Electrical automation reckons with light damper Automation technology is also not immune to the general economic slowdown. In the first nine months of the current year, incoming orders in electrical automation fell by 2% year-on-year. For 2019 as a whole, sales are expected to fall by 1%, and by 2020 by 4%.
Winner Edmund Optics Educational Awards Edmund Optics announces the winners of the Educational Award 2019 for student and graduate optics projects at universities and non-profit research institutions. In America, the University of Colorado Boulder receives the Gold Award. In Europe, the Institute of Applied Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University of...
Agricultural App Developer Raises €6.6m Plantix, the Berlin-based Startup that drives efficient agricultural production, announced a ?6.6m funding round. The fresh capital will be used to improve Plantix's AI-driven solution which provides a digital method for the automated detection of plant diseases. One million farmers in India are already using...
Performance Overview of Public Vision Companies Vision Ventures monitors the performance of listed Vision companies. For example, Basler AG market cap increased over 23% on a 5.7% increase in revenue. This and other stock exchange data from December 12 are now available behind the link.
New IDS Headquarters Germany At the end of November, the completion of the new IDS headquarters was celebrated in Obersulm. By the end of 2020, 52 new offices, six meeting rooms and a canteen will be available.
Isra Expects Moderate Sales Growth Isra Vision felt the challenges of a weak market environment in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2018/2019 and recorded a slowdown in growth momentum. Based on current customer enquiries and internal annual planning, management expects double-digit growth again for the financial year 2019/2020.
19th PolyWorks User Meeting 2020 From 17 to 19 March 2020, the 19th PolyWorks User Meeting of Duwe-3d AG will take place in the Inselhalle Lindau on Lake Constance. For 3 days PolyWorks users, developers, service providers and device manufacturers will discuss their measurement challenges. Program and registration behind the link.
Asphericon Opens Subsidiary in Czech Republic After a construction period of one and a half years, the photonics company from Jena celebrated the official opening of a new production site in the Czech Republic. With numerous representatives from science and politics, Asphericon s.r.o. was officially inaugurated on November 22. From now on, precision optics...
Viisights Announces $10m Funding Viisights, a developer of behavioural understanding systems for real-time video intelligence, announced a $10m Series-A fundraising round. The compoany will use the proceeds from the fundraising to expand its sales organization, continue to enhance its current products, and develop new solutions. Its flagship product,...
Hexagon acquires Volume Graphics Hexagon AB announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Volume Graphics, a market leader in the industrial computed tomography (CT) software industry. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, Volume Graphics employs around 160 people worldwide. Subsidiaries in Japan, Singapore, China and the USA,...
Visio Nerf Opens US Office On October 1, Visio Nerf opened a new US office in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The company's main objective is to grow its business and provide local support to its US customers.
inVISION News TV: Focus Fraunhofer Vision This week at inVISION News TV we present three new vision systems from institutes of the Fraunhofer Vision Alliance. The three-minute video deals with retroreflection reflectometry (Fraunhofer IOSB), inspection system F-360° (Fraunhofer IPM) and high-speed 3D thermography (Fraunhofer IOF). The German videos also...
inVISION News TV: 3D Systems This week inVISION News TV deals with 3D. On our YouTube Channel we present three interesting 3D products and systems from SAC, Framos and FocalSpec. You can find out exactly what these are by clicking on the following link.
MV 2019 With Minus 7% Turnover According to VDMA, the German robotics and automation industry expects sales to fall by 5% to ?14.3b in 2019 (picture). For Machine Vision, a 7% decline in industry sales is expected. Integrated Assembly Solutions anticipates a decline of 5%. Robotics is currently expecting a minus of 3%. For 2020, VDMA Robotics + Automation...
Distribution Agreement Trioptics and InterOptics Trioptics and InterOptics announce the exclusive Distributor Agreement for Trioptics GmbH and its subsidiaries to market, sell, distribute and support InterOptics OptoFlat interferometer product line in selected international marketplaces. InterOptics will continue to market, sell, distribute and support its...
Cooperation Perceptron and Coherix Perceptron announced a new commercial partnership with Coherix for Bead Inspection. Coherix' Predator3D laser-based solution is installed directly on adhesive dispensing nozzles to provide real-time 3D inspection, visualization, and process control for the adhesive and sealant dispensing process, while ensuring the right...
Allied Vision launches two new Alvium camera series with FPD-Link III and GMSL2 interface.
iPF Electronic is expanding its range of lighting. There are new ring lights of the ER1Dxxx series, spotlights of the ES46xxx series and especially small spotlights of the ES16xxx series.
Alkeria has expanded its polarization cameras series with the Sony Polarsens 5MP CMOS with the Celera One P. Users can choose between the speed of a dual-USB3 interface of Celera P, and the convenience of the single USB3 interface of Celera One P. Since monochrome video format is not suitable to visualize AoLP (Angle of Linear Polarization) and DoLP (Degree of Linear Polarization) information simultaneously, Alkeria developed an advanced feature for the cameras: the FusionView feature.
The Model 4455 by Hinalea Imaging (Distributor Spehereoptics) covers an extended SWIR range from 1200 to 2100nm.
Lucid Vision announced the integration and availability of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) data transfer technology over its complete range of Atlas10 – 10GigE cameras.
The C16006 of Hamamatsu Photonics Europe is an image sensor module with a built-in CMOS linear image sensor with a Camera Link interface.
Phantom announced the TE2010, a 20 Gpx/second high-speed camera in a compact platform.
With the myMahr portal, Mahr is presenting a digital service platform.
The latest firmware release 23.07 of Roboception’s rc_reason software has some new features and improvements like detection of multiple load carriers in a scene, detection of stacked objects in SilhouetteMatch (pilot phase), automated generation of 3D models when uploading .dxf files in SilhouetteMatch and improved network settings.
The Teledyne Flir TG54-2 and TG56-2 IR pyrometers feature a larger measurement temperature range and memory compared to their predecessors.
Sick expands its Ruler3000 family with the launch of three compact cameras, as well as an additional mid-range variant.
The APDIS Intelligent Quality Stations with Nikon’s Laser Radar were developed for the fully automatic inspection of body shells and components.
