Uncertain times for machine vision
Based on the latest VDMA surveys, the European machine vision industry recorded a 7% decline in sales in 2023. The VDMA Machine Vision department expects a further decline in sales of 3% for the current year.
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Based on the latest VDMA surveys, the European machine vision industry recorded a 7% decline in sales in 2023. The VDMA Machine Vision department expects a further decline in sales of 3% for the current year.

Although the current economic development is casting its shadow, ifm was once again able to increase its turnover in the 2023 financial year. And the number of employees exceeded the 9,000 mark for the first time.
We put 96 products in twelve categories to your vote in December, and now the winners have been chosen! The trophies were presented at a 'Winner's Dinner' at the Seehaus in Munich. These are your "Products of the Year 2024"!
The winning products in the 'Image processing' category enable the monitoring of 3D zones and logistics processes and allow mobile robots to navigate freely in production.
The company Aconity3D has set itself the goal of optimizing the stability of the powder bed-based laser melting production method. By using high-speed industrial cameras from SVS-Vistek, the company has come one step closer to achieving this goal.

The 'Vision Cam XM2' from Imago Technologies is a compact smart camera based on the Nvidia Jetson Orin module. The embedded vision system is suitable for edge AI applications and other tasks that require multi-core ARM and GPU computing power.

Vision Components at the Logimat 2024
Vision Components is launching what it claims is the world's first industrial-grade MIPI camera module with the 'IMX900' image sensor from Sony.
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'.

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.