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Teledyne DALSA to highlight industrial vision solutions at Rockwell Automation Fair
Teledyne DALSA will exhibit its industrial vision solutions in Booth 1562 at the Rockwell Automation Fair taking place November 9-10 at Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA -
Microscan to demonstrate MicroHAWK machine vision solution at The Assembly Show
Microscan, in collaboration with its distribution partner Axis New England, will demonstrate vision-guided robotics using the Universal Robots collaborative UR3 robotic arm and Microscan’s MicroHAWK imaging platform, an Ethernet smart camera, released this summer 2016. -
FLIR announces acquisition of Point Grey for $253 million
The addition of the Point Grey business will augment FLIR’s existing OEM cores and components business by adding a broad range of visible spectrum machine vision cameras and solutions. -
Cognex Corporation names Integro Technologies first certified Platinum partner system integrator
The new Certified Platinum status acknowledges System Integration companies that have experienced engineers on staff and have been trained on the latest technology available from Cognex. -
Teledyne DALSA delivers image detectors to Univ. of Arizona asteroid mission
Designed, constructed and tested over the last four years, the image sensors aboard OCAMS will behave in a manner similar to human eyes, from spotting the target asteroid from more than a million miles away to monitoring the sampling process just 10 feet from the surface of the asteroid. -
Lighting Controllers – The Hidden Power Behind Automating Machine Vision
By Peter Bhagat, Gardasoft Vision The ability of industrial vision systems to monitor, regulate, check, analyze, sort and classify with high precision, repeatability and safety makes vision an essential enabling technology in a host of automated manufacturing processes. -
VDMA: Germany sees record machine vision sales in 2015
In 2015, the German machine vision industry achieved record sales of 2 billion euros – a rise of 9 percent compared to the previous year. Sales in the industry have more than doubled in ten years. -
Cognex and Carter Controls provide automatic ID readers for vitamin retailer warehouse
The challenge for the integrator that designed and installed the automation system was to find an ID reader that could deliver near 100% read rates, handle line speeds of 30 packages per minute. They chose the Cognex DataMan 300 image-based ID reader -
Bitflow sponsors Purdue engineering team in SpaceX Hyperloop competition
The primary goal of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition is to produce a fail-safe, passenger-friendly, scalable prototype that successfully levitates throughout the length of the track. -
Microscan to host 3-day machine vision training course
The course will be held at the Microscan headquarters in Renton, Washington, U.S.A., September 20-22, 2016 at 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM daily. Attendance is free and online registration is available; the course is recommended for users with intermediate to advanced experience in machine vision or programming. -
ams announces acquisition of MAZeT vision sensing company
The strategic acquisition extends ams’ market leadership in advanced optical sensors and strengthens ams’ position in emerging optical sensing applications. -
VDMA Machine Vision and OPC Foundation to prepare OPC UA Machine Vision Specification
VDMA Machine Vision and the OPC Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the preparation of an OPC UA Machine Vision Companion Specification. The group will create a companion specification which will enable camera vision systems to be securely connected to controllers -
Hexapod & Drone: Industrial & research applications for motion simulation
Available in a variety of sizes with bases ranging from 100mm to 1m, different stiffness configurations, and supportive of loads from 2 kg to 1,000+ kg, PI hexapods have successfully tested a drone-mounted camera on PI’s H-840 hexapod -
Fluke Connect Assets and the Fluke TiX560 Infrared Camera are honored in 2016 EC&M Awards
Fluke Connect Assets is a cloud-based wireless system of software and test tools that gives maintenance managers a comprehensive view of all critical equipment. The TiX560 Infrared Camera, which is part of the Fluke Connect system, features a rotating 240-degree lens and a 5.7 inch touchscreen. -
Gardasoft Vision announces acquisition by OPTEX
Being part of OPTEX will allow Gardasoft Vision Ltd to extend the applications of its Triniti Technology. Both companies are looking to work together to exploit wider product and market synergies. -
Fiber Optic Center releases industry glossary
The FOC Glossary includes Acronyms and Military Specifications for Connectors in addition to the General Terms and Definition section. The goal is to make it easier to both reference and understand common industry terms and definitions. -
AAEON’s UP part of Intel RealSense Robotic Development Kit
The UP board was selected to be a part of the development kit because of a wide range of operating systems support, such as Linux (Ubilinux, Ubuntu, Yocto), Android and Microsoft Windows. -
CoaXPress Aims to Become New Standard in Machine Vision Interfaces
Due to the use of standard coaxial cable and its bandwidth, CoaXPress has found itself not only suited for machine vision applications but also for applications in the medical and defense markets where use of coaxial cable is prevalent. -
Vision system checks parts in 360 degrees
At Meccancotecnica Umbra in Italy, a Cognex vision system takes 24 snapshots of a rotating part in two seconds to verify the external profile in a complete 360° inspection. -
Cognex vision software inspects sealing rings
Hänggi inspects sealing rings for automotive injection pumps with VisionPro at two parts per second.