Contributions

Machine Vision

Bring Your Avatar to Life

06.12.2010 - An important presentation: How pleasant would it be to operate the notebook interactively and contact-free, just with pre-defined gestures. What sounds like a futuristic vision is...

Machine Vision

Symphony of Lights

18.11.2010 - Light is an important foundation for all cultures, for it allows people to enjoy a safe and pleasant life. Controlling light and making it technically useful continues to present a...

Automation

Reaching the Goal Faster

15.11.2010 - Step by step, the German state aid for photovoltaic systems will be reduced. In order to compensate this and to remain competitive, solar manufacturers have to optimize their...

Machine Vision

Viewpoint

27.10.2010 - In the year 1984, I had initiated a special editorial series titled „Optical Systems for Construction, Development and Manufacturing" for a well-known professional journal for...

Machine Vision

Tracing Deviations

27.10.2010 - Optical lenses with centering errors do not necessarily have to be rejected as long as the exact deviation between the optical and the geometrical axis is known precisely. So far...

Machine Vision

Machine Vision in Europe Returns to Growth

27.10.2010 - The financial and economic crisis of 2009 had severe effects on the European machine vision industry. However, the results of the European Vision Technology Market Statistics 2010...

Machine Vision

A Smoother Pebble…

24.09.2010 - One of the outstanding visionaries of our industry is without doubt Cognex co-founder and Senior Vice President Bill Silver. By getting him away for a short time from both...

Automation

Exact Seams

24.09.2010 - The fine seam sealing in the automotive industry is one of many industrial applications which are not running fully automated yet. Up to now, narrow tolerances of mechanical parts...

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Digital tools or software can ease your life as a photonics professional by either helping you with your system design or during the manufacturing process or when purchasing components. Check out our compilation:

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