Evaluation of machine vision markets in the UK and Ireland.

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) has published its 2016 Market Report “Machine Vision in the UK and Ireland”. EMVA non-members can obtain the 59 paged pdf-report at a price of € 345,- plus VAT through info@emva.org.

The report for the first time maps the machine vision markets in the UK and Ireland. It covers the vision industry, their customers and the main applications as well as technical and commercial trends. In addition, the “eco system” for machine vision is described, including clusters, research centers and associations, trade shows and special magazines. This is being supplemented by market and growth drivers and an estimate of the market volume.

“Machine vision has a long tradition in the UK from the very beginning of the industry. Today, only a few component manufacturers are located in the country and the market is mainly supplied by vision technology through distributors”, says Andreas Breyer, EMVA’s Director of Market Research and adds: “Integrators play a significant role in the industrial use of machine vision, while the non-industrial sector is at least as important to the machine vision players and strongly growing also fostered by heavy computer vision research in practically all relevant universities across the country.”

In Ireland foreign direct investment is a pillar to the economy as many multinational end-users operate production sites in the country. Many of those are machine vision users. In addition, over the last decade Ireland has become a globally recognized center of excellence in the Life Sciences industry. Other than smart cameras, the main part of machine vision components is imported into Ireland. Notably, there is an extremely dynamic scene of companies which purely concentrate on non-industrial computer vision applications.

“Altogether we have identified close to 300 players in the UK machine vision market and over 40 players in the Irish machine vision market, all of them are listed by name and website in the report,” says Andreas Breyer.

With the current 2016 market report the EMVA continues the strategy to investigate all European markets through the eyes of the machine vision industry.

The 2016 EMVA conference joined 120 attendees and guests for top noche speeches and excellent networking opportunities in Edinburgh.

With his opening keynote ‘In or Out of Europe: An Economic Perspective‘ Martin Vander-Weyer, Financial Journalist and Columnist for The Spectator, got the audience into the Brexit scenario just days before the British referendum.
Very seldom a conference keynote hits an international industry relevant topic with such high currentness.

During 100+ pre-scheduled face-to-face meetings attendees could meet their peers and built new business relationships or simply exchange ideas with colleagues.

The work of Mr. Tolga Birdal, TU Munich, on ‘Reconstruction via Detection: Efficient and Automatic Reconstruction from Unorganized 3D Scans‘ was honored with the 2016 Young Professional Award.

In his conference wrap-up EMVA General Secretary Thomas Lübkemeier could look back on three days full of information but also very enjoyable networking hours during the evening events. Finally he announced the 2017 EMVA Business Conference to take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 22 – 24 June 2017.

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More than 20 machine vision companies took the chance to be present at the first ‘Parma Vision Night‘. Taking place the evening before the SPS Italy opened its doors in Parma the networking event attracted 50+ persons representing trade show exhibitors and also visiting companies.

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The representatives of the two organisers Messe Frankfurt Italy and the EMVA showed themselves impressed by the very positive feedback their proposal received. Both confirmed their plan to repeat the event and establishing it as a fixed topic in the trade show agenda for the years to come.

In 2017 the ‘Parma Vision Night’ will be held on Monday, May 22nd.

In general the SPS Show Italy could achieve new records too, both in number of exhibitors and trade show visitors. 674 exhibitors (+11%) were prepared to present products and services to 28,614 visitors (+22%). Within this success also the exhibitors of our industry again gained increased visibility and attention.

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The presentations held at the “Control Vision Talks Forum” during the four trade show days of the 30. CONTROL in Stuttgart are available for your download.

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