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Greg Blackman gathers opinion from the vision community on the impact the cancellation of Vision Stuttgart has on product releases and connecting with customers
Laser Components (booth 449) will be displaying the Albalux FM white light laser module
On 1 November, Fredrik Wikfeldt took over as CEO of Laser Components Nordic
CCS now offers a range of OLED industrial lighting panels, which are opening up new possibilities in machine vision, writes Paul Downey, marketing manager at CCS Europe
Laser Components now offers a digital laser driver for driving and monitoring selected Flexpoint laser modules
Laser Components will present its Flexpoint line laser module in a square casing
Laser Components USA has launched the Albalux FM at SPIE Photonics West. Albalux FM is a laser white light module with fibre optic output for illumination in medical and machine vision applications
The Flexpoint MVstereo laser module from Laser Components is now available with truly random patterns, with 31,806 or 47,708 dots
Laser Components (1G31) will present its first Flexpoint line laser module in a square casing, the MVsquare (65 x 15 x 15mm). This latest addition to the Flexpoint MV series was designed for quick and easy installation during series production of 3D systems for industrial image processing. Focus, beam position and all other parameters are aligned during production according to customer specifications.
Manufacturers of illumination systems for machine vision will present their latest developments at Vision 2018 from 6 to 8 November 2018. Hyperspectral imaging has boosted innovations in lighting
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
