News North American vision sales grow 19 per cent in Q1 2018


North American sales of machine vision components and systems have reached $709 million in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 19 per cent year-on-year. Te record quarter is a


continuation of the strong growth the machine vision sector experienced in 2017 in Europe – Germany in particular – and in North America, according to statistics issued by AIA, the industry’s trade group. Te machine vision components


category grew 28 per cent, to $107 million, during the first quarter of 2018. Te growth in components was primarily driven by camera sales, which increased 44 per cent, to $65 million. Optics (up 16 per cent, to $12 million) and soſtware (up 9 per cent, to $5 million) markets also experienced growth. Te machine vision systems


category increased 17 per cent, to $597 million in the first quarter of 2018. Within the systems category, sales of smart cameras climbed 26 per cent, to $109 million, while application-specific machine vision (ASMV) systems grew 16 per cent, to $488 million. ‘Our most recent poll of


industry experts revealed that 45 per cent of respondents expect the market to increase over the next two quarters, 42 per cent predict stagnation, and 13 per cent are bracing for a decline,’ said Alex


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Mariann Király joins Vision Components as director of business development for North and South America.


MVTec Software is to run two all-day workshops on deep learning in Munich on 9 October and 17 October. The company will also hold a short two-hour seminar at Vision in Stuttgart. Additional training sessions are planned for February 2019.


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Shikany, vice president at AIA. ‘We continue to see demand for vision systems that are smaller, intuitive, cost effective and complementary to a more connected automation system. It’s an exciting time to be in this field with the innovation


we’re seeing at every turn.’ ‘Vision technology is being


integrated in a growing number of automation applications today because the technology is enabling new ways to solve complex challenges,’ said AIA


president Jeff Burnstein. ‘Growing global trends such as autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, and unmanned aerial vehicles rely heavily on vision and imaging, which bodes well for the future of this industry.’


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