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Who‘s next?
Unfortunately, the coronavirus currently has the trade fair landscape firmly under its control. Almost daily, we receive reports of new cancellations or postponements of a trade fair. After Embedded World could just about be held, even though a large number of large exhibitors had already cancelled their participation at short notice, Metav, Hannover Messe and Logimat, for example, have now had to be completely cancelled or postponed due to the virus. It is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to get in touch with their customers, as the sales representatives are also finding it difficult to arrange appropriate appointments with their customers. Good that at least we are still around to keep you up to date with the latest news from image processing and measurement technology.
Kind regards
Dr.-Ing. Peter Ebert, Chief Editor inVISION
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Image: TeDo Verlag GmbH
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Topstory
Autonomous Machine Vision as a Self-Experiment
Visual inspection in parts manufacturing is expensive, complicated and error-prone - this is the general consensus. Inspekto from Heilbronn has made it its business to change this and promises a Plug&Play system that delivers reliable results in the shortest time and with minimal installation effort. The inVISION has tested this in a self-experiment.
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Image: TeDo Verlag GmbH
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March Issue of inVISION online
It has taken a long time, but now the first issue 2020 of inVISION has finally been published. You will find the ten inVISION Top Innovations 2020, the trade fair report on Embedded World as well as numerous articles on image processing, robot vision, AI and measurement technology. The market overviews deal with CoaXPress frame grabbers and line scan cameras. You can find the complete PDF of the issue behind the link.
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Image: VDMA e.V.
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Incoming Orders in German Mechanical Engineering
At the beginning of the year, mechanical engineering in Germany made a surprisingly good start. In January, new orders rose by 7% in real terms year-on-year. However, according to VDMA chief economist Dr. Ralph Wiechers, this is not a sign of a sustained economic recovery. The increase was mainly due to a number of large orders that were booked in January. Furthermore, the effects of the 'corona crisis' are expected to be clearly reflected in the order figures.
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Image: Lakesight Technologies Holding GmbH
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Foundation of Lakesight Italy
In order to strengthen the global position TKH and Lakesight Technologies decided to create a new Business Unit, merging Tattile Machine Vision Business unit with Chromasens GmbH. Starting from March 1st Chromasens takes over business responsibilities of existing customers, portfolio and new products from Tattile MV and extends this to global range. Tattile keeps focussing on Mobility business unit. Due to importance of the Italian market Lakesight announce the foundation of Lakesight Italy to guarantee the best service to all Tattile's existing customers and expand the presence on the assigned territory.
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Image: Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein
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Generation Change at Vitronic
During the celebration of Vitronic's 35th anniversary, founder Dr. Norbert Stein (r.) handed over his CEO functions to the next generation, Daniel Scholz-Stein. Together with Dr. Heiko Frohn (CTO), Matthias Pörner (CFO), Dr. Norbert Stein, Birgitt Stein, Gerhard Bär (COO) and Dr. Reinhard Koy-Oberthür, Scholz-Stein forms the management board with immediate effect. In 2018 the company, which has 1,000 employees in 24 countries worldwide, achieved a turnover of €140m.
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Image: Keyence Deutschland GmbH
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New Managing Director at Keyence Germany
Andreas Wörz has been appointed as the new managing director of Keyence Deutschland GmbH. Wörz, who has been with the company for almost 18 years, was most recently responsible for the image processing and measurement technology product areas.
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Image: i-Mation GmbH
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New General Manager at i-Mation
Since February 1, Dipl.-Ing. Georg Bacher is the new General Manager at i-Mation GmbH. Following the establishment of the Human-Like Machine Vision (Deep Learning) business unit, he will assume E2E (end-to-end) responsibility for technology, sales, project management, marketing, development and service.
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Image: Spectaris - Deutscher Industrieverband für Optik, Photonik, Analysen- und Medizintechnik e.V.
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Spectaris Honours Berndt Zingrebe
On the occasion of Spectaris' Photonics Industry Day in Erfurt, long-standing member Berndt Zingrebe (center) was awarded the Spectaris Honor Bear. Zingrebe has headed Sill Optics as Managing Director for more than three decades. During this time, the company has developed into one of the leading suppliers of industrial lenses for image processing and laser technology.
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Image: Opto GmbH
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New Sales Director at Opto
Opto GmbH has a new sales director. Thomas Rampertshammer will start building up a global Partner Network around the continuously growing Imaging Module Family.
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Image: Industrial Vision Systems Ltd
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20 Years IVS Ltd.
Industrial Vision Systems Ltd. based in Oxfordshire/UK, international supplier of machine vision systems, celebrated its 20th anniversary on March 1. Since its foundation in 2000, the company has grown continuously and today serves customers all over the world with powerful inspection systems.
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Image: Thorlabs, Inc.
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Hyperspectral Market 2024
According to Advanced Market Analytics, the Global Hyperspectral Imaging market is expected to see growth rate of 18.12% and may see market size of USD25.21b by 2024.
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Image: Trinamix GmbH
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Cooperation Trinamix and Qualcomm
BASF subsidiary Trinamix is working with Qualcomm to establish Trinamix's patented skin recognition technology as the new standard for face recognition on mobile devices. The Beam Profile Analysis technology generates three data streams from a single camera system: a 2D IR image, a 3D depth map and a material classification. The unique skin recognition technology prevents face recognition from being tricked by masks, high-resolution prints or 3D rendering of the owner's facial features.
