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Advantech and its ecosystem collaborate to


optimise customers’ machine vision journey VISION 2024: Advantech explains how machine vision is changing the world


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achine builders and system integrators attending VISION this month will be looking for the latest


technological advances in machine vision, especially for use in such applications as industrial equipment, transportation and the development of smart cities. Appealing directly to this audience, Advantech and its partners – to be found in Hall 8 booth 8D12 – will be showcasing   cameras. Unlike many in this competitive sector, Advantech is a global industrial hardware manufacturer that has its own established worldwide ecosystem of expertise. Products and solutions are designed in Advantech’s own laboratories to provide end users with the most advanced systems on the market that can  At the Advantech booth, besides Advantech BitFlow solutions, visitors  key partners – Machine Vision Shop, VisionPlatformAI, ML6 and AIRob Vision Systems, who will also deliver six live solution demos powered by Advantech hardware. Advantech will also be present at the separate booths of Machine Vision Shop (Hall 10 booth 10B50) and AIRob Vision Systems (booth 10D10). Initially, visitors will be welcomed into the Advantech booth’s dedicated consultancy area where they will be invited to share their major pain points with specialists. Visitors will feel assured that Advantech and its partners are able to meet their requirements according to   visitors will be directed to the most relevant Advantech partner in the booth for further discussions, looking closely  partner and customer while being given the opportunity to watch one of the live demonstrations.


 help of Vision Consultancy/Machine Vision Shop, visitors will be introduced


10 September 2024 | Automation


Advantech and its ecosystem collaborate to optimise customers’ machine vision journey


 including lighting, lens, camera and cable solutions. At the next area, computing will be the focus of Advantech featuring BitFlow, solution software, vision  VisionPlatformAI, and integration services and logistics by ML6.


When visitors sign up to an agreement or arrange another appointment with Advantech and its partners they will qualify for the option to bang the gong that will be on the Advantech booth.


Machine Vision Shop   components. As a division of Vision Consultancy BV, with more than 25 years   Machine Vision Shop provides a wide range of cameras, lenses, lighting, software and Advantech AI edge systems designed to serve such industries as logistics, pharma, food processing and more. The company provides not only top products but also expert advice to ensure customers  With the promise to help “make the unseen visible”, Machine Vision Shop will enable visitors to the Advantech booth to discover how important it is to select the right components for their machine vision solution. A successful AI vision integration starts with selecting the most appropriate parts and Machine Vision Shop will


illustrate how reliability and performance improve when choosing the optimal components.


Advantech BitFlow


An innovator in frame grabber technology for the machine vision industry, Advantech BitFlow has been developing industrial frame grabbers and software since 1993. The company specialises in interfacing to cameras with very high data/frame rates, working in environments with complex triggering and I/O requirements, and running in applications where every CPU cycle is precious. Operating in Advantech IPCs, Advantech BitFlow’s frame grabber interfaces are Camera Link & CoaXPress and the software is some of the easiest to use while still being powerful and reliable. With thousands of its boards installed throughout the world into hundreds of imaging applications, Advantech BitFlow  particular imaging challenges.  show visitors at VISION the process of data acquisition using a Claxon CoF frame grabber in an Advantech Jetson Orin embedded PC. The NVIDIA AI code ‘Pose Estimation’ will demonstrate a 5MP image captured at 600fps, processed and displayed in under two milliseconds.


VisionPlatformAI VisionPlatformAI is the only European  the market. With a licence on its platform,


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