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VDMA MV Joint Booth at Vision China Shanghai The VDMA Shanghai Representative Office in cooperation with VDMA Machine Vision is offering a VDMA joint booth at the Vision China Shanghai 2020 show. The offer includes an all-inclusive package (stand space, stand construction in VDMA design, joint lounge, support from the VDMA team in Shanghai and additional...

North American MV Market Fell 4.6% through Q3 North American sales of machine vision systems and components contracted 4.6% comparing year to date numbers, to $2.07 billion through September, according to new statistics by the AIA. Machine vision systems (smart cameras and application specific MV systems) saw a decrease of 2% year over year, at $599.9...

Partnership Notavis and Solomon 3D Since autumn Notavis has become the exclusive European partner for Solomon 3D, i.e. supports the robotics and vision products of the Taiwanese manufacturer in the form of sales, application consulting, marketing and integration. Together with the Notavis partner IMV Solutions, turnkey solutions, including robotics,...

AI-Cooperation Adlink, Intel & AWS Adlink has joined forces with Intel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to simplify artificial intelligence at the edge for machine vision. The integrated solution offers an Amazon Sagemaker-built machine learning model optimized by and deployed with the Intel Distribution of OpenVino toolkit, the Adlink Edge software...

Call for Papers ISR 2020 From June 17 to 18, the 52nd International Robotics Conference ISR will take place during Automatica 2020 at the Munich Exhibition Centre. Interested speakers are invited to submit brief descriptions for presentations by January 13 at the latest. For further information follow the link.

Electrical automation reckons with light damper Automation technology is also not immune to the general economic slowdown. In the first nine months of the current year, incoming orders in electrical automation fell by 2% year-on-year. For 2019 as a whole, sales are expected to fall by 1%, and by 2020 by 4%.

Winner Edmund Optics Educational Awards Edmund Optics announces the winners of the Educational Award 2019 for student and graduate optics projects at universities and non-profit research institutions. In America, the University of Colorado Boulder receives the Gold Award. In Europe, the Institute of Applied Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University of...

Agricultural App Developer Raises €6.6m Plantix, the Berlin-based Startup that drives efficient agricultural production, announced a ?6.6m funding round. The fresh capital will be used to improve Plantix's AI-driven solution which provides a digital method for the automated detection of plant diseases. One million farmers in India are already using...

Performance Overview of Public Vision Companies Vision Ventures monitors the performance of listed Vision companies. For example, Basler AG market cap increased over 23% on a 5.7% increase in revenue. This and other stock exchange data from December 12 are now available behind the link.

Antares Vision acquires FT System Antares Vision has taken a further step forward in its business diversification strategy by finalising an agreement to acquire 100% of FT System, an Italian company working in control and inspection. It operates prevalently in the beverage industry and covers all process stages, from container control to palletisation.

VDI/VDE/VDMA 2632 Series of Standards The VDI/VDE/VDMA 2632 guideline series creates a common basis and structures communication between providers and users. The guidelines help to avoid misunderstandings and to handle projects efficiently and successfully. Sheet 1 defines basic principles and terms, while Sheet 2 provides guidelines for the preparation of...

64,000 visitors at SPS exhibition Almost 64,000 trade visitors (previous year: 65,700) came to Nuremberg for the 30th edition of the SPS to find out about the latest products, solutions and trends in smart and digital automation from the 1,585 national and international exhibitors in the 17 exhibition halls. 2020, the trade fair for smart and digital...

New Wenzel Demo-Center in Shanghai Wenzel opens a new Demo-Center in Shanghai. On display are the XO- and LH-machines as well as the new WM MMA. Especially for blades the Core will be shown and soon the CT-U and a R-machine. Additionally, the new Demo Center has a stage for presentations.

VDI Status Report 'Machine Learning and AI' With the new status report 'Machine Learning - Artificial Intelligence with Neural Networks in Optical Measuring and Testing Systems', the VDI wants to introduce machine learning for optical measuring and testing systems and present the potentials of machine learning. The complete report is available free of...