Acquisition

As director of Vision Ventures, Yates will support corporate transactions for both the buy and sell side of merger and acquisition projects

The acquisition follows a four-year long technology collaboration on the development of a simulator for ophthalmology slit lamp examinations, the Eyesi Slit Lamp

The private equity investor Ambienta has purchased 1st Vision, a North American distributor of machine vision

The purchase adds surface inspection and 3D machine vision to the Swedish industrial group's portfolio as its customers move towards digital manufacturing

The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves

The TKH Group has bought optical metrology firm FocalSpec to add to its portfolio of machine vision technologies

Sualab’s Suakit machine vision software uses neural networks to detect atypical and irregular defects that are not easily captured by a traditional rule-based machine vision system

Thorlabs has purchased US-based Operations Technology (Optek), a designer and manufacturer of large-format, granite-based video and x-ray dimensional measurement systems

SVS-Vistek has been bought by TKH Group, which owns Allied Vision, Chromasens, Mikrotron, NET and Tattile