Teledyne Technologies has acquired the scientific imaging businesses of Roper Technologies, including Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera, for $225 million
The private equity fund Ambienta, which recently sold Lakesight Technologies, has bought Image S, an Italian distributor of machine vision products
Greg Blackman reports from the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference, where a panel of industry experts were gathered to give advice on navigating the acquisition process
Gabriele Jansen, owner and managing director of Vision Ventures, gives her advice on what makes a successful merger and acquisition transaction
Japanese LED lighting manufacturer CCS has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of its French competitor Effilux
Lakesight Technologies has been acquired by the TKH Group, the Netherland’s-based company that owns Allied Vision, NET, and LMI Technologies
Flir Systems has added traffic analysis software to its product portfolio with the acquisition of Acyclica
US firm Imaging Solutions Group has been bought by Jadak, a business unit of Novanta. Through the acquisition, Jadak has added ISG’s smart cameras and imaging systems to its product portfolio
Metrology and photonics company, Jenoptik, has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of Otto Vision Technology and Ovitec, both specialising in optical inspection systems
Flir Systems has made a strategic investment in Cvedia, a software company that helps users develop machine learning applications
Dr Reinhard Heister at VDMA Robotics and Automation on the plans for the new OPC Vision standard
Greg Blackman reports on the latest lens technology presented during Vision Stuttgart, including optics designed to withstand shock
Matthew Dale discovers embedded processing and new CMOS technology are bringing advances to medical and life science imaging
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers
Greg Blackman on how advances in lighting, optics, and sensor technology are turning hyperspectral imaging into an industrial inspection tool
