Robotics, photonics, microfabrication

The Photonics Manufacturing Technology Access Program is an initiative of Australian Photonics and AusIndustry with the goal of diffusing state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques to Australian businesses. Regular hands-on workshops in the fields of industrial robotics, microfabrication, photonic sensor technology, and an introduction to photonics will be held over the next two years in Sydney and Melbourne locations.

The workshops are directed towards professional and technical people who wish to gain a practical insight into new technology fields in a short period of time.

A three-day course on industrial robotics will consist of hands-on learning exercises and background theory lectures. Attendees will learn about robot safety, jogging the robot, input-output control, different robot coordinate systems, entering programs, defining tool centre points, defining new coordinate systems, offline programming, and control of the robot from a PC.

A three-day course on microfabrication will consist of lectures and practical work in microfabrication and photolighography, by which fine features can be patterned for microelectronic or photonics devices.

A three-day course on photonic sensor technology will address topics in photonic sensors of interest to a broad industrial-based audience.

A three-day course on photonics is aimed at industry professionals and technical staff, who may lack a strong background in optics or physics, but who wish to gain an overview of how this technology is likely to impact on their own field of work. The course will consist of lectures to introduce the central principles interspersed with practical demonstrations of photonic device fabrication and characterisation.

Bandwidth Foundry Laboratories, Room G03, Biotechnology building, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh 1430. Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000.

For further information email info@bwfoundry.com