After its positive première in 2014, the inspect application forum followed up with a successful and increasingly international event on the Vision in Stuttgart this year. Altogether, more than 350 visitors to the fair, half of them from abroad, took the opportunity to attend the diverse 30-minute talks and gain detailed insights into the current application and development possibilities in machine vision. Under the motto “Vison 4.0 – Smart Vision for Smart Factories,” innovative systems and solutions were presented from the fields of Best Practice, 3D Inspection, Automotive, Robotics, Virtual Reality, Food & Beverage and Embedded Vision.

Both visitors and exhibitors appreciated the pleasant and relaxing atmosphere right next door to the busy fair. The adjacent inspect Lounge was under constant use for shop talk and networking. The companies represented in the forum were also more than satisfied with the results. Fredrik Sylvan, Produkt Manager at Sick: “The forum was great and we had several discussions and visits to our booth related to our talk.”

Video recordings of the presentations during the forum were recorded by our partner Spectronet and are now available on this site.

Best Practice

• Steven King - Microscan Systems: Becoming the Factory of the Future: How to Prepare Now for the Industrial Internet of Things
• Stefan Basig – Compar:  Visionexpert 5 – Connect the World Bildverarbeitungsplattform

3D Inspection

• Chi Ho Ng - LMI Technologies:  Advancing Factory Automation  with Smart 3D Inspection
• Fredrik Sylvan – Sick:  Intuitive 3D Inspection for the Smart Factory
• Roger Schelbert – Credimex:  SmartRay 3D-Laserscanner – das Herzstück zur Closed Loop Prozessbeherrschung auf CresaLine

Automotive

• Dr Özgur Tan – Polytec:  Inspection of Surfaces with Height Information
• Stefan Bertele – Matrix Vision: Fertigungskontrolle mit selbstlernender Smart Camera – einfach und intuitiv konfiguriert

Robotics & Virtual Reality

• Marc Burzlaff – Engrotec:  Robot Guidance Advanced  System von AI
• Thor Vollset – Tordivel:  3D Stereo Vision and Vision Guided Robots
• Max Larin – Ximea:  Virtual Reality Starts with Reality – The Challenges and Complexities when Designing the Capturing System

Food & Beverage

• Stefano Savino – Datalogic:  Identification Beyond Barcode
• Massimo Castelletti – Opto Engineering:  Smart Vision and Optical Solutions for the Food and Beverage Industry

Embedded Vision

• Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro - Lumenera Corporation:  Building a Vision System for Embedded Platforms Using Linux ARM Processors
• Christoph Wacker - Dream Chip Technologies (DCT):  OpenCL Object Detection Using Basler dart BCON