014 by Shamsul Arafin | with 0 comments

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