VDMA forecasts growth for German machine vision
Industrial image processing in Germany is expected to generate sales of 3.3 billion euros in 2022 - this corresponds to an increase of 8 percent compared to the previous year.
Machine Vision
Di-Soric opens office in China
Since September 2022, Di-Soric has operated a sales, marketing and technical support office in China
Vision 2022: Machine vision fair exceeds expectations
Vision 2022 recorded 6,505 trade visitors. This made the world's leading trade fair once again the centre of the machine vision industry.
inspect America Fall now available
Read our free E-Special inspect America, our edition especially for the American market. The focus is on the Boston Vision Show.
“There is a huge drive to push AI capability to the edge”
Efinix has recently launched a mid-range FPGA. With this, the company fills the gap between low-cost-low-performance devices and very expensive high-performance ones. To mark the occasion, inspect spoke with Mark Oliver, vice president of marketing and business development, who also took the opportunity to discuss current trends. But the topic is also how Efinix is trying to enable camera developers to achieve a faster time-to-market.
Optimizing Print Cylinder Positioning in Floor Covering Production with a Complex Machine Vision System
The production process of floor coverings that look like wood has undergone an evolution that now requires accurate comprehensive testing. The imaging challenge can only be solved with a machine vision system that respects the special production conditions.
Separate Point Clouds for Multi-material Workpieces Made Easy
Winwerth Multimaterialscan enables the automatic, sub-voxel accurate calculation of separate STL point clouds per material. A typical application is, for example, workpieces with plastic and metal components.
Revolutionary Movement
Positioning movements in the nanometer range require high-precision control. A new software platform integrates the entire periphery offering more than just motion control.
Oct. 11–13, 2022, the Vision Show from the Association for Advancing Automation Returns to Boston
The Vision Show is North America’s leading machine vision and imaging event, showcasing the latest products, providing opportunities to meet leading companies, and offering educational sessions taught by top industry experts. For the first time since 2018, the show is returning to Boston Hynes Convention Center this October.
30th Vision Show 2022 Sees Strong Growth in the Number of Exhibitors
Vision, the world’s leading trade fair for machine vision, will open its doors at Messe Stuttgart from October 4 to 6, 2022. New and international players are contributing to the show’s growth. The same applies to Vision Start-up World.
Enabling the Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries
To master the main challenges of electrode inspection tasks, namely the speed of the process and the need to identify ever smaller defects, cameras must be able to keep up with the production speed of the machines. This requires a high line rate while providing enough sensitivity to allow the use of short exposure times, and sufficient pixels to cover as wide a field of view as possible.
Image Processing Secures Wafer Transportation
Until recently, robotics had been used in the individual production steps. Kuka has created a mobile robot that is also responsible for transporting the highly sensitive wafers from station to station. On board the robot is an image processing system from Cognex that is high-performing yet compact in size.
Vision: Lecture program is set
At the Vision in early October 2022, trend topics and innovations in the image processing industry will be presented and discussed. Special highlights in this context are the Industrial Vision Days and the Vision Award ceremony.
Guided Tours at Vision 2022
From 4 to 6 October, the organiser of this year's Vision, Messe Stuttgart, is offering theme-specific tours. Visitors thus have the chance to learn about trends for their industry and gain insights into various machine vision solutions.
How to build a custom embedded stereo system for depth perception
This article first describes the main parts of a stereo vision system and then provides instructions on making an own custom stereo camera using off-the-shelf hardware components and open-source software. As this setup is focused on being embedded, it will compute a depth map of any scene in real-time, without the need of a host computer.
Evotron: Machine Vision Forum again part of Motek
The "Machine Vision Forum" returns to the Motek 2022 trade fair. After a corona break, the event series on machine vision technology knowledge will be continued by the machine vision and training specialist Evotron.
International Vision Night on the eve of Vision 2022
To get in the mood for the trade fair, the International Vision Night on the eve of the opening of Vision 2022 offers a mixture of networking and celebrations in a relaxed atmosphere.
EMVA appoints new Business Development Manager
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) today announced that Oliver Scheel has joined the EMVA team as Business Development Manager, effective September 1st.
