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Contents VISION yearbook 2015/2016
Contents Smart factories
Greg Blackman speaks to Professor Detlef Zühlke at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence on what the factories of the future will look like
Emerging markets 8
Most of the growth for European machine vision suppliers has come from Asia. Anne Wendel, director of the VDMA Machine Vision Group, investigates the opportunities and threats the continent presents for European vision providers
Viewpoints 12
Five industry experts give their opinion on embedded processing, 3D imaging, automotive production, traffic monitoring, and robot vision
Image sensors 22
Earlier in 2015, Sony announced it was discontinuing CCD production. Jessica Rowbury looks at the implications for the machine vision industry
Standards 26
Updates to GenICam to better serve 3D imaging and embedded vision, as well as a new lighting standard for machine vision, are both discussed
Roadmap 30
Machine vision companies detail the products due for release, as well as the trends happening in the industry, moving into 2016
Suppliers’ directory
Find the suppliers you need with this vision- related products and services listing
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8 4 4 Leader Greg Blackman
Fourth industrial revolution
T
he factories of the future are set to be much more interconnected. Te vision of Industry 4.0, a German concept referring to the fourth industrial revolution,
is of automated equipment supplying data to the rest of the factory about the status of the production process. Siemens has developed an electronics production facility in Amberg, Germany that’s an early precursor of Industry 4.0. Machine vision data will feed into these smart factories,
for product inspection among other functions. Te article on page 4 discusses developments taking place in the field of Industry 4.0 and how machine vision will be used. One significant piece of news for the machine vision
world in 2015 – and one which could have repercussions for camera makers in the future – is Sony’s announcement that it will cease production of CCDs. CMOS image sensors have already gained ground over their CCD counterparts, but with the main supplier of CCDs to the vision industry stopping production, does this herald the demise of the CCD for all but the most specialised applications? Jessica Rowbury on page 22 looks at the image sensor market and what Sony’s news means for the machine vision industry. Tis issue of the Vision Yearbook also has viewpoints
from industry experts on page 12 covering topics as diverse as embedded vision, 3D imaging, automotive production, traffic monitoring, and robot vision. Tere are also articles on emerging geographical markets and vision standards. With Industry 4.0 accelerating, along with vision
suppliers finding ever more application areas for imaging, the machine vision industry remains in a strong position for the coming years.
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