Vision market’s ups and downs
Ann R. Thryft, Contributing Technical Editor -- Test & Measurement World, 2/1/2009 2:00:00 AM
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As the world economy has gotten rockier, the effects are playing out in machine vision along with the rest of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing and test. Research presented at the Vision 2008 show in Stuttgart demonstrates a mixed bag: While revenue increased last year as expected, in 2009 growth will be flat ("
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But holding steady these days can be considered an achievement in almost any market. Automotive and electrical/electronics applications remain the largest manufacturing-related revenue generators for machine vision in Europe and Germany. And despite tough economic times, the Stuttgart show produced improvements, in terms of larger numbers of exhibitors and attendees compared to last year.
Meanwhile, the industry is expanding into areas where it hasn’t traditionally operated, such as security technology and recycling. Addressing cost-sensitive, mid-volume segments that need to automate identification tasks, the winner of the 2008 Vision Award was an open-source smart camera system that promises to drastically cut the costs of building cameras and vision systems ("Smart cameras gain open-source platform"). At the same time, the strict traceability requirements of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing and assembly processes are increasing the use of vision and imaging technologies in fields such as data acquisition and automatic identification ("Machine vision, data acquisition converge").
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