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of guidelines, VDMA Machine Vision also supports the industry by providing a communication framework between vendors and users of machine vision systems, ensuring each project is well specified and delivered with a common understanding. Te group also continues to work toward


worldwide acceptance of machine vision standards through the international G3 framework.


Market intelligence Finally, VDMA Machine Vision will continue with its annual market survey. Sales by products, regions, and customer industries, as well as growth forecasts and trends are monitored. In addition, approximately 1,300 VDMA member companies participate in a monthly VDMA order intake and sales statistics for more than 40 VDMA groups – many of them customers of the machine vision sector. For machine vision, the data is separated into components and systems, and is ideal for benchmarking members’ own company data, monitoring regional developments, and observing the trends in customer industries. Together with the VDMA Robotics


and Automation association, studies on important trends, such as battery production and a China competitiveness report, are undertaken. Tanks to the


The board of VDMA Machine Vision; Mark Williamson third from left


VDMA’s good relationship with the China Machine Vision Union (CMVU), the VDMA Machine Vision membership receives an English translation of the Chinese machine vision market report. Te VDMA Machine Vision board’s


overarching goal in all that we do is to increase the competitiveness of the European machine vision sector, and ensure Europe maintains its technological lead.


Mark Williamson is managing director of Stemmer Imaging Ltd in the UK, and a member of Stemmer Imaging AG’s senior leadership team. He was elected chairman of the board of VDMA Machine Vision at the end of September. Alongside Williamson, the board consists of: Heiko Frohn, Vitronic; Martin Klenke, Teledyne Imaging; Hardy Mehl, Basler; Donato Montanari, Deevio; Olaf Munkel, MVTec Software; and Uwe Wiedermann, Isra Vision.


possible opportunity to help accommodate these delays. Another unwelcome


consequence of manufacturing and transportation challenges for vision components is increased costs throughout the supply chain, which inevitably leads to increased prices for the consumer. This is somewhat of an unwanted adjustment in an industry that for many years has seen technology developments and economies of scale in manufacturing help drive down costs. While such price increases cannot be avoided, for the UK vision


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industry the impact may be somewhat mitigated since a significant proportion of UK vision revenue comes from vision solutions and integration projects. Here, the vision components can be a comparatively small proportion of the total project cost, and so increases in component prices will have less impact. Suppliers providing added value to the vision components, right up to full integrators, have much greater control of their own pricing structures, subject of course to any other inflationary pressures.


While the supply chain issues are slowing down the current roll-out of vision projects, the vision industry doesn’t stand still. Even through the height of the pandemic new products continued to be brought to market, which was amply illustrated at Vision in Stuttgart. New image sensors with exciting capabilities have been developed; new illumination sources have emerged, AI capabilities have improved, image processing toolkits have been enhanced – the list goes on and on. UKIVA continues to be fully


committed to informing and educating the UK industry as a whole as to the many benefits that machine vision can bring in order to facilitate even greater growth as supply chain bottlenecks diminish. The Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition, to be held at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes on 28 April 2022 (www. machinevisionconference. co.uk), will act as a focal point for the latest vision trends and technologies and their uses in real-life applications, as well as offering the opportunity to see a wide range of the latest vision products.


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