The Chinese glass manufacturer Ctiec chose Isra’s Floatscan Thin Superior system to automate the quality control in its ultra-thin glass production
Dr Johannes Meyer (left) and EMVA president Jochem Herrmann
Dr Johannes Meyer, a PhD graduate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has been presented with the European Machine Vision Association’s Young Professional Award
Greg Blackman explores some novel ways of imaging glass, including a 3D technique to measure the flatness of glass panels
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
Chinese glass producer Wuhan Changli has improved quality control on its production lines by installing an automated inspection system. The company manufactures more than 12 million square metres of low emissive glass per year
Greg Blackman on the intricacies of the lighting and camera systems required for high-speed glass inspection
The properties of glass can both help and hinder pinpointing defects in the material, as Greg Blackman discovers
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
