Dave Ramahi, Optomec’s president and CEO, will give a presentation titled “Printing 3D Sensors and Antennas Directly onto Products” at the LiveWorx Technology conference in Boston, MA. Optomec’s additive manufacturing solutions are used in production today to print strain gauges that collect mechanical deformation data for condition-based maintenance, establishing the convergence of 3D printing and IoT applications. LiveWorx 2017 is a global technology conference driving solutions engineered for a smart connected world.
 
Ramahi’s presentation will take place at 11:30 am on May 25, in the Internet of Things track. Ramahi will discuss how Optomec’s Aerosol Jet system can directly print sensors and antennas onto existing 3D structures, or be used to more tightly package traditional discrete sensors and Antenna in a 3D setting. This enables production of Smart Products that are an essential building block for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet applications. Optomec’s Direct Write 3D printing technology improves upon legacy discrete sensor and antenna production methods, which are generally 2D, and fail to optimize for cost, size, weight and performance when adapted to 3D products. Ramahi will also share how Optomec is developing sets of generic sensor and antenna reference libraries to help speed the adoption of Smart Product solutions.