Info event taking place 27 January 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
89 M EUR budget call for Key Enabling Technologies with a lot of opportunities for the EMVA community.
Of special interest would be the call ICT30.b – Innovation Actions: Application driven core photonic devices integrated in systems.
The Standard 1288 Release 3.1 is in effect since December 30, 2016.
No objections were filed after its publication on September 30, 2016. The most important addition to the previous release is a standardized one-page summary sheet of easy side by side camera comparison.
All new documents are available at the EMVA website (https://www.emva.org/standards-technology/emva-1288/emva-standard-1288-downloads/).
Several companies are offering trainings focusing on the new features of release 3.1, given by the EMVA 1288 chair, Prof.Bernd Jähne:
EMVA members receive rebates for both courses!
The EMVA Team today opened the registration for the 15th edition of the EMVA Business Conference taking place June 22-24, 2017, in Prague Czech Republic. Conference venue will be the Hilton Old Town Prague.
Registration and details at www.business-conference-emva.org
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Find our most recent published articles at all the interesting www.emva.org/news-media/media/case-studies/
Jochem Herrmann, EMVA President, and Sayed Soliman representing the main sponsor MaxxVision, had the pleasure to welcome nearly 120 attendees for the traditional Vision Night. The Restaurant Plenum located right in the city centre of Stuttgart was well prepared to receive the machine vision community. In a casual setting VISION exhibitors and visitors exchanged ideas and expectations looking forward to three exciting trade show days.
With nearly 10.000 visitors the VISION show again grew significantly and confirmed to be the worldwide leading trade show for our industry.
At the EMVA organised International Vision Standards Booth this year the GenICam 10 years anniversary was highlighted. But also all other presented Standard activities were well received and interested visitors frequently discussed the new developments with the experts.
“We are very happy that all our proposed networking events around the VISION Show were so well attended. Looking forward we announced the brand new “Embedded VISION Europe”, conference taking place first time 12-13 October 2017 in Stuttgart, and got very positive feedback regarding this new EMVA initiative.” said Thomas Lübkemeier, EMVA General Secretary.
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria’s largest non-university research institute, is among the European research institutes a specialist in the key infrastructure issues of the future.
In the field of high-performance image processing AIT has a recognized position on the international technological and scientific level. More than 100 experts conduct research in close collaboration with leading companies in industry and science in focused intelligent vision systems areas such as “high performance vision”, “industrial quality inspection” and “3D vision & modeling”. A significant competitive advantage forms the close linkage of sophisticated scientific algorithms on the one hand and technological expertise in the efficient implementation (software and dedicated hardware) on the other. The AIT maintains successful strategic alliances and partnerships with leading organizations from industry and academia in the image processing area
From 10-14 October the event will gather 81 experts from around the world to discuss the future of Machine Vision, in the City of Liège, Belgium.
It will be 5 days of intensive work, debates and exchanges on the standard software and hardware interfaces in the Vision Systems Industry. From GenICam, GigE Vision and Camera Link to USB3, CoaXPress and Camera Link HS, all standards will be discussed.
The event will also see the celebration of GenICam’s 10th Birthday. This software standard was born in September 2006 and provides a generic programming interface for all kinds of cameras.
ISORG is the pioneering company in Organic and Printed Electronics devices for large-area photodetectors and image sensors with a paradigm shift in the industry. ISORG converts plastic and glass surfaces into smart surfaces. ISORG offers a new generation of high performance imagers with 3D product integration capability recognizing any shapes and form factors.
Smart Vision Lights (Muskegon, Mich.) is a leading designer and manufacturer of high-brightness LED lights for industrial applications, including machine vision. Smart Vision Lights products come with universal internal current-control drivers, offering constant or strobed operation, reduced wiring requirements, and easy installation. Smart Vision Lights products also are the safest on the market thanks to the company’s in-house IEC 62741 light-testing laboratory, guaranteeing conformity and compliance for your lighting systems, regardless of where they are installed around the globe
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) has reached a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire the business of Point Grey Research, Inc., a leading developer of machine vision cameras for use in industrial, retail, scientific, traffic, mapping, and other advanced imaging applications, for approximately $253 million in cash.
Founded in 1997 and based in Richmond, British Columbia, Point Grey is a global leader in the development of advanced visible imaging cameras and solutions that are used in industrial automation systems, medical diagnostic equipment, people counting systems, intelligent traffic systems, military and defense products, and advanced mapping systems. Point Grey designs, manufactures, and distributes its cameras and related software to a global base of customers that build systems for improving the efficiency, quality, analysis, and safety of a wide range of processes and products.
The addition of the Point Grey business will augment FLIR’s existing OEM cores and components business by adding a broad range of visible spectrum machine vision cameras and solutions. Additionally, FLIR’s thermal sensor technology, with its unique ability to remotely measure temperature, see through factory obscurants such as smoke and steam, and accurately detect and characterize human activity in retail settings, will further extend Point Grey’s product range into new application spaces. The business will become FLIR’s Integrated Imaging Solutions line of business operating within the OEM and Emerging segment.
“We’re excited to add the broad range of innovative products from Point Grey to FLIR as together we have a unique capability to create advanced sensing solutions for the broad machine vision market,” said Andy Teich, President and CEO of FLIR. “Thermal imaging technology provides vision systems customers an alternative imaging spectrum that offers a rich, largely untapped layer of information that can be further leveraged. Point Grey’s global presence and credibility in industrial vision systems provides a strong platform for us to integrate our leading thermal technology. Point Grey is a proven, high-performing business with an impressive set of products, customers, processes, and people, all of which we see as being highly synergistic and strategically significant to FLIR. We welcome the Point Grey employees to FLIR and look forward to creating highly valuable solutions for a wide array of intelligent imaging applications.”
The transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2016. FLIR anticipates the business and related transaction costs will be approximately $0.01 dilutive to its 2016 earnings per share and accretive for 2017.
