The laser optics manufacturer Quality Thin Films, USA, acquired at the end of 2020, has been renamed Edmund Optics Florida. Under this company name, the company now produces short-pulse optics with low group delay dispersion (GDD) and optics with high laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT).
Coherent beam combining can generate different energy distribution patterns particularly quickly during operation.
Measuring the collective motion of a glass sphere in a laser trap.
IDS exceeded industry expectations in the first half of 2021. Instead of the 7 percent increase in sales forecast for the machine vision industry by the VDMA, the company has so far more than doubled its growth.
Osconiq E 2835 CRI90 (QD) pushes efficiency values to new heights, even at very high color rendering indices and warm light colors.
II-VI introduces high-efficiency multifunctional metalenses for ultracompact optical sensors.
A new type of electronic paper offers an optimal color display while using ambient light.
ON Semiconductor has a new brand name: Onsemi. With this, the supplier of power supplies and sensors wants to emphasize its continued focus on the automotive and industrial markets.
The camera manufacturer Basler achieves the strongest half-year in the company's history in terms of sales, profit and incoming orders. Compared to the same period last year, sales increased by 30 percent and profit by more than 60 percent.
In the white paper "A Mobile Revolution", the International Federation of Robotics examines how mobility is impacting robotics and why this is a groundbreaking development. The use of autonomous mobile robots is increasing not only in industry and logistics, but also in public spaces.
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Society’s next vice president is also co-chair of SPIE Photonics West BiOS conference
Torsten Nolting took over as head of ABB's Electrification business area in Germany on August 1, 2021. He succeeds Uwe Laudenklos, who became Lead Business Area Manager Northern and Central Europe for the same business area on April 1 of this year.
Effective immediately, Susanne Kretzschmar will strengthen the strategic market development of the machine vision software Halcon as Commercial Product Manager at MVTec.
ON Semiconductor's sales in the second quarter of 2021 are up 38 percent year-on-year. Structural changes and strong demand are the main drivers of this development, the semiconductor group reports.
Opto-mechanical deflection units manufactured in the clean room enhance stability and reduce costs in laser material processing.
Additive manufacturing with wire and powder enables resource-efficient and cost-effective wear-resistant coatings.
Company sells non-optical process metrology business for grinding machines to Marposs.
Supercell metasurfaces for multifunctional wide-angle optics and lasing.
Effective August 1, Alexander Lewinsky became Managing Director of camera manufacturer IDS. The engineer takes over the operational management of the Obersulm-based company alongside Jan Hartmann. Company founder and shareholder Jürgen Hartmann remains responsible for development and product management.
Polish integrator Astor becomes Technology Partner for Photoneo's 3D vision and automation solutions for the Polish market.
New EU guidelines for the recycling of fabrics and textiles have been in force since 2018. The aim of this very important project for the environment is to reuse all textiles worldwide from 2025. Hyperspectral imaging offers the technical requirements for successfully achieving this ambitious goal.
Polychromatic white light from OLEDs avoids negative health effects.
A novel software platform with a modular, scalable design enables the integration of end-to-end solutions for Industrial Computer Vision as well as the creation, distribution and maintenance of Deep Learning-based quality and compliance checks across the enterprise.
BitFlow CoaXPress frame grabber used in groundbreaking new 3D imaging system.
The sensor and automation manufacturer Balluff is building another office and administration building at its headquarters in Neuhausen a. d. F., Germany, which will accommodate 530 employees. The groundbreaking ceremony was held this Wednesday, and the building is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in summer 2023.
Project towards standardization of machine condition monitoring in laser beam powder bed fusion.
Acquisition strengthens the company’s position in Europe in the defense and civil markets.
A five-nanometer-thick layer of silver and copper outperforms conventional indium tin oxide.
Landesmesse Stuttgart calls the balance sheet for the 2020 financial year the "worst result in the company's history". The restrictions of the corona pandemic led to a more than halved turnover and a fat minus in the result. Similar figures are also expected for 2021. But the organizer of Vision trade fair is optimistic that physical trade fair operations can at least begin again from September.
Following successful cooperation in numerous automation projects, Vision Machine Technic Bildverarbeitungssysteme (VMT), and the special machine manufacturer Cadkon are joining forces in the form of a partnership. From now on, the companies will coordinate their automation solutions for laboratory automation as well as pharmaceutical and medical technology more closely.
The new functions of an operating light, such as an adjustable color temperature and a variable light field diameter, got the test engineers into hot water: they simply could not be verified with conventional measurement technology. Therefore, together with a light measurement specialist, they developed a new test stand including a partially automated measurement process.
