As a highlight at the end of the first day of the Vision in Stuttgart, the first ever inspect awards were presented and celebrated at the Wiley and inspect stand. After the jury made the nominations early in the summer, the readers of inspect and messtec drives Automation had the chance to vote for the winners until late September. The winners of the inspect award 2017 are: 

Category Automation:

1. Datalogic – OCR Smart Camera P19
2. Sick – 3D Vision Sensor Trispector
3. Leuze – Camera-based Code Reader DCR 200i

Category Control:

1. Zeiss – Chromatic White Light Sensor DotScan
2. Flir – MWIR High Speed Camera X6900sc
3. Olympus – Microscope Series BX3M

Category Vision

1. Keyence – High-end Machine Vision Platform XG-X
2. Edmund Optics – Objective Series Cx
3. Raytrix – 3D Light-Field Technology

Stefano Savino, the responsible product manager at Datalogic said, “On behalf of Datalogic, we are honored to be presented with the inspect award 2017. The award confirms to our development team that we are on the right path with easy-to-use and dedicated machine vision solutions. I personally appreciated that the award ceremony took place at the Vision show, the best place for receiving the first prize for the Impact+ OCR (P19 Smart Camera), our smart machine vision solution for variable data printing inspection in the Food & Beverage industry.”
Andreas Bucher, Product Manager for Bridge Systems at Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik, expressed his delight: “It makes us proud to have a product in our portfolio that not only scores with its technical brilliance, but has also found favour in the eyes of the readers with regard to design and has been voted into first place. With our White Light Sensor DotScan we are going to set a new milestone in optical metrology.”
The reader prize, a high quality reflex camera, was won by Mr Otto Nilz from the company Duometric. We would like to thank all those who participated in the voting. Companies who would like to enter an innovative product in the competition for the inspect award 2018 are welcome to apply now under www.inspect-award.com. The closing date is 31^st March 2017.