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Image: Imec
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Collaboration Imec and CST Global
Imec and CST Global, a UK-based designer and high-volume manufacturer of III-V compound semiconductors for photonics products, announce the successful integration of InP distributed feedback (DFB) lasers from CST Global's InP100 platform into imec's integrated silicon photonics platform (iSiPP). Interfaces for hybrid integration of InP DFB lasers and reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOA) will become available as part of imec's silicon photonics prototyping services in the first half of 2021.
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Image: Data-Pixel SAS / AMS Technologies AG
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Distribution Agreement Data-Pixel and AMS
Data-Pixel is expanding its presence in Europe. The signing of a distribution agreement with AMS-Technologies will allow Data-Pixel to strengthen its presence in European countries and bring more possibilities to improve the efficiency of the manufacturing processes to all users of metrology on fiber optic connectors. AMS has offices in Germany (Headquarters), UK, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Poland.
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Image: Inspekto
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Inspekto plans first US Subsidiary
Inspekto plans to open a location in metro Detroit after forming a partnership with the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator. An exact location was not disclosed. Inspekto is in the hiring process and plans to open an assembly plant later this year.
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Image: Radalytica LLC
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Radalytica opens US Office
Radalytica, the Czech provider of X-ray photon counting and spectral imaging solutions, opens its first US subsidiary. The new office is located in Cape Coral, Florida.
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Image: NürnbergMesse GmbH
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Video: Embedded Vision everywhere!?
At the Embedded World 2020 in Nuremberg, Germany, the English panel discussion 'Embedded Vision everywhere!?' took place with participants from Allied Vision, Congatec, CST, Cubemos, Stil and Vision Components. The complete video recording of the one-hour discussion can be found on the exhibition's homepage.
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Image: Trinamix GmbH
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Successful Heidelberg MV Forum
Almost 100 participants attended the 74th Heidelberg MV Forum, which was held at Sirona Dental in Bensheim. The focus was on 'Machine Learning for 3D Imaging/Modelling'. The potential of the new algorithms was presented in various lectures, e.g. from DKFZ, Trinamix or Volume Graphics. The next BV-Forum will take place on July 7 at Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern. There, the focus will be on image processing algorithms.
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Image: TeDo Verlag GmbH
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Lecture Program Control Vision Talks
The free Control Vision Talks lecture forum at the Control trade fair in Stuttgart offers almost 30 lectures and a panel discussion. In Hall 8, Stand 8507, the topics 3D Vision & Inspection (Tuesday, 05.05.), Optical Metrology (Wednesday, 06.05.) and Spectral Imaging & CT/X-Ray (Thursday, 07.05.) will be examined in greater detail on the first three days of the trade fair. The highlight will be the panel discussion '5G as a key technology for image processing and metrology', which will take place on Wednesday (06.05.) from 12:00am.
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Image: EMVA European Machine Vision Association
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EMVA1288 Hands-On Training
Framos organizes the EMVA1288 Hands-On Training in cooperation with the EMVA. This training will be held in the companys headquarter office in Munich (Taufkirchen), Germany. Speaker will be Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne, EMVA1288 Chair since 2008 and member of the board of EMVA's directors since 2015.
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Image: EMVA European Machine Vision Association
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Call for Papers: European MV Forum 2020
EMVA's annual two-day event will take place from September 10 and 11 in Cork, Ireland. EMVA's local partner hosting the event is the Tyndall National Institute. This years focal topic is 'Accuracy, Reliability and Limits of Machine Vision'. Contributions can be submitted until no later than May 8.
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VISION VENTURES NEWS
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Image: Adaptive Vision Sp. z o.o.
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Adaptive Vision acquires Zillin.io
Adaptive Vision has acquired the online dataset annotation platform Zillin.io of QZ Solutions. The goal of the plattform is to provide an easy way to mark objects or defects on images used for training deep learning models. Adaptive Vision will invest into the product development, transforming it from a basic image annotation tool to a powerful dataset collaboration platform.
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Image: SymphonyAI
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SymphonyAI Buys TeraRecon
SymphonyAI Group, an operating group of business-to-business AI companies, acquired TeraRecon, solution provider for medical imaging. Using newly patented AI and platform technology, TeraRecon will continue to focus on expanding its open platform accelerating the use of AI in other clinical specialties, including neurology and oncology, in addition to its solutions in radiology, cardiology and vascular surgery.
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Image: HailoAI
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Hailo raises US$60m for AI Chips
Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo announced that it has raised US$60m during a Series B funding round. The new funding will help Hailo to roll out its Hailo-8 Deep Learning chip, which adapts resources to its users' custom neural networks automatically, and to get into new markets and industries.
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Image: Alphatec Holdings, Inc. / EOS imaging, SA
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Atec Acquires EOS Imaging
Medical device company Atec announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire EOS Imaging for a purchase price of up to US$88m, plus debt retirement of $33.9m. EOS imaging is specialized in outcome-improving orthopedic medical imaging and software solutions, and is recognized for its rapid, low dose, biplanar full-body imaging and 3D-modeling capabilities.
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