Press release
This show represents the big event before the arrival of watches in the autumn marketplace, before the first deliveries. After the large watch fairs in the spring showcasing the brands and their products, the EPHJ (Environnement Professionnel Horlogerie Joaillerie) brings together the players both upstream and downstream of the finished product, who work to make dreams and to resolve production problems. In this regard, more and more CEOs or production directors come to Beaulieu, in search of new processes, material, and solutions, as well as services and equipment.
Watchmaking, a rendezvous not to be missed…
The EPHJ-EPMT event has a unique particularity—the juxtaposition of two sectors that cultivate, in the past as in the present, relative to certain questions, their similarities. In this way, the watchmaking and microtechnology branches come together and mutually transmit their respective know-how. While the section devoted to microtechniques (EPMT) has seen visitor numbers increase since it was created three years ago, the watchmaking and jewellery sections, created seven years ago, are again full to capacity, further evidence that the anticipated recovery is getting underway.
With the participation of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the
FEMTO-ST (Institut de Besançon), and the Micronarc-Alliance in the scientific days and various symposia, the EPHJ-EPMT event is gaining institutional exposure. It also
welcomes a number of group initiatives, such as that of the Canton of the Jura or that of the first French pavilion. And, of course, there are exhibitors that come from many foreign countries, and as far away as Japan and the United States.
From 12 to 15 May 2009.
Beaulieu, Lausanne
www.epmt.ch - www.ephj.ch
Mars Robot
A question of training
Because trade professionals have the right to invite as many guests as they want to the salon, EPHJ-EPMT is becoming better known to the general public. This is important because what goes on here has an effect on the daily lives of consumers. An example is the robot that has come straight to the salon from the planet Mars, thanks to the efforts of Maxon Motor. For the last five years, similar robots have allowed NASA to collect data on the red planet. Thanks to their 39 high precision DC motors, which ensure the movements of their arms, their collection apparatus, cameras, command mechanisms, and their six wheels that permit the robots to capture the unknown terrain of Mars, at -120° or +25°. Thus, they have already transmitted 36 gigabytes of data from distances between 50 and 400 million years. Now there is an application that clearly shows high precision training systems.
