Hamamatsu With Revenue Growth Net sales are ?1.2b (up by 1.1% from last year, +?12.5m). Sales in the industrial field declined significantly due to U.S.-China trade conflict and downhold of capital investment, but this was covered by medical-bio field and reached a record high. Operating income is ?212.5m (down by 6.8% from last year, -?15m). Caused by...
New Baumer Site in Northern Macedonia Baumer has opened a new production site near Skopje, in Northern Macedonia. In the first construction phase, a building with a total capacity of 4,000m² was erected on the 19,000m² site, of which 2,500m² is production space and 600m² is pure development and administration space. In addition, there is sufficient free...
Stemmer Grows by 30% in 1st Quarter In the first three months of the planned short fiscal year 2019, Stemmer Imaging AG posted growth of +29.7% to ?30.5m (previous year: ?23.5m). The above-average increase is due to the sales of the consolidated Infaimon Group as well as higher sales contributions of the subsidiaries, especially in Sweden and France. The...
Jenoptik Posts Rise in Revenue Over the first nine months of 2019, Jenoptik generated revenue of ?595.7m, slightly up on the high level of the prior-year figure of ?593.4m. Key drivers of this growth were the contributions to revenue of approximately ?52m from the companies acquired in 2018, good business with the semiconductor equipment industry, and in...
Seminar 'Introduction to IBV' On December 10, Visioning organizes the seminar 'Introduction to Industrial Machine Vision' in Düsseldorf, Germany. Typical applications of machine vision and the management of vision projects will be described. The extension of the seminar series to two parts is planned for 2020.
Successful Robot Days at Willich For the 4th time Willich Elektrotechnik organized its Robot Days in Bebra, Germany. Over two days an interesting and varied programme was presented in the company's own exhibition and training centre. In addition to lectures and live demonstrations by MIR, Stäubli, Schunk and other partners, there was ample opportunity for...
Image Sensors Europe 2020 The 4th annual Image Sensors will take place in London, March 10 to 12, 2020, and offers the chance to network with over 240 attendees and hear keynote speakers, including representatives from Sony, Basler, Samsung and more. The complete agenda ist now available behind the link.
New COO at Lakesight Since September 2019 Thomas Dekorsy has been Executive Integration Officer at Lakesight Technologies. Simultaneously he is the Managing Director of Mikrotron and SVS-Vistek. Dekorsy will start as COO of Lakesight from December 1, 2019, taking over the position of Valentino Bello in the management team.
Onto Innovation combines Nanometrics and Rudolph Onto Innovation announces the successful completion of the merger of equals between Nanometrics and Rudolph Technologies. With the Merger, Onto Innovation is expected to be the fourth largest semiconductor capital equipment supplier by revenue in the U.S. and a top 15 semiconductor equipment company by...
30 Years of SPS Trade Fair The trade fair for smart and digital automation is taking place for the thirtieth time. Startups and world market leaders will present their products and solutions to trade visitors from 26 to 28 November in Nuremberg. Participants at this year's event will also be invited to embark on a journey through time and the history of...
Zebra Technologies acquires Cortexica Vision Systems based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Cortexica enhances Zebra's solution framework through the introduction of new computer vision-based AI that enables Zebra to address a range of emerging use-cases that complement its core portfolio.
inVISION News TV: IPCs for Vision This week inVISION News TV deals with innovations in the field of industrial PCs suitable for industrial image processing applications. Three new products are briefly presented in the three-minute video.
OPC MV Demonstrator at the SPS fair VDMA and the OPC Foundation present a practical implementation of the OPC UA for Machine Vision Part 1 Companion Specification at the SPS fair. A hardware demonstrator was developed as a joint project by five partners (Asentics, Peer Group, Robert Bosch Manufacturing Solutions, Vitronic and VDMA Robotics + Automation)...
New Distributor for Gardasoft in North America Gardasoft has appointed CCS America as the master distributor of Gardasoft controllers and accessories in North America. Both are sister companies within the Optex group. Gardasoft will continue to support the market for its traffic strobe lights directly from its US office in Weare, NH.
New Cooperation Imago and Prophesee Prophesee, manufacturer of event-based vision systems and Imago Technologies, manufacturer of embedded vision components, have signed a new cooperation agreement. Luca Verre (l.) CEO of Prophesee and Imago CEO Carsten Strampe (r.) are pleased about the cooperation in the field of industrial image processing and the...
Certification as EMVA1288 expert The correct application of the EMVA1288 camera standard is not possible without appropriate knowledge. The EMVA has therefore decided to offer training courses and to link these with certification examinations on two levels.
The Excelitas PAX-3 is a 2W Pulsed Xenon Light Source, with a design that is 17% smaller than its µPAX-2 predecessor (the new PAX-3 replaces the older generation µPAX-2).
The Wenglor Discovery Tool is a software for searching and finding Wenglor Machine Vision devices in the network – independent of the network configuration of the system or the PC.
The compact ID readers of the ID-600 series by Di-Soric offer an upgradeable software scope, a robust illumination concept, M12 interchangeable optics as well as extensive optics accessories.
The two 24MP cameras of the Aramis Adjustable 24M Sensor by Zeiss IMT capture even the smallest details of 3D displacements and surface strains – for both point-based and full-surface measurements.
Photoneo releases Locator Studio 1.1.0 – the new version of the company’s 3D picking tool for localization and picking of oriented and semi-oriented items in collision-free environments.
Vzense’s DS series, DS86 and DS87, are industrial-grade depth cameras based on Sony CW iToF chip technology.
Mahr is presenting the mobile surface measuring device for the first time at the EMO 2023.
Efinix´s Titanium Ti180 J484 Development Kit has everything to develop and prototype designs for the Ti180 FPGA.
OPT’s launched self-developed liquid lens. Under combined applications with smart code readers and industrial cameras, it exhibits outstanding performance, achieving instantaneous focusing and offering more flexibility in working distance.
Vision & Control’s new telecentric microscope (TOM) objectives in rugged industrial design are designed to meet requirements related to precise measurements of the smallest objects.
The hybrid spot lighting system iLight by iCore (Distribution Rauscher GmbH) is a combination of a special hybrid light source that combines an LED and a laser source and is controlled by a special controller.
Vieworks showed a first demo of the VT-9K5X2-H5501-256 camera at the Automatica. The new Time Delayed Integration camera with a BSI image sensor by Gpixel provides faster line rates and higher sensitivity than existing TDI cameras.
