Stemmer Imaging concludes Infaimon acquisition
18 July 2019
Stemmer Imaging has concluded the acquisition of the Spanish group Infaimon
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
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Japanese firm Macnica completes ATD Electronique acquisition
18 July 2019
Joining the Macnica group will enable ATD to enhance its system-level design support for imaging applications
SPIE acquires Xmark Media to run Photonex UK trade fair
21 June 2019
The organiser of Photonex, Xmark Media, has been bought by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Stemmer Imaging buys Infaimon for bin picking tech
28 May 2019
Stemmer Imaging has acquired Spanish firm Infaimon for a deal reported to be in the low tens of millions of euros
Teledyne buys Princeton, Photometrics and Lumenera
3 January 2019
Teledyne Technologies has acquired the scientific imaging businesses of Roper Technologies, including Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera, for $225 million
Ambienta buys Image S to repeat Lakesight project
11 December 2018
The private equity fund Ambienta, which recently sold Lakesight Technologies, has bought Image S, an Italian distributor of machine vision products
Best practice for buyouts
31 October 2018
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
Recipe for M&A success
26 October 2018
Gabriele Jansen, owner and managing director of Vision Ventures, gives her advice on what makes a successful merger and acquisition transaction
CCS lighting firm buys competitor Effilux
23 October 2018
Japanese LED lighting manufacturer CCS has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of its French competitor Effilux
Lakesight bought by TKH to create vision super entity
16 October 2018
Lakesight Technologies has been acquired by the TKH Group, the Netherland’s-based company that owns Allied Vision, NET, and LMI Technologies
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Keely Portway looks at new terahertz and infrared technologies being developed to inspect aircraft
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
Suprateek Banerjee, VDMA Robotics and Automation, gives an update on OPC Machine Vision, which provides uniform integration of machine vision systems into higher IT production systems
Zeiss's Smartzoom 5 digital microscope can remove glare from images by using angular illumination
Reporting from the EMVA’s business conference in Copenhagen, Greg Blackman discovers how angular illumination and computational imaging can dramatically improve the resolution of a system
Greg Blackman reports on the discussion around embedded vision at the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in mid-May
Test image at 940nm
Imec is working to industrialise thin-film photodetector stacks on CMOS in order to fabricate low-cost infrared image sensors, as the Belgian institute’s Dr Paweł Malinowski explains
Greg Blackman reports on CSEM's Witness IOT camera, an ultra-low power imager that can be deployed as a sticker. Dr Andrea Dunbar presented the technology at Image Sensors Europe in London in March
Greg Blackman reports on the complexities of training AllGo Systems' driver monitoring neural networks, which the firm's VP of engineering, Nirmal Kumar Sancheti, spoke about at the Embedded World trade fair
Greg Blackman reports from the Image Sensors Europe conference in London, which took place from 13 to 14 March