
Double-digit growth in the 2022 financial year
The Festo Group achieved double-digit growth for another year in a row: its turnover rose by 13.4% to EUR 3.81 billion in 2022 (previous year: EUR 3.36 billion).
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The Festo Group achieved double-digit growth for another year in a row: its turnover rose by 13.4% to EUR 3.81 billion in 2022 (previous year: EUR 3.36 billion).

Despite global crises, the ifm Group's business is on a successful growth path. Record turnover and employment levels were achieved in the past financial year.
The journey to climate-neutral private transportation takes place in the electric car. At its heart is the lithium-ion battery, whose fully automated manufacturing process, which should be as error-free as possible, requires high-quality sensors at key points.
The more consistently all components involved in the production process communicate with each other, the more autonomous the process can be. Machine vision is a key technology for a production process in which production lines, robots and machines are networked.
We present: The winners of the "Products of the Year 2023" readers' poll! Which products and solutions impressed our readers! All categories, products and the people behind them at a glance.
They capture the "gold" of our time, data, and thus enable data-based functionalities such as predictive maintenance, process optimization and condition monitoring: sensors. Here are the winners in the 'Sensors' category.

Xavier Hamers will join the Leuze Management Board as the new CEO and Chairman of the Management Board on April 1, 2023.
At the Würth Sales Center VZ West, 60 hands sort around 3,000 boxes of screws, nuts and other fasteners every day. A collaborative robot provides support. It has learned to see, grasp and sort.

TI offers a family of vision processors based on Arm Cortex consisting of six modules. These make it possible to equip applications such as machine vision applications and autonomous mobile robots with extensive image and AI processing functions.

Vision Components presents the 'VC Power SoM', an FPGA-based hardware accelerator that performs complex image pre-processing.