VISION LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
‘Te market is moving towards more integrated imaging solutions that place machine vision into wider factory processes’
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food and agri-tech applications though, with important implications for reducing the environmental impact of food production.’
Offering fuller solutions Te market is moving towards more integrated imaging solutions that place machine vision into wider factory processes – integrating robots, machinery and people to collaborate. ‘Tis is leading companies to diversify outside of their traditional technology sphere and take control of more aspects of image processing in the complete automation solution,’ said Ferrari. Many companies in the machine vision
sector are using their application and technical knowledge to specify, design, produce or select additional components that complement or expand their traditional product range. Basler, for example, has been expanding from a camera manufacturer to a full-
range supplier in the past few years. It now supplies a range of hardware components, including lenses, cables, interface cards and frame grabbers. TKH now holds several companies under its TKH Vision umbrella brand, including Allied Vision, Chromasens, LMI Technologies, Mikrotron, Net, SVS- Vistek and Tattile. In 2021, it exhibited all those brands under a single exhibition booth at Vision Stuttgart for the first time. Individually, these companies have long histories within the machine vision market and, together, boast a broad array of technology components, technical expertise and application know-how in both the 2D and 3D spaces.
Backing up hardware with software What is particularly interesting is that TKH Vision is building on its strong hardware product portfolio by putting an increased focus on the group’s software offerings. ‘We’re creating unique smart and integrated plug-and-play systems to fully round out an entire one-stop shop of solutions for customers, fully leveraging the group’s expertise,’ explained Radford. TKH Vision hopes this combination
of hardware, software and application expertise will make them the go-to supplier for machine vision solutions across a
variety of industries and applications. Basler is also developing its software
platform with its Pylon camera software suite – a single tool designed to unify and synchronise the control and operation of all its hardware components. Functionality includes an integrated light-controller, the latest image analysis and processing tools, and harmonised CXP-12 cards and cameras. Te interface and its integrated drivers are free to use until the design phase is done, explained Tiarks. ‘It can be downloaded and immediately used by everyone to create a vision system,’ he said. Te approach demonstrates how
expanding into software brings benefits for hardware manufacturers. As well as offering a useful tool for Basler customers, the platform encourages them to access the webshop and drives them to guidance on the website, where they can be introduced to components and products they might consider purchasing. Te trends in business strategy happening
across the sector look set to continue. While it is clear there is significant space for innovation, consolidation means that, in future, there is likely to be a handful of companies with wide portfolios across both hardware and software, which offer a ‘one- stop shopping experience for customers’, said Tiarks. O
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