Mark Williamson elected chair of VDMA Machine Vision
Meanwhile, Frank Konrad, CEO of Hahn Automation, was elected chairman of VDMA Robotics and Automation; Basler's Dr Dietmar Ley deputy chair
Meanwhile, Frank Konrad, CEO of Hahn Automation, was elected chairman of VDMA Robotics and Automation; Basler's Dr Dietmar Ley deputy chair
Manufacturing firms must help inspire young engineers as production plants embrace digital technologies, Matthew Dale finds
Greg Blackman speaks to Dirk Engelbrecht who is bringing the automation value chain together through his online platform
The VDMA pointed to a number of green technologies – including plans for the sixth largest solar power plant in the world to be built in Turkey – that are driving growth in automation equipment sales
Greg Blackman explores the efforts underway to improve connectivity in factories
Prof Dr Bernd Jähne, chair of EMVA 1288 and senior professor at HCI, Heidelberg University, gives a preview of release 4.0 of the EMVA standard 1288
VDMA Robotics and Automation stated that the 'coronavirus crisis has highlighted how vulnerable industrial production has become in global value chains'
Robotics, assembly and manufacturing experts are currently converting industrial production lines in record time to help cope with the corona pandemic
A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition