Greg Blackman tries to put a figure on the cost of vision technology
Quality assurance
Visual inspection product for QA
6 March 2020
Inspekto is offering QA managers a free demonstration of its visual inspection product on the end user’s own production line
Freefall inspection and other quests for quality
29 March 2019
Ahead of the Control trade fair in May, Greg Blackman speaks to Fraunhofer IPM about three new systems it will present for quality inspection
Israeli start-up Inspekto wins $10m investment for QA tech
18 October 2018
Israeli start-up Inspekto has won US $10 million of investment for its QA inspection equipment
Multisensor systems and 3D scanning on display at Control
28 April 2016
Greg Blackman reports from the Control trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany, where multisensor inspection systems and 3D scanners, all using vision technology, were on display
Made to measure
30 March 2016
Greg Blackman on the growing use of vision technology in production machines for quality control inspection
Keeping European production competitive?
10 April 2014
Greg Blackman finds that, in a world where large-scale manufacturing is now predominantly located in Asia and emerging markets, Europe still has a lot to offer when it comes to inspection equipment and quality control
Quality in quantity
22 October 2010
Quality assurance inspections are the bread and butter for machine vision. Greg Blackman looks at some classic QA applications using vision
Latest issue
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
