The jury of the inspect award 2022 has nominated ten products in the categories "Vision" and "Automation + Control" and the voting runs from now until September 24, 2021. Vote and choose the best product in machine vision and optical metrology.
As a result of the increasing demand for optics and sensors for the semiconductor industry, Jenoptik intends to expand its manufacturing capacities and construct a state-of-the-art production building and a new office complex at the Dresden site. To this end, the company has purchased a 24,000 square meter plot of land at Airportpark Dresden in May 2021.
Omron and Sincotron become strategic distribution partners for the Baltic Sea region and Scandinavia.
Effective immediately, Mike Hevey will become divisional vice president and global business manager at Ametek Surface Vision.
Embedded vision specialist Vision Components celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2021. The company wants to celebrate this occasion with a webinar series and a hackathon under the motto: "This has to work better" - a mindset that Vision Components considers typical for itself.
The application phase for the inspect award 2022 has begun. All machine vision and optical metrology companies are invited to submit their products. The deadline is May 14, 2021.
On August 1, 2021, Dr. Stefan Häberle will become Chairman of the Management Board of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. He succeeds Hellmuth Aeugle, who is retiring. Häberle will thus lead the subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG together with Dr. Bernhardt Ohnesorge.
Basler AG has released the audited annual report for fiscal year 2020 today. In a declining market environment characterized by Covid-19 in 2020, the group‘s sales increased to Euro 170.5 million (previous year: Euro 162.0 million). Incoming orders amounted to Euro 181.6 million, and were significantly higher than the previous year’s level of Euro 166.5 million.
Time-of-flight sensors have evolved significantly, and recent advances have both increased accuracy and reduced cost to the point where they are now suitable for widespread industrial use. Numerous recent innovations are also expanding the functionalities of these 3D sensors.
The system fits completely on a circuit board and is hardly larger than an image sensor module.
Basler is launching seven more interface cards with GigE Vision interfaces.
The successful Chameleon housing series for Intel RealSense cameras is now also available for the new D455 in addition to the D415, D435 and T265.
Active Silicon introduces new autofocus zoom cameras
With its IRSX smart infrared camera series, AT-Automation Technology offers a solution for intelligent temperature image processing.
Philipp Dobberkau speaks about the Visulisation and Analysis of CT Data.
The winners of the inspect award have been announced! A jury consisting of Anne Wendel, machine vision specialist in the Robotics + Automation Association at VDMA, Thomas Lübkemeier, General Secretary of EMVA, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Heizmann, Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Dr. Nick Leithold, until recently a cluster manager at Spectronet, as well as the readers of inspect and inspect online have decided.
The MX377 camera, the latest product from Ximea, features one of the largest sCMOS sensors available today.
The food industry is changing. While it is still too early to measure the true impacts of COVID-19 on global trade and consumption, many other factors are driving changes to food production, particularly climate change and population growth. After all, it is vision technology that supports miscellaneous improvements: for example, it helps to deliver better apples.
The Ethernet-based interface 10GigE Vision has the potential to lead the image processing industry into a new era. This new technology offers a number of innovative features for use in a wide variety of areas.
