The year 2019 was marked by the continuing weak demand in the semiconductor market, which is important for Comet. At CHF371.6m, consolidated net sales were 14.8% below the previous year. Nevertheless, Comet achieved a consolidated profit at EBITDA level of CHF40m (previous year: CHF43m) and increased the EBITDA margin from 9.8% in the previous year to 10.8%.
In the combination of resolution and speed, the 3D sensors of the C6-3070 series by AT Automation Technology impress with the new WARP technology (Widely Advanced Rapid Profiling).
The 127.7MP HB-127-S camera is the latest addition to the Bolt 25GigE camera series of Emergent Vision.
The AI-controlled Leo 3D scanner is a wireless and fully self-contained device by Artec that integrates an Nvidia Jetson TX2 processor, a 5-inch HD display and a battery.
At Formnext, IBS Quality, together with Verisurf Software, Aesub and Eleven Dynamics, will present the complete 3D scanning process chain with the PAM system, a mobile scanning and inspection solution complemented by an intelligent software concept.
B&R is adding Deep Learning capabilities to its smart camera portfolio thanks to a collaboration with MVTec and AI processor specialist Hailo.
Anyline’s Tire Tread Scanner works by simply pointing the camera of a smartphone or any standard mobile device at the tire tread to be measured.
Matrix Vision’s BVS 3D-RV1 3D camera, with its 12MP sensors, achieves a level of capture accuracy that is especially necessary for handling small and complex parts in a wider field of view.
The C6040 ultra-compact IPC by Beckhoff has integrated 12th generation Intel Core processors with up to 16 cores.
Building on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs and Artix UltraScale+ FPGAs, AMD Xilinx adds two new devices to the UltraScale+ family.
Allied Vision integrates the Sony IMX global shutter sensors of the 1st Pregius generation into its Alvium cameras.
Ultron is a Nvidia Jetson-powered Sensor Fusion System of Smartcow that brings high computing power to the edge for applications.
Efinix released the TinyML platform for AI acceleration on its range of FPGAs.