Friday, January 31, 2020

Ex-Awaiba Team Founds Optasensor and Unveils its First Product

Optasensor GmbH, a recently founded German company with expertise in the field of photonics integration, design and manufacturing of specially tailored small factor visualization and sensing solutions announces Osiris Micro Camera Module Series, a camera module with 1mm x 1mm footprint, customized wafer level optics, including NIR Cut filter allowing easy vision integration into constrained spaces.


Being an independent Optics and Sensor Module design and manufacturing company it offers Osiris Micro camera module adaptions, using customized and standard CMOS image sensors from worldwide manufacturers. The Camera Module integrates tailor made optical elements allowing endoscope specific oriented solutions, including customised wafer level or single replicated (allowing miniature lensing down to 500um diameter) optics, filters and prisms for light shaping as well as the possibility of integration of miniature illumination solutions.


The founders are pioneers in developing and producing Microcameras in high volume for disposable endoscope market worldwide, with the former company Awaiba. OptaSensor GmbH thus draw on more than a decade of knowledge on miniature fully enclosed camera systems modules, with a focus on the medical market.

The company will exhibit Osiris MCM Series on the coming SPIE Photonics West trade show in San Francisco as well on MD&M trade show in Anaheim.

13 comments:

  1. Is there still anyone left at AMS?

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    1. spitting on the plate where you have been eating for many years is a sign of weakness

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    2. This is funny because it assumes that I was with AMS, which I wasn't. I was just genuinely curious. But it appears there is a lot of unresolved tension here...

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  2. ams razed Nuremberg office with about 25 employees to the ground. Antwerp and Funchal still exist even though key personnel left the company completely. Write off inevitable. 220M€ misconception :-P

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    1. I am not sure who (or if anyone at all) is to blame, but this sounds very similar to the FillFactory story. (But I have no inside view at all.)

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    2. Only troublemaking unmotivated people have left (or been laid off by) ams. You can see them here commenting every ams post.

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    3. i remember Awaiba was already a part of CMOSIS before the acquisition by ams.

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    4. It's funny to call people who made CMOSIS worth 220M€ and made most of the products contributing now to the site's revenues (even after years of them leaving), to call them "troublemaking unmotivated people".
      I would call them "product makers" or "revenu makers".
      They contributed more to products than just importing a sensor from China and reselling it again in Europe.

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    5. There is a different company that seems to have absorbed a lot of the "troublemaking unmotivated people" that have left. The products that grow out of this company are quite attractive (at least the devices I work with is a great step forward vs the CMV product used in the predecessor camera).

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  3. True, awaiba was acquired by CMOSIS in 2014. Later in 2015 ams acquired whole CMOSIS group so including awaiba.

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  4. With the entering of AMS the Excel/Powerpoint people got finally their well deserved place. Unfortenantly its still not possible to design new sensors on Excel, it is better to become a distribuitor of Smartsens . Gant charts are easier to do, without these trouble making enginners.Boeing is now suffering the consequences of managing over engineering .

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  5. Guys, please sit around a table and talk through your issues. Let us not make this forum, managed by an individual, a venting place.

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  6. Cheers to everyone.

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