Optical Surfaces with 20 percent growth
Optical Surfaces reports how strong demand for high precision optics and optical systems from the astronomy, fundamental physics and defence communities has enabled it to exceed its annual sales target after just 7-months of 2022. This follows a 20 percent growth in sales achieved in the previous 2 years.
SVS-Vistek merged with Mikrotron
SVS-Vistek takes over all shares in Mikrotron GmbH retrospectively as of January 1, 2022. The two camera manufacturers belong to the parent company TKH Vision, the marriage is intended to open up new market segments.
Marisa Edmund is the new Chair of Edmund Optics Board
She succeeds Robert Edmund who is retiring. She will also continue to serve as chief sales and marketing officer for Edmund Optics.
Free tickets for Vision 2022
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Edmund Optics receives certification for medical devices
Edmund Optics is certified according to ISO 13485. The company thus fulfils the requirements for the manufacture of components and assemblies for medical devices.
Physik Instrumente creates space for further manufacturing capacity
Physik Instrumente has acquired an additional building in the immediate vicinity of its headquarters, into which various global corporate functions are moving. This will free up around 1,000 m² of space for production at the main plant.
Start-up World again part of the Vision trade fair
Start-up World is also part of the vision this year. According to Messe Stuttgart, 18 young companies have already signed up to present their products in Stuttgart between October 4 and 6, 2022.
Stemmer Imaging celebrates 35th anniversary
Stemmer Imaging was founded on July 27, 1987. Now the machine vision supplier is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
Instrument Systems acquires Korean manufacturer of display measurement systems
Instrument Systems acquires the Korean manufacturer of display measurement systems Kimsoptec in full. The manufacturer of cameras and measuring systems is thus strengthening its core business areas of Display Testing and Optical Metrology.
Polytec divests machine vision division
Polytec is exiting the machine vision components business on July 31, 2022. The product range will be taken over by Jumavis, which is headed by a former Polytec employee.
Vision 2022: Probably much more exhibitors than last year
The Vision machine vision trade fair is heading for major growth: currently, around 300 exhibitors have already registered, more than participated in 2021.
Sale of Vincorion completed
Jenoptik successfully completed the sale of Vincorion on June 30, 2022. Approvals have been granted by the relevant authorities and the necessary closing conditions have been met.
Automatica 2022 a Success
Almost 600 exhibitors and 30,000 visitors came to Automatica in Munich. Organisers and exhibitors are pleased
Zebra Technologies Completes Purchase of Matrox Imaging
Zebra Technologies has completed the acquisition of Matrox Imaging.
Machine vision industry grew by 16 percent in 2021
According to the VDMA, sales in the German machine vision industry rose by 16 percent in 2021, reaching 3.1 billion euros. Overall, revenues in the robotics and automation sector also grew at a double-digit rate.
Ximea presents new member of the management board
Michael Cmok has been with the company from the beginning. His expertise and organizational skills have contributed to the current success of the company.
5th European Machine Vision Forum: Call for Papers Started
The European Machine Vision Association EMVA is calling on researchers and developers to contribute to the 5th European Machine Vision Forum.
Framos GmbH
AIT Goehner GmbH
Oxford Instruments
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Euresys Inc.
Schäfter + Kirchhoff GmbH
TQ-Systems GmbH
Ximea GmbH
Cognex Corporation
COMSOL Multiphysics GmbH
Werth Messtechnik GmbH
Sick AG
Opto GmbH
Edmund Optics Europe
Lattice Semiconductor
Visometry GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG
Daimler AG
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
VDMA Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer e.V.
AMS Technologies AG
ProHawk Technology Group, Inc.
Laser 2000 GmbH
Teledyne Imaging Group
Senswork GmbH
Pixargus GmbH
ON Semiconductor
Xilinx GmbH, an AMD company
Evident Europe GmbH
Carl Zeiss AG
SensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH
SPECTARIS – German Industry Association for Optics, Photonics, Analytical and Medical Technologies
Contrinex Sensor GmbH
Precitec GmbH & Co. KG
Wiley
P.E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG
Viscom AG
TOPTICA Photonics SE
Fortec Elektronik AG
Maxlab
Jenoptik AG
TKH Group NV
Vision On Line GmbH
Texas Instruments Dt. GmbH
imec
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Kistler Instrumente AG
NEURA Robotics GmbH
Baumer Group