June/July 2021

Vial statistics
Greg Blackman explores quality control measures taken to make the glass bottles filled with vaccines
Fulfilling vision’s potential
With logistics experiencing huge growth, Keely Portway considers business opportunities for vision companies in warehouse automation
Final call for digital flight maintenance
Matthew Dale takes a bird’s eye view of aircraft inspection, where drones equipped with vision are replacing manual checks
Calibration across the spectrum
Leslie Lyons, business development manager for light metrology at Pro-Lite Technology, says spectral camera calibration needs a spectrally tunable light source
Start small and start quickly with AI: advice from Automate Forward
Greg Blackman reports from the Association for Advancing Automation's latest digital show on the advances being made using AI for industrial inspection

Latest issue
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