US vision market down 8% for first half of 2020
1 September 2020
The robotics market in North America is down 18 per cent so far compared to the same period last year
Greg Blackman tries to put a figure on the cost of vision technology
Automation
Mike Wilson joins the UK Manufacturing Technology Centre as chief automation officer
18 August 2020
Wilson will lead the Manufacturing Technology Centre's drive to increase the adoption of automation throughout UK manufacturing
PIA Ningbo workers preparing the production line to make surgical masks
Labs, machine shops, cleanrooms - we need your PPE
27 March 2020
The need for PPE increases as the number of cases of Covid-19 escalates, while PIA Ningbo has purchased two abandoned production lines to make surgical face masks
Panelists from left: Christian Vollrath, Wenglor Sensoric; Rainer Schönhaar, Balluff; Peter Keppler, Stemmer Imaging; Andreas Waldl, B&R; and Dr Klaus-Henning Noffz, Basler
Vision not intuitive enough, say experts at SPS
11 February 2020
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, reports from SPS 2019 in Nuremberg, where vision system simplicity was discussed
Electric dreams
26 July 2019
As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories
UK manufacturing not investing in automation, says BARA chairman
20 June 2019
The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
MVTec and Hilscher to integrate machine vision and PLC
11 June 2019
Combining MVTec software products with Hilscher PC cards enables machine vision applications to be integrated easily into process control systems
AIA elects new board members
3 April 2019
David Dechow (pictured), Edward Roney, Ghislain Beaupré, and Jeremy Bergh have been elected to serve two-year terms on the board of directors of AIA, the Association for Advancing Vision and Imaging
VDMA Machine Vision sector group elects new board
15 October 2018
The VDMA Machine Vision sector group has elected a new board for 2018-2021 at a members’ assembly of the VDMA Robotic and Automation Association
Automation specialist switches to GigE for web inspection
13 March 2018
Italian firm Electronic Systems has upgraded its web inspection systems to GigE Vision interfaces in order to adapt to changing customer requirements
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Keely Portway looks at the trials and tribulations of bringing new technology to market, particularly in a pandemic
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
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on the difficulties the machine vision sector is facing, and why there are still plenty of positives
Vision Ventures’ director Dr Chris Yates on what the future holds for M&A activity in machine vision
As a new academic year begins, Greg Blackman finds out what students taking image processing courses in two universities have in store
Géraldine Andrieux, CEO of Blumorpho
Ahead of the Inpho Venture Summit in October, Blumorpho CEO, Géraldine Andrieux, discusses how startups should approach pitching for venture capital funding in these uncertain economic times
Greg Blackman speaks to Simon Beveridge, managing director of UK-based vision integrator Siga Vision, about installing vision systems during Covid-19
Some of Luminate's third cohort of startups. Credit: Luminate
On 14 September, 10 photonics startups from Luminate's business accelerator will present their technology during The Optical Society’s virtual conference. Greg Blackman asks Luminate MD, Sujatha Ramanujan, how these young companies are coping during Covid-19
Credit: Messe Stuttgart
Greg Blackman gathers opinion from the vision community on the impact the cancellation of Vision Stuttgart has on product releases and connecting with customers
