Us vision sales up for sixth successive quarter
Machine vision sales grew 16 per cent in North America in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter a year earlier, according to the Quarterly Machine Vision Sales Tracking Report of the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). The AIA report recorded robust
sales across almost all major machine vision supplier markets, including cameras, lighting, optics, software, application- specifi c machine vision systems, and smart cameras. It also found that the machine vision industry continues to expect sales to stay at current levels or to increase in the next six months. Overall, only nine per cent of reporting companies expect sales to decrease.
‘It is encouraging that, for the sixth quarter in a row, the machine vision market in North America has recorded solid year-over-year growth,’ said Jeff Burnstein, president of AIA. Paul Kellett, AIA’s director of market analysis, added: ‘The double-digit growth of the market in 2Q 2011 is particularly impressive in view of the fact that it’s based on a comparison to 2Q 2010, when the MV recovery was already in full swing.’
Elsewhere, European vision company, Basler, has reported sales of €28.1m for the fi rst half of 2011, exceeding the previous year’s value of €22.6m by 24 per cent. The group’s incoming orders were €30.2m, while the earnings before taxes (EBT) totalled €3.3m (previous year: €2.2m, +50 per cent).
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machine vision UsB 3.0 standard under development news 5
A camera interface standard based on USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB) is being developed for the global machine vision market. Called USB3 Vision, this standard will take advantage of the USB 3.0 ports that will soon be standard on most PCs. Designed to give users plug-and- play capability using components
from different manufacturers, USB3 Vision offers bandwidth of 3.2Gb/s with both power and data over the same passive cable to fi ve metres length or over active cable to 10 metres or more.
Hosted by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the global trade association for the vision
and imaging industry, the standard is targeted for release in 2012. A meeting for the development of the USB3 Vision standard was held on 12 to 14 September in Ahrensburg, Germany. Industry- leading suppliers have joined the committee to create the standard specifi cation.
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