December 2023

Getting close to the year’s end we look back to a very special year for the EMVA. Founded 2003 in Barcelona, for 20 years now our association serves its members and the machine vision industry in general.

With the EMVA Business Conference in Sevilla the vision community came back to Spain and besides celebrating EMVA’s anniversary, more than 110 attendees enjoyed highly informative presentations and excellent networking.
The spot couldn’t have been better – thanks to Sevilla!

But obviously the year 2023 is challenging our industry and predictions from vision company leaders indicate an ongoing difficult economic situation also in 2024.
EMVA’s quarterly survey on vision revenues in Europe for Q3-2023 shows a negative growth of 15% compared to the same quarter in 2022 and also compared to previous quarters in 2023 a negative trend has been established.

On the other hand our machine vision industry may count on a tremendous potential of innovation, just to name AI as one topic, vision players will react flexible on the challenges and the general pressure towards an increased level of automation in enduser industries promise a path for future growth.

The EMVA looks forward to several events in 2024, starting with the first ever joint member booth at the LogiMAT tradeshow, the annual highlight conference in Gdansk, Poland in June and the European Machine Vision Forum.
Last but not least we look forward to the VISION 2024 in Stuttgart, surely again the place to be for machine vision players from Europe and abroad. The EMVA will be present with a booth addressing international vision standards and in good tradition we will host the International Vision Night the eve before the show opens.

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

Become a conference sponsor now!
EMVA member entities are invited exclusively to become sponsor of a true highlight event in 2024.
The annual EMVA Business Conference will take place in Gdansk, Poland, and again it will generate wide content in the international relevant press and media channels.

Early Bird registration available!
Currently ticket prices for the EMVA conference are reduced for early registrations and up to now there are also still tickets available for the optional networking tours.
Don’t miss this chance and get your seat right now!

Our media partner, inspect – WORLD OF VISION, has published the current edition of the annual inspect Buyer’s Guide.
Based on a cooperation with the EMVA, the guide is a reference book containing suppliers of components, products, systems and services of machine vision and optical metrology from all over the world.
Highlights of this year’s edition include a technical article on a new standard initiative that complements the GenICam standard and aims to reduce the footprint of embedded devices.
Also worth reading is the machine vision trend report, which summarizes the year 2023 from an industry perspective and provides an outlook for 2024, broken down by world region. Read more ›

Founded in 1987, Intratel, a specialist in IT solutions, cloud infrastructure and data security, has developed
OneStepAI.com, a user-friendly, no-code platform using computer vision technology. This tool enables users to easily train custom models with a set of images and test them using different frameworks and hardware architectures. Its intuitive interface makes it accessible to a broad audience, making custom model creation a straightforward process.

Intratel works closely with its clients, employing OneStepAI.com to address their specific challenges.

The Sensor Group (TSG) designs and develops specialized imaging technology for OEM customers. TSG specializes in rugged marine LiDAR imaging systems for a variety of applications, including bathymetry and geodesy. Offerings include airborne LiDAR for underwater imaging, mobile land surveillance, longwave, midwave, and shortwave infrared, and cooled and uncooled sensors. The Sensor Group is also capable of designing and building custom camera sensor options for government contractors who desire advanced, precise, and confidential sensor technology. Read more ›

Since 1st November Jörg Bussmann serves as Deputy Marketing Director at Macnica ATD Europe, collaborating with Clémence Boudot in France to coordinate and expand the department. His mission is to leverage Macnica to the brand awareness in Europe that it already receives in its Asian home markets.
‘I am delighted to be back and excited about the upcoming challenges. Today’s marketing needs to constantly reinvent itself to meet current demands. This includes making the spirit and values of our parent company in Yokohama, Japan, visible in Europe,‘ explains Jörg. Read more ›

Udo Birk appointed as the new head of the Institute for Photonics and Robotics at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons.
According to a press release, he is taking over the position from Tobias Leutenegger, who wants to focus on his role as head of the Bachelor’s program in Photonics as well as on his teaching and research activities. The physicist Udo Birk received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 2004. Udo Birk has been a lecturer and head of advanced training at the Institute for Photonics and Robotics since 2017 and is considered a proven expert in image processing. Read more ›

The Hamburg Mint, one of the oldest mints in Germany, has been using machine vision since the early 2000s to automate various production steps, such as aligning of coins during packaging or various quality control tasks.
In the context of another project, we were confronted with the problem that the exact positioning of the coins during the printing process was very time-consuming. In close cooperation with the customer, a machine vision system has been developed over the last 10 months to automate this process and has been successfully proving itself in daily use since May. Read more ›

Teledyne DALSA announced the new Genie™ Nano-10GigE M8200 and C8200 cameras, based on Teledyne e2v’s 67M monochrome and color sensors, have now entered full production.
The new Genie Nano-10GigE 67M cameras are the smallest 10GigE Vision models in the industry achieving full resolution image transfer at up to 14 fps. Both offer wider operating temperature ranges, PTP synchronization, and commonality of sizes with other Genie Nano cameras, enabling ease of integration or upgrades across a wide variety of imaging applications. Coupling a compact 59 mm x 59 mm form factor, system designers can transition from 1, 2.5, 5GigE to 10GigE Vision without the need for software changes. Read more ›

The Blackfly® S leverages the industry’s most advanced sensors in an ice-cube form factor. It is packed with powerful features enabling you to easily produce the exact images you need and accelerate your application development. This includes both automatic and precise manual control over image capture and on-camera pre-processing. On-camera features including IEEE1588 clock synchronization and full compatibility with popular third-party software supporting GigE Vision, gives system designers the tools to quickly develop innovative solutions. Read more ›

LUCID Vision Labs announced the series production of its latest Triton2 – 2.5GigE camera featuring Gpixel’s GMAX4002 sensor with enhanced NIR sensitivity.

The Triton2 TRT024G camera leverages LUCID’s proven 2.5GigE industrial platform paired with Gpixel’s GMAX4002 NIR-enhanced global shutter CMOS image sensor. This new 2.4 MP sensor, designed around a 4 µm charge domain global shutter pixel, offers a 2048(H) x 1200(V) resolution within a 1/1.7” optical format. Each 4 µm pixel achieves a full well capacity of 12k e-, read noise less than 3 e-, and a maximum dynamic range of 68.5 dB in 12-bit mode.