New CEO at Schneider Optics Inc. Effective December 16, 2019, Stuart Singer started as Chief Executive Officer of Schneider Optics Inc., the US subsidiary of Schneider-Kreuznach. Singer is responsible for the sustainable growth of Schneider Optics by reinforcing business and partnerships with current customers, developing new business and new opportunities...
New Product Manager at Isra Vision As of January 2020, Dana Diezemann is the new strategic senior product manager at Isra Vision. With her many years of experience in the camera sector, she will be responsible for expanding the product portfolio of the recently acquired Photonfocus AG and Isra Sensor Systeme. The goal is to expand Isra Vision's sensor...
Sick Opens Production Site in China Sick is expanding its local production capacities in China. In the future, the German sensor manufacturer will also produce in Changzhou in eastern China, where it will focus on localized product manufacturing and customized system construction. The location was inaugurated on December 12 in the presence of 80 guests....
Change in EMVA Presidency The EMVA announced that Dr. Chris Yates (l.) will adopt the role of President of the EMVA effective from the 1st January 2020. Chris will succeed Jochem Herrmann (r.), the current President of the EMVA, who has held the role since 2015 and now decided to step down to be able to spend more time with his family. According to the...
Embedded Vision Arena at the Embedded World The 'Embedded Vision Arena' with ten exhibitors (including Allied Vision, Basler, Framos, NET, The Imaging Source) will be held for the first time at Embedded World (25 to 27 February 2020, Nürnberg). In addition, there will be two Embedded Vision Sessions, each with five lectures (including Allied Vision, Intel,...
Vision 2020: Machine Vision is Changing From 10th to 12th November 2020 Vision will take place in Stuttgart for the 29th time. The world's leading trade fair for machine vision will then be characterised more than ever by the dynamic changes in the industry. For example, the TKH Group will present the combined potential of its brands Allied Vision,...
IniVation wins CES 2020 Award IniVation has won the 'Best of Innovation' Award from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020 in the category Embedded Vision. The company won the award for the DVXplorer. Using an all-new custom-designed sensor from Samsung, the product is the world's first neuromorphic camera employing technologies suitable for...
Hella and Oculii Start Radar Partnership Hella and Oculii, developers in the field of advanced software solutions for radar technology, have entered into a strategic partnership. The partnership will provide radar sensing and perception solutions for level 2/3 ADAS and automated driving (AD) based on Oculii's Virtual Aperture Imaging software technology.
Mobile CT Company plans Nasdaq IPO Israeli imaging company Nanox, which has developed a mobile CT device that is substantially smaller and cheaper than the existing devices, is supposedly planning on holding its IPO on Nasdaq in the first quarter of 2020. It is believed that the company intends to hold its offering at a company valuation of more than $500...
$20 Million for 3D Semantic Camera Outsight, the French startup that develops 3D monitoring systems and sensors, has raised $20 million of seed funding. With a team based in Paris, Helsinki, and San Francisco, the company has developed the first 3D Semantic Camera, a device that can both perceive and understand the environment, even identifying the...
Isra Vision grows by 1% Isra Vision AG has published its audited but not yet certified figures for the 2018/2019 fiscal year. Revenues for the past fiscal year grew in the low single-digit range (+1%) and amounted to ?153.9m (FY 17/18: ?152.5m). EBITDA increased by 6% to ?52.0m (FY 17/18: ?49.0m), with the EBITDA margin growing to 34% of revenues and 30%...
New Managing Director at Lakesight Chromasens has appointed Oliver Dittmar as Managing Director of Operations. He joined Lakesight in Business Development in April 2019. In his new role he will sustainably grow the Chromasens business in the division Operations and strengthen the industrial processes at at the company.
74th Heidelberg Image Processing Forum The 74th Heidelberg Image Processing Forum will take place at Dentsply Sirona in Bensheim on March 3, 2020. The focus will be on 'Machine Learning for 3D Imaging and Modeling'. While 3D imaging is already established in medical applications, it is only now beginning to really develop in industrial applications....
Successful Werth Technology Day 2019 At this year's Werth Technology Day in Giessen, Germany, Werth Messtechnik presented its new products to an audience of experts from all over Germany. The events take place every year at selected locations in German-speaking countries in cooperation with universities, institutes and cooperation partners from industry....
Hyperspectral Imaging Conference Chii 2020 From 27 to 28 May 2020 the Chii 2020 (Conference on Hyperspectral Imaging in Industry) will take place in Graz (Austria). Perception Park, together with Spectronet, the Steirische Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft as well as the Enterprise Europe Network will organize the technology conference for the fourth time....
Declining Production in German Mechanical Engineering In the first ten months of the year, production in the German mechanical engineering sector fell by 1.8% in real terms compared to the year before, while order intake fell by 9% in the same period. For the coming year, the VDMA continues to expect a further decline in production of 2% in real terms. The...
Opto Engineering’s PCMP series of multi-image 3D objectives are for measuring test objects from 1 to 10mm.
Hamamatsu Photonics’ C15550-20UP is the first camera with a quantitative CMOS (qCMOS) image sensor that can resolve the number of photoelectrons.
The Zenith HZ-21000-G 100GigE camera series by Emergent Vision Technologies enables up to 542fps at 8bit and up to 400fps at 10bit, respectively, thanks to a QSFP28-100GigE interface with its 21MP Gsprint 4521 sensor.
Jetraw by Dotphoton compresses RAW image data without loss of information up to a factor of ten.
With the introduction of additional laser point sensors of the optoNCDT 1900 series from Micro-Epsilon, measuring ranges from 2 to 500mm are now covered.
Arrow Electronics has launched a line of plug&play camera modules based onsemi sensors.
The new RCX-2000-PEG AI computer system series from Vecow (Distributor D/A/CH Plug-In) has integrated 11th generation Intel Xeon/Core i7/i5 processors (Rocket Lake-S).
The VOS product family by Pepperl+Fuchs closes the gap between simple vision sensors and complex vision systems.
Pleora Technologies released a new software solution that converts embedded platforms, sensors, and cameras into GigE Vision devices.
Thanks to the integrated daylight filter, the Dualis O2D500 vision sensor by ifm is extremely resistant to ambient light.
Matrox Imaging released the version 2019 of its flowchart-based vision software Design Assistant X. It includes a range of 3D steps and functionality, supports the Iris GTX smart cameras, offers OPC UA communication, features a new step for enhancing image contrast and simplifies project troubleshooting and optimization.
The modular design of Vision & Control’s 27 new LED spot illuminators allows users to configure the ideal lighting fixture for their specific purposes.
