A monitoring system that gives real-time information on the wear occurring on rail wheels to enhance rail safety is under development as part of the Wheelwatcher EU Horizon 2020 programme
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News
18 September 2017
Matrix Vision has become part of the Balluff Group, a sensor and automation specialist with headquarters in Neuhausen, Germany
12 September 2017
The North American machine vision market has shown record performance in the first half of 2017, demonstrating sales totalling $1.241 billion, an increase of 11 per cent
01 September 2017
Spectris has sold its code reading business Microscan Systems to Omron for a total cash consideration of $157 million
30 August 2017
Two US machine vision firms, Artemis Vision and Vaia Technologies, have met the criteria to become AIA Certified System Integrators
29 August 2017
Hyperspectral imaging firm Specim has received €3.5 million of investment from Bocap SME Achievers Fund II Ky
29 August 2017
Product design firm Cambridge Consultants has built a smart recycling unit that uses both machine vision and machine learning to help consumers identify what waste can be recycled in shops or commercial buildings
Analysis & opinion
12 September 2017
The machine vision industry is on the verge of entering a new era, one based on embedded processing, according to Basler’s CEO Dr Dietmar Ley. Greg Blackman reports from the European Machine Vision Forum in Vienna
11 August 2017
The heavens open on Jessica Rowbury as she looks at the science behind the sweet smell of summer rain
14 July 2017
Mathew Daniel at data management software provider Sciemetric Instruments explains the importance of centralised data collection in factory automation, and why image data is a key part of that
Features
09 August 2017
Boaz Arad, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Computational Vision Lab, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and winner of the EMVA Young Professional Award 2017
08 August 2017
Matthew Dale explores how thermal imaging can be used to avoid machine failure and emergency maintenance in industrial environments
08 August 2017
Greg Blackman finds that advances in LEDs and greater illumination control are furthering machine vision lighting
08 August 2017
Rob Ashwell examines how advances in medical imaging are aiding earlier diagnosis and robotic surgery
08 August 2017
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Lavi at Israeli firm Volume Elements, a company that specialises in developing vision algorithms
Resources
White paper
03 July 2017
Press Releases
11 September 2017
The first Embedded Vision Europe (EVE) conference is being held from 12 to 13 October 2017 at the ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart (Germany)
11 September 2017
Different inspection techniques can be skilfully combined, enabling easy, flawless in-process monitoring