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Neil Sandhu and Allan Anderson from UKIVA on why the UK needs to adopt machine vision to increase productivity
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Rebecca Pool reports on imaging techniques used in the lab, from speeding up pathology scanning to event-based sensing
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Colin Burnham of Deep Detection on X-ray technology for industrial inspection
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Isak du Preez’s approach to 3D deflectometry, which is attracting interest from BMW
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As Matrox turns 45, Greg Blackman asks co-founder Lorne Trottier about building imaging products in the 1970s
12 Hyperspectral imaging Association news
VDMA Machine Vision’s new chairman, Mark Williamson, sets out priorities for the group, plus news from EMVA and UKIVA
Tech focus: Optics Products
The latest vision equipment Suppliers’ directory
Find the suppliers you need 25
A look at the market for lens technology and some of the more recent releases
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Dr Michelle Hamilton from STFC RAL Space on work to map trees with spectral imaging
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n many ways it’s been an encouraging year: the order books are full following an enforced
pause in automation projects during 2020, and, if anything, the momentum behind demand for machine vision has gathered pace as the year’s progressed. What’s put the brakes on growth is the shortage in semiconductor components that’s affecting every industry from cars to consumer electronics, and it’s unclear as yet when the supply chain issues will ease. A number of firms celebrated
significant milestones this year. Framos turned 40, as did Cognex. Robert Willett, Cognex’s CEO, commemorated the occasion with a trip to the Nasdaq site in Times Square at the end of November to ring the opening bell. Matrox was formed 45 years ago in the early days of the microprocessor. In this issue, on page 10, we speak to Matrox co-founder Lorne Trottier about how image processing has changed since he developed his first product in 1976. From the old to the new, this issue
also features technology from two new ventures: Deep Detection (page 4), which has taken advances in particle physics to build an industrial spectral X-ray camera that can spot plastic contamination in food, something that other inspection methods are unable to do. And Isak du Preez’s Axiscan (page 6), who has come up with a new twist on 3D deflectometry to measure reflective surfaces, which is getting interest from BMW and other car manufacturers. Next year promises much for these
early-stage companies, as it does for the more established players like Matrox. We wish all our readers in the vision industry a prosperous New Year.
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