CONTENT

COVERSTORY
It´s all a Matter of Position
5 MPixel USB Cameras Support Precision Work in Laser Technology
Thomas Schmidgall

EDITORIAL
Harald Grobholz

TOPICS

Secrets Unveiled
Technology Trend Survey for Industrial Vision Cameras

News

Having an Edge
Image Processing Basics: Edge Detection
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heckenkamp

Viewpoint: Crisis Management
Gabriele Jansen

Visionaries
Interview with Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz, CEO Silicon Software

VISION

Camera Cubes
Compact Camera Heads and Cost-effective Cabling
Dr. Reinhard Borst

From Analog to Digital
Digital-Technology - the Future of Machine Vision
Yvon Bouchard

Netbook Vision
Alternative Configurations of Vision Systems Featuring USB Technology

Best of Both Worlds?
FireWire and GigE Racing for the Pole Position
Ingo Lewerendt

AUTOMATION

Glass Tube Inspection
A Customer-specific System for Manifold Use
Dr. Erik Marquardt und Dipl.-Ing. Eckard Eikelmann

A Funeral Parade for the Frame Grabber?
INSPECT Expert´s Survey about the Future of a Component

CONTROL

Laser beam-quality improves
Digital Wavefront Sensors Measure Laser Beams
Igor Lyuboshenko

Detecting invisible Faults
Quality Assurance by X-ray Tomography, Thermography, Shearography and Terahertz
Dr.-Ing. Norbert Bauer