News

Photo

IIM: New Lumimax Sales Manager for Northwest Germany

The machine vision and metrology company IIM appoints Jose Saiz as new sales manager for the LED lighting brand Lumimax. From the newly established sales office in Cologne, he is responsible with immediate effect for the region of Northwest Germany as well as the Benelux countries.

Photo

Basler Announces AI Platform for Machine Vision

Basler announces an AI platform for Machine Vision based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) artificial intelligence and machine learning services. In addition to the hardware, this includes a fully integrated edge-to-cloud software stack including the AWS Panorama Device SDK.

Photo

Zeiss opens research center in California

Zeiss opens a research and development center with associated production and customer service in Dublin, California. With this, the optics group wants to strengthen its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. It invested 180 million US dollars for this purpose. Around 700 employees will be located there.

Photo

Registration for the Wiley Beach Party has started

We are taking your order: Register now for free to attend the virtual Wiley Industry Days Beach Party on June 07, 2021 at 5pm. End your day at the trade fair with a cocktail and expand your network at the same time.

Photo

Panasonic opens Customer Experience Center (CXC) in Munich, Germany

Panasonic is expanding its activities at the Munich-Ottobrunn site: The Customer Experience Center (CXC) is now opening on the Panasonic Campus Munich. On more than 6,000 square meters, the company shows its portfolio of electro-mechanical components and systems, drives, industrial robots and pick-and-place machines for electronics manufacturing.

Photo

Heidelberg Instruments acquires Multiphoton Optics

With immediate effect, Multiphoton Optics GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH. One of the two managing directors of Multiphoton Optics will go to the new parent company, while the other will continue to run the company on his own.

Photo

Hilscher is a partner of the CIIT research center

Together with the German Industrial IT Center (CIIT), Hilscher has entered into a strategic partnership in Germany's first science-to-business center for industrial automation. The company will set up a new location with three employees in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia. The start of the cooperation between CIIT and Hilscher is planned for the middle of the year.

Photo

Basler Confirms Strong Annual Result and Gives Positive Forecast for 2021

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.

Photo

Jenoptik creates financial scope for acquisitions

Jenoptik has placed a promissory note loan in the amount of 400 million euros on the capital market. The additional funds are intended to enable the optics and photonics group to make acquisitions and investments in photonics.

1136 more News

inspect America

inspect America September 2025 available now!

inspect America September 2025 available now!

This edition covers the debut of two major trade shows in the US: SPS Atlanta and Embedded World North America, both showcasing significant advancements in the industry.