Welcome to the Laser User Groups section of the AILU website.  As an AILU member you are welcome to join the Groups with specific interests, although the Job Shop Group is only open to those members who run a Job Shop.

Currently, the Groups available within AILU are:

• Job Shop Group
• Market Development Group (MDG)
• Medical Group
• Micro:Nano Group

Additional groups are planned you are welcome to check back here for details.  AILU's new groups are often announced at our Technology Workshops, but announcements will also be made on the website and through Member emails and the magazine.

If you have ideas for new groups contact Malcolm Gower who is the Chair of the Special Interest Groups sub-committee.

AILU’s special interest groups

AILU provides a wide range of general services to laser users and suppliers and hosts a number of special interest groups (SIGs) to better support members who have particular interests in common. These include a Job Shop Group (established in 1995, with 86 members*) for subcontract laser-based engineering companies; a Market Development SIG (established in 2005, with 240 members*) for suppliers of laser-related products and services; a Medical SIG (established in 2007, with 55 members*) for clinicians, manufacturers using lasers for manufacture of medical devices and suppliers of laser-related products and services; and the Micro:Nano SIG, AILU’s newest, launched in mid 2008 at AILU's 10th microprocessing workshop.

The Market Development Group is responsible for the Design for Laser Manufacture (DLM) website at www.designforlasermanufacture.com. For more information see our DLM information page.

Now, with the growing medical sector in the UK and worldwide, the Association has launched a Medical Group for both clinicians and those involved in the use of lasers for manufacture of medical components and the supply of laser equipment to the medical sector.

Membership

Please let the AILU office know if you want to join a specific group. Alternatively email the AILU Office with your details.

Each special interest group (SIG) has its own page that can be accessed using the Tabs at the top of this page.