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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 released by the AIA, the industry’s trade group and part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Machine vision systems saw a decrease of 2% year over year, at $599.9 million. This category includes smart cameras and application specific machine vision (ASMV) systems. The machine vision components market

In the electronics and semiconductor industry, the trend over many decades has been to miniaturize components to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for wearable and mobile devices that have far more processing power than many desktop computers. In the 21st century, miniaturization enables a myriad of tiny yet functionality-packed integrated circuits (ICs) to be inserted on to a single PCB. However, one of the issues of working in these minuscule sizes has been the difficulty of researc

It is often easy to ignore the fundamental role that technology plays in our everyday lives. Consider the ability to analyze changes to the Earth’s surface, daily. Consider the possibility of ubiquitous internet access even in remote parts of the world. Consider satellite navigation systems in almost every new road vehicle. All these and thousands of other activities that are driven by the need to monitor what is happening in the world every minute of every day are only possible becaus

As a part of Mapvision’s new growth plan, the company recently announced that it will invest more in local presence in its key markets and will have a new organisation structure for global sales and account management.  The new area organization will aim for growth and closer cooperation with Mapvision customers and partners .In the new organization, Mapvision will have new team leaders for area sales and the customer teams in the main markets. The global sales team will be led by Mr

For automotive manufacturers and suppliers, achieving a precise fit for body panels and their tools is often a time-intensive process involving plenty of trial and error. With the help of 3D measuring systems, automotive manufacturer Allgaier in Germany has managed to reduce measuring times in toolmaking, production, and assembly by up to 50 percent. Over the past few years, the cars rolling off today‘s production lines have become significantly heavier. Larger dimensions, stronger eng

In the palm of his hand, Thomas Brian Renegar held two small metal objects that had changed the course of history. Twisted pieces of copper and lead, they were fragments of the bullet that ended the life of US President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. A physical scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Renegar was not yet born when the nation was robbed of the young, charismatic leader who fought for civil rights and set America on a course for the Moon

At the 2020 CES exhibition in Las Vegas, ProovStation and BCA Group, Europe’s leading vehicle remarketing company, announced a commercial agreement to implement ProovStation inspection portals in BCA auctions and logistics compounds across Europe. The roll-out, which is planned to cover 13 countries, will commence in February. Thanks to industry-leading artificial intelligence, ProovStation portals will allow BCA to carry out a fully automated damage inspection, including underneath th

The most sensitive and high precision optical systems are made possible by the ability to produce optics with — in some instances — sub-angstrom surface roughness. The polishing processes that allow such smooth optics are enabling technologies that lead to the creation of cutting-edge and innovative end-use products. These optics are extremely demanding to fabricate, and also push metrology tools used to verify surface roughness to their limits. Many polishing techniques can be used to