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Machine Vision By Anne Wendel, director
At the VDMA Machine Vision sector group meeting at the end of September, the VDMA Machine Vision board presented its view on the current challenges for the European machine vision industry. The common feeling of the board is that the European machine vision industry is in a consolidation phase facing many changes, with more yet to come. The goal of the discussion was to create awareness of the challenges and opportunities ahead, to provide a platform, and to give support to address and tackle them. Four topics were discussed, with the outcome helping the newly elected VDMA MV board to prepare key activities for the 2018 to 2021 period. Firstly, consolidation of the industry: the machine vision industry in Germany and Europe has been recording high growth rates for years, but will this continue, or are we at the beginning of a consolidation with lower growth rates? Machine vision is also being used in more applications, in and outside the factory. Who will benefit from the increasing demand? What will the machine vision community look like in 10 years? It was suggested the VDMA should try to
understand how other industries have mastered these transitions. In addition, the machine vision community and VDMA Machine Vision must open up for new players. Secondly, many companies are approaching a generation change at management level. At the same time, machine vision companies compete with large and supposedly more attractive companies in recruiting skilled workers, graduates and young talent. The requests to the VDMA are: active support in recruiting young people; getting young people interested in mathematics, computer science, natural science and technology at school; and creating more visibility for machine vision as an exciting technology.
The VDMA multi-media-reportage ‘Seeing
Machines’, or the VDMA portal for pupils and students called ‘
Talentmaschine.de’ are good tools that member companies can use when promoting jobs in the machinery and vision industries. The educational policy activities of the VDMA Department for Education are good examples of how the VDMA Machine Vision sector group can build their own initiatives. Artificial intelligence was also discussed. Since
May 2017, the VDMA Software and Digitisation association has been running a machine learning working group, in which a number of VDMA Machine Vision members are involved. The task now is to strengthen the cooperation of the two VDMA groups. Finally, China has replaced North America as the most important export market for the German machine vision industry. By 2020, China wants to be among the top 10 most automated nations in the world. At the same time, competition from China, which has so far concentrated primarily on the Chinese market, is steadily increasing.
The VDMA will give advice, training and practical tips in everyday business in China through the VDMA departments for foreign trade, legal advice, technical regulations and offices in China. Furthermore, the VDMA will work for its members towards fair competition, protection of property rights, but also practical legislation and framework conditions conducive to entrepreneurship.
lThe VDMA Machine Vision group has elected Klaus-Henning Noffz, CEO of Silicon Software, as chairman of its board until 2021. Members of the board for the next three years are: Heiko Frohn, Vitronic; Horst Heinol-Heikkinen, Asentics; Donato Montanari, Deevio/Viessmann Sechs; Olaf Munkelt, MVTec Software; and Christian Ripperda, Isra Vision. Mark Williamson, of Stemmer Imaging, will also act as an advisor to the board.
Israeli start-up Inspekto raises $10m for QA tech
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Israeli inspection equipment provider, Inspekto, has won $10 million of investment. The funding is for Inspekto’s Plug and Inspect technology implemented in its S70 system, which it plans to launch at the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart in November. The technology,
according to Inspekto, allows manufacturers to
set-up, install and detect defects in production in minutes, without the help of external experts or systems integrators. The company is targeting a broad range of vertical manufacturing sectors, including automotive and electronics.
The S70 system is a small,
smart, standalone visual QA product, which can be
installed up to 1,000 times faster than a traditional solution, and at a tenth of the cost, Inspekto stated. Inspekto’s investors include: Grazia Equity, ZFHN, Mahle, Planven, THI Investments and Steinbeis. The company’s valuation post investment is in the region of $60 million, according to Inspekto.
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