Having completed a one-year break organisers of the Vision 2014 report a remarkable record comeback: For the first time more than 400 exhibitors will be on show at Stuttgart´s fairground during 4-6 November with an international participation of over 50%. The new two-year cycle will give Vision even greater magnitude, attractiveness and significance as compared to the previous annual event.

Machine vision promoting cost-effective automation

Machine vision plays a very important role in automated production and supports both quality inspections and optimisation tasks. "More and more processes are being automated and networked. This means that automation is becoming more detailed and more complex," said Thomas Nepstad, Product Marketing Manager Vision at Cognex. This is posing greater challenges for integrators and application engineers since "processes must also remain reliable, simple and easy to manage, operate and maintain," added Nepstad.
"Cost-effective production without machine vision is now almost inconceivable. And in times of Industry 4.0, machine vision is playing an increasingly more important role because without it this future strategy is unlikely to be even implemented," said Peter Stiefenhöfer, Head of Marketing and Public Relations at Stemmer Imaging. According to Stiefenhöfer, the challenge is to seamlessly integrate machine vision in the world of automation and use corresponding interfaces to ensure that the results of image analyses can be transmitted and implemented in the required time with the required precision.

Key topic „Vision 4 Automation"

In order to cope with these challenges more easily, the leading world trade fair for machine vision will examine the key topic of "Vision 4 Automation" for the first time. This key topic will look more closely at the connection between machine vision and automation. Different events aimed not only at machine vision experts, but also primarily automation users will accompany the key topic: This initiative will include the following: the Vision 4 Automation Tour, the joint stand IPC 4 Vision, a special topic block "Machine vision for automation" under the umbrella of the Industrial Vision Days, advanced training courses within the framework of the Vision Academy, the Integration Area as well as the première of the inspect application forum containing tailor-made talks on automation and finally also the special show "International Machine Vision Standards" of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA).