CONTENTS & LEADER Vision Yearbook 2022/2023


When the chips are down


T Product roadmap


Some of the new technology that suppliers have planned for release for the coming year


Vision landscape analysis Business on the move 8


How can firms thrive in a maturing vision market, asks Holly Cave


12


Zebra Technologies has made sizable purchases in machine vision over the last year. Donato Montanari reveals why


Coping with chip shortages 14 With no end to the semiconductor shortage in sight, the vision industry has had to adapt, finds Benjamin Skuse


Argument for automation


Machine vision is crucial for UK productivity, say UKIVA’s Neil Sandhu and Allan Anderson


Advice for start-ups


Vision start-ups are proliferating, but what makes young companies successful? Abigail Williams reports


Transformative tech: AI 26


Covision Lab’s grand ambition is to be the leading industrial vision machine learning hub, says its CEO, Franz Tschimben


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22 18 4 Rising star


We speak to Karsten Roth about PatchCore, anomaly detection AI technology that outperforms competitor methods


Vision in Industry 4.0 age 30


As factories get smarter, cybersecurity in imagers is now more important than ever, writes Chainstep’s Mark Hebbel


Transformative tech: SWIR 33


Imec’s Paweł Malinowski on the breakthroughs happening in SWIR imaging


The future of SWIR 34


Nanomaterial SWIR sensors are now ramping up, write Emberion’s CEO and CTO, Jyrki Rosenberg and Tapani Ryhänen


Standards development


Suppliers’ directory Find the suppliers you need


36


The EMVA’s new policies for machine vision standards are designed to protect IP, explains Werner Feith


38 28


he chip shortage has been a thorn in machine vision’s side for more than a year now, and


the disruption it causes looks set to continue into 2023. Benjamin Skuse, in his article on page 14, assesses the crisis, asks how it is affecting vision firms, and finds out what strategies are being used to cope with it. Supply chain issues are hampering


growth in the vision industry, but, on the positive side, there’s strong demand for automation and order books are full. Te vision market is changing rapidly compared to 10 or 20 years ago, thanks to an influx of new technology and interest from larger companies outside of the traditional industrial vision space. Holly Cave examines the vision landscape in her article on page 8, and asks what it takes to thrive in this changing world. We also speak to Donato Montanari at Zebra Technologies on page 12, one of the newer vision providers, about why Zebra has chosen now to enter the vision market. Two of the technology trends that


have been making waves this year – and will continue to do so moving into 2023 – are machine learning and shortwave infrared imaging, both of which are covered in this issue. Tere are also articles on what it takes to be a successful vision start-up (page 22), and a new policy to protect IP in vision standards development implemented by the European Machine Vision Association (page 36). Te pace of change in the vision


industry is accelerating bringing opportunities and challenges. Whatever happens, it will make for an exciting year ahead.


Leader Greg Blackman


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