News from Vision 2014 VDMA joins G3 standards initiative
Te machine vision group of the VDMA has joined the G3 initiative – the North American AIA, the Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA) and the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) – on standardisation, it was announced at Vision 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany. Te VDMA will join with the other three members of G3 to promote machine vision standards. Klaus-Henning
It is hoped... it will facilitate the wider use of machine vision
Noffz, a member of the board of VDMA Machine Vision, commented: ‘VDMA Machine Vision with its expertise and membership strength in system integration is looking forward to share this knowledge within the G3 initiative and to support the further development and promotion of international standards.’ Te agreement reunites the European
Machine Vision Association with the VDMA in the area of standardisation aſter the EMVA split from the German engineering federation two years ago in April 2012. Jochem Hermann, EMVA board member,
Representatives from AIA, EMVA, JIIA and VDMA sign cooperation on standardisation
said on behalf of the three founding associations: ‘Tis is a positive step in a sense that more associations join the idea of commonly promoting standards which is beneficial for the development of the whole industry.’ Te agreement was signed exactly five
years to the day aſter the founding signature of G3. It is hoped that the increased effort in standardisation will facilitate the wider use of machine vision, as standards cut down development time and investment costs and also accelerate time-to-market for new products.
German and US vision markets up 10 per cent in 2014 Alex Shikany, AIA’s director of
Both the German and North American machine vision markets are predicted to grow around 10 per cent in 2014, according to the latest figures from the VDMA Machine Vision group and the AIA. The data from both industry groups was presented during the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany, which took place from 4 to 6 November. Turnover of cameras is expected to grow 8.2 per cent this year in North America to $2.135 billion, according to the AIA figures. The total German industry turnover is predicted to exceed €1.8 billion by the end of 2014. Dr Olaf Munkelt, chairman of the VDMA Machine Vision group, commented that further growth is expected in the German market in 2015. He pointed to the continuing
growth in exports to non-European regions, particularly China and North America, and how alternative markets to manufacturing are contributing to the machine vision sector’s success. Munkelt identified the distribution of robots to areas such as China, Japan, and the United States as a key driver for the German machine vision industry. He said that, in the past four years, the annual supply of industrial robots to China has more than doubled.
According to the International
Federation of Robotics (IFR), sales of industrial robots in China are expected to increase at least 25 per cent per year from 2015 to 2017. Munkelt predicted that many of these robots will be equipped with robot vision from Europe.
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market analysis, commented when presenting the North American data that a 25 to 35 per cent growth in robotics was expected in North America this year, largely tied to automotive production. China has been, according
to Munkelt, the most dynamic market for German machine vision suppliers. ‘Except for the 2009 crisis year, exports to China have risen significantly above average. Since 2008, turnover has more than quadrupled; in 2013, turnover rose by 23 per cent compared to 2012.’ He added that, with a share of 10 per cent, China ranks second after North America in total turnover of the German machine vision exports. Although world-wide sales to non- automotive manufacturing sectors
dropped by three per cent in 2013, revenue from the automotive share increased by 15 per cent. Increasingly though, non- manufacturing markets are important to the industry and now make up almost 29 per cent of turnover, having increased by 25 per cent in 2013. Munkelt stated that intelligent traffic systems accounted for the highest share in the total turnover of non-industrial applications, followed by medical technologies, logistics, postal sorting, and safety and surveillance. He explained: ‘Increasing standardisation, simplification, and intuitive interfaces, greater efficiency, improved computer performance, and miniaturisation remain real growth drivers.’
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