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inspect award 2022: Submit Your Product Now!

Machine Vision Innovation Award

06.05.2022 - The application phase for the inspect award 2022 has begun. All machine vision and optical metrology companies are invited to submit their products by May 13. This year, the six winners of the two categories will receive a trophy in a completely new design.

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At www.inspect-award.com, machine vision and optical metrology companies can submit their most innovative products free of charge to apply for the prestigious inspect award 2022. A jury of five experts will select the ten most innovative products in each of the categories "Vision" and "Automation + Control" from all the applications. The readers of inspect and all visitors of wileyindustrynews.com are then called upon to vote for the winners.

The total of six winners in the "Vision" and "Automation + Control" categories will then be awarded at the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart at the beginning of October.

20 Nominated Products are Presented in Detail in the June Issue

In the June issue of inspect (to be published on June 13) and on www.wileyindustrynews.com, the nominated products will be presented to the public in a prominent position. In the November issue, all winning products will be honored in detail. In addition, all winning companies will receive the right to use the coveted inspect award winner logo free of charge. So, it pays to take part.

The expert jury of the inspect award 2022

Paul-Gerald Dittrich holds an M. Eng. in electrical engineering/system design. He is a research associate in the field of spectral imaging at the Ilmenau University of Technology in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the department of quality assurance and industrial image processing. He also works at Spectronet as a project manager to improve project-specific collaboration between companies and research institutions that develop or apply image processing and photonics for quality assurance. (Image: Spectronet)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Heizmann: Even after his doctorate at the University of Karlsruhe in 2004 on a topic of image processing for forensic technology, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Heizmann remained faithful to image processing for many years. Since 2016, he has been Professor of Mechatronic Measurement Systems at the Institute of Industrial Information Technology IIIT at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and also Institute Director (collegial institute management) of IIIT. Since 2006, he has headed the technical committee 8.12 "Machine Vision in Measurement and Automation Technology" of the VDI/VDE- Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA). (Image: KIT)
Since 2013, Thomas Lübkemeier has led the Barcelona-based European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) as secretary general. He is an engineer in electrical/automation engineering and, among other things, was stationed abroad for several years for German companies and, after his return to Germany, was responsible as managing director for various foreign subsidiaries. (Image: EMVA)
Since 2014, Anne Wendel has been responsible for the Machine Vision department at VDMA with around 120 member companies from Europe. Her work focuses on networking events, statistical analyses, standardization, press and public relations, and trade fair policy. In the latter function, she supports the further development of Vision and Automatica, for which the VDMA is the technical and conceptual sponsor. (Image: VDMA)
David Löh: After his journalistic beginnings at daily newspapers during and after his studies, David Löh took a liking to the world of trade magazines. He started out in the automation industry, which he left in favor of an exciting assignment at a plastics trade magazine. After another stint in a responsible position, he returned to automation industry at the end of 2019 to take over as editor-in-chief of inspect.