According to a survey conducted by the ZVEI among its member companies, more than half of the participating companies are already receiving fewer orders than before the crisis began.
Teledyne confirms that it’s been in advanced talks to acquire Photonis International and affiliates for about USD550m.
Ikea acquired AI imaging Startup Geomagical Labs for an undisclosed sum.
Phantom AI, developer of a vehicle-agnostic autonomous driving platform, announced it has raised USD22m in Series A financing.
While the economy in Europe and the USA is still paralysed by the corona pandemic, production in China is slowly picking up speed again.
TeDo Verlag will be organising a virtual trade fair from May 4 onwards, covering all aspects of automation, robotics and power distribution, control cabinet construction, industrial IT, IIoT etc.
The 30th Aachen Machine Tool Colloquium (AWK) will take place on June 10 and 11, 2021 at the Eurogress Aachen.
Systems leveraging AI with real-time object detection through image and video analysis can automate personal protective equipment (PPE) policy enforcement.
ProGlove, a provider of ergonomic wearables for industry, has appointed Charlie Grieco as Chief Revenue Officer for the global company.
InfraTec expands its presence in North America. Justin Jensen (picture) joins the team of InfraTec infrared LLC, a subsidiary of InfraTec GmbH in the USA, as new Sales Manager East.
To develop an OPC UA Companion Specification for non-destructive testing, a working group was founded in the DGZfP Technical Committee NDT 4.0, which is to be converted into a Joint Working Group together with the OPC Foundation and the VDMA in the course of the year.
Nvidia joins the circle of shareholders of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
Büchner Lichtsysteme was founded in March 2000 by Thomas Büchner (picture).
Foxconn has made a strategic investment of USD35.25m in China-based Luster LightTech, producer in vision imaging and fiber optics, aiming to jointly develop core smart production solutions to help manufacturers transform and upgrade their operations.
Mikrotron strengthened its North American vision camera business by appointing Concurrent EDA a Preferred Technology Partner.
Stemmer Imaging and Euresys signed a distribution agreement for Europe and Latin America on April 1. The agreement covers the distribution of CoaXPress and CameraLink frame grabbers as well as frame grabbers for analogue cameras.
The optoNCDT 1760-1000 long-range laser sensor by Micro-Epsilon also measures at distances of up to 2m with up to 7.5kHz.
The Absolute 3D laser scanner AS1-XL by Hexagon is designed for inspecting large surfaces and can be used with both the laser tracker and mobile measuring arms.
As part of the joint project ‘Dynamic-holographic measurement method for recording metallic free-form surfaces (HoloMotion)’, Fraunhofer IPM was able to show that digital-holographic measurements are also possible on moving test objects.
Foreign objects in the plastic melt are a problem in extrusion.
Dr. Heinrich Schneider Messtechnik presents the WMX 600 optical shaft measuring machine with the Quick Detect (QD) function.
Install the sensor, scan the object, visualize and evaluate measurement data, all of this can be done in just ten minutes with the new MetrologyPackage from AT Automation Technology.
ICP Germany offers the E310-10EHI-J6413, a fanless embedded system that can be used for inference systems and industrial control thanks to Hailo-8TM AI IC.
Midwest Optical’s SK100 Filter Test Kit contains 70 filters for UV, VIS and NIR imaging, making it ideal for testing and evaluating image quality.
Engineered to optimize machine vision systems operating at high speeds, Smart Vision Lights ‘Hidden Strobe’ is a solution to the prevalent issue of distracting and disorienting LED strobe lights.
The Keyence VS model series enables quick problem solving for a variety of testing applications thanks to smart hardware architecture.
The IVS 108 of Leuze’s Simple Vision series detects present or absent objects.
Imec demonstrates successful incorporation of a PPD structure in the readout circuit of thin-film-based image sensors; the first of its kind.
