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.
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 Inther Group’s fully automated robotic picking solution Gripp (Gantry Robotic Intelligent Piece Picker) was developed with the aim of increasing picking throughput.
The Zeiss Automated Defect Detection (ZADD) software by Zeiss IMT makes it possible to detect even small and fuzzy defects in components reliably, quickly and automatically.
For users of Teledyne Flir fixed thermal camera solutions the Geva 400 iNspect package of Teledyne Dalsa is a simple and affordable solution.
The scanControl AIK adapter by Micro Epsilon enables integration into Cognex VisionPro via the Cognex AIK Server.
The FSM-IMX570 development kit by Framos provides vision system engineers with a framework for developing a working prototype of an indirect Time-of-Flight embedded vision system.
The 2.3MP full HD camera VM-20 with global shutter and MIPI CSI-2 – interface complements Phytec’s camera models with 1 and 5MP resolution and offers up to 120fps in full resolution.
The ECX-3000-PEG by Vecow (sales plug-in) is designed for highest computing performance and AI applications and supports up to 6656 CUDA cores, 52 RT cores and 208 tensor cores.
The NXT 3.0 software update by IDS now also enables anomaly detection for the smart NXT cameras.
The 5.2MP vision sensor VOS5000-F227-C-S by Pepperl+Fuchs with interchangeable C-mount lens offers a wide range of detection tools for flexible inspection tasks.
Based on the latest Intel Core Mobile processors of the 12th and 13th generation, the TQ Group is expanding its range in the CPU power ranges 15, 28 and 45W with the COM-Express compact modules TQMx120 and TQMx130.
Adlink’s AI Camera Development Kit simplifies prototyping and testing of edge AI vision systems.
Mikrotron’s 10MP EoSens 10CCX12-FM CXP-12 camera with global shutter takes full advantage of the maximum performance of the Gsprint 4510 CMOS sensor, allowing color images to be captured at up to to 478fps.