
Partnership with Koenig & Bauer
Mitsubishi Electric and Koenig & Bauer have signed a letter of intent for future cooperation. The aim of the partnership is to develop quality control systems for electrode foils in battery cell production.

Mitsubishi Electric and Koenig & Bauer have signed a letter of intent for future cooperation. The aim of the partnership is to develop quality control systems for electrode foils in battery cell production.
Electric vehicles require special quality inspection processes, especially for the production of their batteries. This is where image processing systems based on artificial intelligence do their work.

The latest edition of Teledyne Dalsa's image processing software 'Sapera' includes improved versions of the graphical AI training tool 'Astrocyte 1.50' and the image processing and AI libraries 'Sapera Processing 9.50'.

ITIS Holding, a PPF Group company, intends to take over the Vitronic Group. The aim is to create a globally active company for intelligent transportation, infrastructure and automation solutions.
AI-based systems for automated quality control cannot avoid the time-consuming collection of image data. At BMW in Dingolfing, an inspection cell has been in operation since July 2023, which starts camera-based visual inspection from the very first car body.

SVS-Vistek founder and CEO Walter Denk has retired from operational business at the end of 2023. Robert Franz took over as CEO on January 1.

IDS Imaging Development Systems
With the departure of company founder and owner Jürgen Hartmann, industrial camera manufacturer IDS Imaging Development Systems is reorganizing its management.
When it comes to optimizing automation processes, the main focus is on increasing efficiency and accuracy. 10GigE cameras, such as the uEye Warp10 camera family from IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH, set standards here.

43% of managers from the automotive industry surveyed in Germany use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) in machine vision. This is one of the findings of the 'AI Machine Vision in the Automotive Industry Benchmark Report'.

Basler and MVTec are cooperating independently with Siemens. The new partnerships will enable customers to integrate machine vision applications directly into their existing automation technology.
The edge AI system 'Vision Box AI' from Imago Technologies is based on Nvidia's 'Jetson AGX Orin' computer module. It is designed for vision applications and inference programs.

Imago Technologies at the SPS 2023
Imago launches the all-in-one panel PC 'Vision Box Touch' on the market.

MVTec Software has launched a new version of its image processing software 'Merlic'. In version 5.4, the focus has been placed on easier process integration.

3D cameras in autonomous vehicles and robots must always have a very precise view of their surroundings and be able to reliably recognize objects in their environment. ifm is working together with Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (RWU) on the '3DRobust' research project.

ipf electronic at the SPS 2023
ipf electronic is expanding its range of additional camera lights with solutions featuring high-power LEDs: ER1Dxxx ring lights, ES46xxx spotlights and ES16xxx spotlights.

Acceed has announced a series of compact industrial AI platforms called 'NRU-51V+'.

Basler equips almost all cameras with Basler's own 'SLP feature' for lighting control.

Imago Technologies is launching a new condition monitoring camera on the market: the 'Industrial DashCam 1 000'.

Zebra Technologies offers manufacturers the ability to utilize optical character recognition (OCR) with new deep learning OCR software.
The technical basis of modern real-time image analysis is the combination of video cameras and edge servers. In automated quality control, this technology finds production errors - not least thanks to artificial intelligence.