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02.07.2021 • News

Wenglor focuses on machine vision

The sensor and machine vision expert Wenglor Sensoric realigned its internal development centers and business units at the beginning of June. Thus, the areas of 2D machine vision, 2D/3D sensors, code scanners and software were combined in the Wenglor MEL business unit. In turn, the development and production of optoelectronic and inductive sensors takes place in the Sensor Technology business unit. In this way, the Group intends to strengthen its two business units Sensors and Machine Vision.

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01.07.2021 • News

Review: EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021

With a participation of 135 participants from 23 nations the 19th EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021 took place online. A total of 20 speeches, two fireside chats and two CEO/Management panel discussions covered virtually all current actual economic and technical topics that the machine vision world currently deals with. During the individual B2B sessions about 90 virtual bilateral video meetings were arranged between conference attendees before and after the conference program in the afternoons.

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01.07.2021 • News

New Release 4.0 of EMVA 1288 Standard for Camera Characterization in Effect

The EMVA  announced that the new release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 Standard for objective characterization of industrial cameras, which is successfully used worldwide, has become effective. The release takes into account the rapid development of camera and image sensor technology. The EMVA 1288 standard, hosted by EMVA, is part of the global G3 standardization initiative in which the five leading machine vision organizations A3, CMVU, EMVA, JIIA, and VDMA cooperate.

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29.06.2021 • News

ZVEI: The world market for microelectronics is growing despite the pandemic

"During the 2020 corona pandemic, the global microelectronics market grew by 6.8 percent to 440 billion US dollars compared to the previous year," said Dr. Sven Baumann, ZVEI expert for microelectronics, sensors and actuators, on the occasion of the ZVEI press conference to present the current ZVEI microelectronics trend analysis. In particular, the strong demand for electronics for the home office (such as PCs) and consumer electronics (such as game consoles and TVs) established this upward trend.

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29.06.2021 • News

Excelitas wants to take over PCO

Excelitas Technologies has signed a binding agreement to take over PCO AG from Kelheim. PCO is a privately held company and a developer and manufacturer of high quality scientific CMOS cameras for imaging in biomedical and high-speed industrial applications. Excelitas will acquire 100 percent of the shares in PCO AG from its founder Dr. Emil Ott acquire.

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24.06.2021 • News

HD Vision Systems becomes a partner of Bosch Rexroth platform

HD Vision Systems is now making functions and interfaces to standard area scan cameras available as a vision suite in the ecosystem of the ctrlX Automation automation platform from Bosch Rexroth. In addition, the two companies are developing customer-based machine vision applications and a use case for object recognition and oriented positioning using a Cartesian robot.

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21.06.2021 • News

Sigmatek equips the photovoltaic laboratory at HTL Salzburg

The company takes care of the practical training of the next generation of engineers: In the photovoltaic laboratory of the electrical engineering department at the HTBLuVA Salzburg, modern automation technology is now available to the students.

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21.06.2021 • News

The Igus founding couple celebrates their 90th birthday

In 1964 Günter and Margret Blase founded the igus company in their backyard garage in Cologne-Mülheim. In 2021 the international company will supply customers all over the world with its lubrication-free and maintenance-free products. On the occasion of the 90th birthday of the founding couple, Igus is now bringing the garage back to life.

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