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Point Grey added 15,000 square feet to its Canadian headquarters to increase manufacturing capacity and accommodate a warehousing facility.

Orders totaled $385.89 million, up 5.7% from January but down 10.6% when compared with the total of $431.63 million reported for February 2012.

Kyle Voosen of National Instruments is the AIA ambassador to Europe and Steve Mott of Components Express is the AIA ambassador to South America.

January U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $370.62 million, down 26.5% from December and down 12.2% reported in January 2012.

This standard is based on USB 3.0 consumer hardware. Vision component manufacturers have embraced the standard and are expected to widely adopt it; many components are already selling today.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) provided a review of industry growth and hosted the IFR CEO Round Table discussion at AUTOMATE in Chicago. The bottom line is...robots create jobs by enabling manufacturers to be globally competitive and grow more quickly.

A3 is the umbrella trade association for the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging, and the Motion Control Association (MCA).

ABB Robotics is bringing SVIA's PickVision Smart Camera vision system to the industrial robotics market in North America.

Sadoulet will assume responsibility for the company's corporate technology, global engineering, and manufacturing operations.

Taipei Metro installed a video surveillance system for the Nangang-Banqiao-Tucheng Line, using IP video technology from Moxa.

Despite the overall decline, certain machine vision components have enjoyed positive year-over-year growth through the first nine months of 2012.

The USB3 Vision standard supports easy camera connectivity to newer off-the-shelf computer products with built-in USB 3.0 ports.

White paper provides a detailed comparison between RFID and vision identification technologies to assist manufacturers in selecting the ideal track and trace technology to meet their application demands.

IMS Research projects that machine vision growth will be strongest in China, South Korea and Taiwan reflecting the general economic growth forecast in these countries.

Automation.com, October 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor It is hard to find another platform with the computing power and rapid prototyping capabilities of LabVIEW coupled with NI hardware. Because it comes at a price, their products are used in demanding industrial automation applications out of the reach of typical industrial controllers.

Forbes will address the impact of the President and his administration on the future of the U.S. economy and business growth during a keynote presentation at Automation 2013 in Chicago on January 22.

Total machine vision sales in North America rose three percent compared to the second quarter of 2011, according to AIA, the industry’s trade group.

BMW's factory in Landshut, Germany, uses digital cameras from Allied Vision Technologies to test instrument panel carrier frames for the MINI Countryman.

Automation.com, August 2012 By Lantech In the case of industrial networks, managing the multicast video by IGMP snooping is a consensus for MIS. However, could IGMP snooping really satisfy for its video stream management in transportation surveillance project?

The image sensors for the Curiosity's Navcams and Hazcams were built in Teledyne DALSA's Bromont, Quebec, semiconductor foundry.