Wenzel-Partnership in Russia Wenzel introduces Kamadi as a new partner in Russia. The St. Petersburg based company implements industrial control solutions with full service support and has been on the market for 18 years. More than 40 employees support more than 500...

MyVGL Viewer Day in Heidelberg Volume Graphics is hosting the myVGL Viewer Day on February 11, 2020 in Heidelberg. Users of the free Viewer myVGL will learn how to perform analyses, measurements and visualizations of their CT data. There are still a few seats available.

Apple Purchased Xnor.ai Apple has confirmed that it purchased the AI start-up Xnor.ai. Founded in 2016 Xnor.ai has developed technology that runs deep learning models on edge devices, such as phones, IoT devices, cameras, drones and embedded CPUs. The technology could...

Vision Standards Meeting in Montreal The next International Vision Standards Meeting will be held in Montreal, Canada, May 25 to 29 and is organized by Matrox Imaging. During the IVSM, work will be done on existing standardization projects such as GenICam, GigE...

Cooperation SphereOptics and Wasatch Photonics SphereOptics now distributes Wasatch Photonics spectrometers and VPH gratings in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Wasatch solutions are OEM ready and can be integrated accordingly. Customer specific requirements can be...

40 Years Opto GmbH In 1980 Opto Sonderbedarf GmbH was founded, i.e. this year the current Opto GmbH is already 40 years old. In 1996, Managing Director Markus Riedi took over the company and since then he has steered the fate of the manufacturer of imaging modules.

Sick Augments Executive Board Sick AG has expanded its Executive Board with effect from January 1st 2020. The Supervisory Board appointed Dr. Tosja Zywietz for the Operations portfolio in the sensor producer's Executive Board. The newly created portfolio consolidates...

Q-DAS Information Day 2020 The free Q-DAS Information Day will take place on February 12th in Weinheim. Experts will present the areas of application in which the Q-DAS Statistical Software Version 13 is entering. Highlights include a new license model and usability...

Declining Numbers in German Mechanical Engineering In November 2019, order intake in the mechanical engineering sector in Germany fell by 15% in real terms compared with the previous year. While orders from domestic customers fell by 15%, foreign customers ordered 14%...

New IFR President The robotics association IFR has elected Steven Wyatt (m.) as its new president. He succeeds Junji Tsuda, Yaskawa (l.), who had been in office since December 2017. Wyatt is Global Head of Portfolio and Digital for ABB's Robotics & Discrete...

Pyramid Computer goes North America Pyramid Computer announced new North America operations, based in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Josef Schneider, CEO of Pyramid Computer GmbH in Germany, said: "We are thrilled to announce an experienced sales and leadership team to...