December 2022

The EMVA very successfully could continue its growth path in 2022 by passing the bench mark of 150 associated members. Also the new member entities represent the diversity of EMVA membership – from start-ups to global playing brands, manufacturer or re-seller, from Europe or abroad – and by this they are further strengthening network and cooperation within the association.

With the EMVA Business Conference in Brussels and the European Machine Vision Forum in Cork the EMVA could provide excellent platforms for networking and exchange after the previous years under pandemic regime.

And last but not least the Vision show in Stuttgart brought the whole Vision Tech industry together. EMVA’s well attended International Vision Night, in good tradition taking place the evening before the fair opened its doors, served as starting point for all the Vision show events and meetings. The EMVA organised booth on international machine vision standards again demonstrated the importance of internationally harmonised standardisation work.

Despite of the various challenges ahead, our industry based on innovative technolgy has many good opportunities to keep growing as well in the future.

2023 the EMVA celebrates its 20th anniversary. We would be excited to meet you and your colleagues at our EMVA event highlights throughout the next year.

The EMVA Board of Directors and the whole EMVA team wishes you and your family peaceful holidays and a prosperous New Year.

The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award endowed with 1500 Euros to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing.

The winner of the award will be announced at the flagship 21. EMVA Business Conference 2023 taking place May 4th – 6th, 2023 in Seville, Spain, and will have the opportunity to present the awarded work to the machine vision industry leaders from Europe and abroad. Find all details via: Read more ›

Michael Schmidt takes over from long-term serving Dr. Fritz Dierks

During the last International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) in Tokyo/Japan the GenICam Working Group has elected Michael Schmidt as its new Chair.

Michael Schmidt leads a camera development team at Basler AG. He takes over the position from Dr. Fritz Dierks who has been leading the GenICam working group for almost 18 years and chose not to stand for another reelection to initiate the process of rejuvenating the board of the GenICam standard working group.

The membership of the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI) at Heidelberg University has been extended to the whole Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR). Its mission is to develop computational methods that enable trail-blazing applications. Our work transcends the boundaries of disciplines or faculties, and bridges scientific cultures from engineering to the humanities. The IWR is organizing the Heidelberg Image Processing Forum www.bv-forum.de since 1995, which became the leading continuous education event and contact forum between industry and research in Germany for machine vision. Read more ›

Cognex Corporation has acquired SAC Sirius Advanced Cybernetics GmbH, a German leader in lighting technology (“SAC”). The acquisition expands Cognex’s footprint across industries that manufacture at high speed with minimal tolerance for safety-critical failures, such as automotive and consumer electronics. Cognex plans to feature SAC’s Trevista products with its Vision Pro software offering.

Founded in 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany, SAC’s strong customer base includes leading European automotive suppliers and manufacturers.