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engineer to deal with the vision component of their system. Tis isn’t always a good fit as the engineer may be a good programmer, but not so solid in other aspects, or vice versa. Te result can be a negative one for the company, the engineer and the machine vision companies they are working with.’ He said that the AIA course on certifying
engineers in machine vision is a good first step, but industry awareness and education must be an ongoing process to ensure that companies are able to hire engineers who are as passionate about machine vision, as the ones already working in the industry. Mark Williamson, managing director of
Stemmer Imaging UK, said the company looks for staff graduating from university, as the pool of talented people specifically with machine vision experience is small. He added, however, that even when recruiting directly from university, there is still a lack of people wanting to embark on careers in engineering. ‘Te real needle in a haystack is engineers with good interpersonal and commercial awareness,’ he remarked. ‘Tere is a strong culture here of hiring from
university and growing the skills internally,’ Williamson said. In Germany, Stemmer Imaging tends to manage the recruitment process internally, as the number of vacancies justifies the resources needed. In the local offices, however, the firm uses agencies and head hunters, as well as the internet resources. Stemmer Imaging UK runs a STEM
– science, technology, engineering and mathematics – day each year at a local school
in conjunction with PPMA Best, a UK charity promoting engineering (Danny Reed from PPMA Best writes about the charity’s work on page 22). Stemmer Imaging staff run an engineering competition at the school, and the winner is invited to visit Stemmer Imaging’s offices and try out working with vision systems. ‘We all need to be engaging and promoting
STEM in schools to inspire young people to follow a career in our industry,’ Williamson said. In Germany, the company has a similar
concept to the Stemmer Foundation, which was started and is now run by Wilheim Stemmer, founder of the company, again to promote careers in engineering in local schools. ‘I have direct evidence that it
the University of Sheffield and Newcastle University, with Siemens paying selected students £3,000 a year from the second year of university, and giving them the chance to join Siemens’ graduate scheme aſter their degree programme. Te sponsorship programme offers undergraduates a practical, collaborative space to explore Industry 4.0 technologies and put what they learn at university into real- world use. Robot vision and 3D imaging firm
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works,’ Williamson said. ‘One Stemmer member of staff saw a foundation day at their child’s local school and thought “that is a great company to work for, giving so much back to the local community”, and actively approached Stemmer for work. Tese events really do help to get good staff.’ University courses on computer vision and
saw a foundation day at their child’s school and thought ‘that is a great company to work for’, and actively approached us
Photoneo, based in Bratislava, Slovakia, looks for job candidates at universities, among other sources. Ivette Lesundakova, Photoneo’s director of HR, feels that the number of graduates in fields relevant to Photoneo is increasing. She said, however, that ‘our segment is rather unique and consequently it is not an easy task to find relevant candidates’. Photoneo prizes
roboticists and experts in C++, Python,
machine learning and machine vision when recruiting. ‘Nowadays, young people are hungry for
image processing are out there, as are those on optical and electrical engineering. Siemens UK launched an undergraduate sponsorship programme in the summer of 2019 to nurture the next generation of engineers. Te programme is a partnership between Siemens,
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interesting opportunities which support not only their personal and professional development, but where they can also see that their work brings results and has a real impact on the company’s success,’ Lesundakova said. Tapio Kallonen, CEO of spectral imaging
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