Ametek Surface Vision strengthens management team Ametek has announced significant additions to its global leadership team. Ben Wileman has been promoted to Division Vice President and Business Manager for Surface Vision. In operations, Alan Tarry will become Division Vice President Operations for Ametek Land and Surface Vision. The new Vice President...
ON Semi announced discontinuation of CCDs ON Semiconductor (On Semi) has announced a short-term discontinuation of its CCD image sensor production. All CCD products are impacted by this change. For those devices that have no recommended replacement identified, ON Semi has partnered with Rochester Electronics who will carry any remaining device inventory to...
Launch of inVISION TV From now on, various new products will be presented on the YouTube Channel inVISION TV at regular intervals. You can find our first video with three very interesting products under the following link...
MV Forum at Sony Stuttgart with 150 participants Almost 150 participants attended the 73rd Heidelberg Image Processing Forum, which this time took place at Sony in Stuttgart and focused on image sensor technology. Among others, Prof. Dr. Theuwissen presented the possibilities for CMOS through Deep Trench Isolation, Sony presented future polarization chips...
New Center for Optics Production in Aachen With a competence center in Aachen, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology networks companies and research into a new photonics location. In the 'Aachen Center for Optics Production' (ACOP), the researchers are pooling their expertise with the regional optical industry. Eleven companies have agreed to...
New Senior Director Industrial metrology at Toptica From October 1, Dr. Holger Quast will assume strategic and operational management of the Biophotonics, Life Sciences and Industrial Metrology divisions of the technology company Toptica. In the past, Quast was Managing Director of Toptica's long-standing partner SynView and Venture Director of Siemens...
Cooperation Pleora and Mission Control Space Services Pleora Technologies and Mission Control Space Services have announced a strategic partnership. The companies will combine their respective expertise in real-time sensor networks and AI for robot control and automation. The goal is to provide enhanced driver support in local situational awareness (LSA)...
Advanced 3D Image Processing Workshop The workshop 'Advanced 3D Image Processing and Analysis with Amira Software' will take place at the University of Freiburg from 15 to 16 October. The workshop includes introductions, lectures and hands-on sessions on selected topics and functionalities of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Amira software. The software offers a...
W3+ Fair Rheintal with successful start From 18 to 19 September, the W3+ Fair Rheintal took place in the Dornbirn exhibition centre in Austria. After six events in Wetzlar, it expanded for the first time into the four-country region on the Rhine. More than 100 exhibitors and partners from the optics, photonics, electronics and mechanics sectors as well as...
Creaform appoints new DACH Sales Manager Creaform has appointed Stefan Hoheisel as its new Sales Manager for the DACH region. Based in Stuttgart, Hoheisel will be responsible for developing and managing the sales strategy as well as coaching and managing the sales team in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, he worked as a sales engineer at...
AI Detects Facial Anomalies The use of automated face recognition for personal identification continues to grow. But this authentication method is vulnerable to morphing attacks. A single passport featuring a photograph manipulated this way can then be used by two different people. Together with their partners, Fraunhofer research teams are developing a...
Evolem acquires RX Solutions Evolem acquires a majority stake in RX Solutions, a computer tomography (CT) manufacturer and service provider. RX Solutions' CT systems, which in the past were sold to universities and research centres, are now increasingly being used in industries such as the automotive industry, the aerospace industry, medical technology,...
BallerTV buys FieldVision BallerTV, a provider of amateur live sports coverage, has acquired FieldVision, the developer of a compact, mobile and fully autonomous solution for live streaming sports. No financial terms were disclosed. FieldVision uses artificial intelligence and computer-aided vision to autonomously film any team sport.
SAIC Capital invests in CalmCar CalmCar, a Chinese provider of intelligent vehicle assistance systems, announced today that it has raised approximately US$14.1 million in an A2 Series financing round. The investors are SAIC Capital, an investment subsidiary of the Chinese automobile manufacturer SAIC Motor, and the Beijing Connected Vehicles Development...
New European Headquarter of OptoSigma OptoSigma Europe, Laser2000's long-term partner for optical components, moved into its new European headquarters near Paris at the beginning of September. With a total area of 1500m², enough space has been created for additional employees to work in the future development department. In addition, a showroom was set up...
Jencolor Spectronet Lectures online The nearly 50 videos with the presentations of the Jencolor Spectronet Collaboration Conference, which took place in Jena at the end of August, are now also available online.
The Zeiss scatterControl module improves the image quality of CT scans and reduces scattering artifacts to a minimum.
The combined 2D/3D surface inspection by IMS was installed for the first time in a pickling plant in November 2021 at Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein in Andernach, the world’s largest production site for packaging steel.
Specim and Konica Minolta Business Solutions introduce the automated surface quality and appearance inspection tool CoboSense which is equipped with Specim FX10 hyperspectral camera and SpecimCube data processing platform.
The biggest change in the new version of Creaform’s VXelements 11 concerns Vxinspect.
Hexagon’s Presto automated robotic inspection cell enables manufacturers to reduce quality control times.
CCS has developed the LDF-NB Series laser diode lights, which have a spectral width suitable for generating interference fringes for the inspection of coating processes performed on films, semiconductors, glass.
The PCHI series by Opto Engineering expands with the new PCHI3M models designed for sensors up to 1.1″ (17.5mm diagonal).
The line scan cameras by Hikrobot (Distributor Maxxvision) cover resolutions up to 16k, with line frequencies up to 150kHz.
At automatica BitFlow will demonstrate its CoaXPress over Fiber (CoF) interface technology between the new BitFlow Claxon Fiber frame grabber and CoF machine vision cameras by Optronis, IO Industries, and other manufacturers.
Haip Solutions is introducing two new hyperspectral cameras from the BlackIndustry series: the SWIR 1.7 and the SWIR 1.7 Max.
VisionTools offers systems for visual inspection, identification and robot control.
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