Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, writes about the importance of free trade for the machine vision sector, and what the VDMA is doing to promote this
Sofradir and its subsidiary Ulis are investing €150 million in the French initiative Nano 2022 to develop the next generation of infrared detectors
The private equity fund Ambienta, which recently sold Lakesight Technologies, has bought Image S, an Italian distributor of machine vision products
Matthew Wasley, knowledge transfer manager of photonics at Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network, says support is at hand for businesses wanting to collaborate
The Vision trade fair, to take place in Stuttgart, Germany from 6 to 8 November, is to feature a networking initiative financed by the European Commission. Business Beyond Borders aims to help SMEs become more active internationally
Anne Wendel, director of the VDMA Machine Vision group, discusses the VDMA’s new campaign promoting the EU called Europe Works
Updates from Ian Alderton, UKIVA chairman; Anne Wendel, director VDMA Machine Vision; and Thomas Lübkemeier, EMVA
Denis Bulgin speaks to two senior members of the UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) - Mark Williamson, former UKIVA chairman, and Paul Wilson, UKIVA vice chairman - to examine the prospects for the UK and European vision markets following Britain's decision to leave the EU
Newly appointed European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) president and chief scientist at Adimec
With the Greek economic crisis providing the backdrop, Greg Blackman reports from the European Machine Vision Association's business conference in Athens
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
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
