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Vision 2014 visitor numbers up 23 per cent, according to show report
Te number of visitors to Vision 2014 in Stuttgart grew by 23 per cent on the 2012 event, according to figures released as part of the official final report on the show. Exhibitor numbers were also up by 16 per cent. Last year’s Vision, which took place in
November, was the first show in the trade fair’s new biennial cycle, a change that some commentators regarded as an indicator of a maturing machine vision market with longer product development cycles. According to an exhibitor survey conducted
by Messe Stuttgart, organisers of the trade fair, 77 per cent of exhibitors rated the change to the two-year cycle as good to very good. In addition, more than half of the exhibitors judged their appearance at this year’s trade fair as more successful than at the previous events. ‘We are very satisfied with
the number and quality of professional visitors. We have received very positive feedback from all sectors of the industry. Tanks to the new two-year cycle, we are also now able to showcase ourselves better with our innovations. In addition, we
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77 per cent of
exhibitors rated the change as good to very good
are extremely satisfied with the high number of international exhibitors and visitors,’ Dr Olaf Munkelt, CEO of the VDMA Machine Vision Association in Frankfurt, and president of MVTec Soſtware, commented in a statement. Visitor numbers were
8,671 and 48 per cent of these travelled more than 300km to the event. In 2012, 36 per cent of the visitors to the trade fair travelled from abroad, now this
figure is at 39 per cent. Te visitors came from 58 countries (2012:
53), mainly from Italy, Switzerland, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, South Korea, Belgium, Spain and China.
Industrial camera speeds packaging surgical instruments
A software developer has designed a vision system for processing sterile surgical instruments in hospitals, simplifying the packaging process. The system uses an integrated XS mini USB camera from IDS to simplify the packing process for disinfected instruments. The software, EuroSDS from IBD Datentechnik (Information Technology), provides legally compliant documentation of all process steps in packaging sterile instruments. The XS camera is mounted at the packing station where the disinfected sterile goods are either repacked individually, or in sets.
Images of individual
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sterile goods, or entire sets, are captured and archived directly at the packing station. Integrated in the master data for the instruments, these images allow the operator to combine and pack the sets. Video sequences can be integrated in the packing list as a link. Before the IDS XS camera
was available, images were captured using a conventional digital camera and eventually read into a computer to be reviewed and edited as necessary, and then linked manually to the respective data records. This was a laborious and time-consuming process that was prone to user error. Now, image acquisition and
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camera control functions are fully integrated into the quality management system. The XS camera’s high resolution and auto focus deliver sharp images from distances down to 10cm, which was particularly important for this application. Unlike many industrial
environments, the conditions for capturing images at the packing station are usually not ideal. Parameters such as exposure time, white balance, and gain are automatically adjusted to adapt for varying lighting conditions. Using various default settings for lighting types and fields of view, these functions can be fine- tuned as necessary.
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