Adimec, a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge industrial camera solutions, announces a new partnership with Rauscher GmbH, a German-based distributor of industrial imaging components.  Through the partnership, Rauscher will provide sales and support of Adimec’s high resolution cameras throughout Germany and Austria.

With Rauscher’s experience in machine vision and industrial imaging, they will provide personal and local access to Adimec’s cameras.  Rauscher’s product portfolio includes frame grabbers, cameras, software, lenses, and more allowing for exceptional integration assistance to imaging system builders.

“We are confident that this relationship will deliver a high level of technical and customer support and enable Adimec continued growth in Germany and Austria,” Joost van Kuijk, Adimec CEO/CMO.

EMVA member Euresys S.A., leading manufacturer of image and video acquisition components, acquisition COTS boards and image processing software, has launched its brand new website. Take a tour at www.euresys.com

Ambienta, the largest European private equity fund specialised in environmental investments, is pleased to announce the purchase of Mikrotron, a German-based leader in high-speed machine vision cameras. Mikrotron, together with Tattile, which Ambienta purchased in 2012, will constitute the core of LakeSight Technologies, the consolidation project backed by Ambienta aimed at building a European leader in the machine vision sector. Machine vision systems, typically used in quality inspection and automation solutions for industrial processes, are crucial in reducing unnecessary processing, thus improving energy and materials efficiency.

FRAMOS, the Germany based provider for imaging solutions and distributor for image sensors and related components today announced it has been appointed by e2v as official distributor for their entire CMOS image sensors portfolio. FRAMOS will today focus on e2v’s JADE, SAPPHIRE, RUBY and ONYX global shutter sensor series up to 2 Mpixels, especially allowing to address special imaging applications in the near infrared (NIR) segment or under extreme low-light imaging conditions, or providing sensors in extended temperature range.

Taking place at Heidelberg University on April 8, 2016, Jochem Herrmann, President of the EMVA, will represent small and medium-sized companies and speak on “Impact of state of the art CMOS Image Sensors and Embedded Vision Technologies on the Machine Vision market of the future” .

After achieving a roughly 25% increase in turnover last year and reinforcing its position in the international market, SVS-VISTEK GmbH now has its sights set on expansion in the new year. Effective 1 January 2016, the Seefeld-based producer of industrial cameras signed Swedish company Metric Industrial AB as its new sales partner for Scandinavia, thus additionally expanding its sales network in Northern Europe.

Arnaud Darmont and Adrien Lombet, APHESA SPRL (Belgium), will talk about EMVA 1288 at the conference “Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2016” taking place 14-18 February 2016 in San Francisco.

STEMMER IMAGING and the Graz-based company Perception Park have signed a cooperation agreement for the distribution of innovative imaging systems based on Chemical Colour Imaging (CCI) technology. CCI combines essential advantages of the basic technologies of chemical imaging (hyperspectral imaging) and colour imaging (Colour image processing) and makes chemical material properties accessible to a completely new range of users through new approaches to data processing.

The GenICam standard group has released GenApi 3.0, a new version of the reference implementation to the GenICam standard. This new major release is a complete re-implementation and bears key advantages to the previous version. GenApi 3.0 enables to load and interpret the camera description file several times faster and has a much smaller memory footprint than the previous version. In addition, more platforms are now supported, in particular regarding the ARM architecture.
All these improvements make the standard in particular interesting for the embedded use case while at the same time the new release is still based on the GenApi standard 2.0 and therefore downward compatible.
The new GenApi reference implementation is the result of three years work of the GenICam standard group in which all major camera and software manufacturers jointly cooperate. It will thus be quickly used by nearly all camera and machine vision software manufacturers.
GenApi 3.0 can be downloaded on the website of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) which hosts the GenICam standard through the following weblink:
https://www.emva.org/standards-technology/genicam/genicam-downloads/