
New generation
With IDS NXT, the industrial camera manufacturer IDS presents a new generation of vision app-based sensors and cameras that can perform various image processing applications independently or with PC support.
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With IDS NXT, the industrial camera manufacturer IDS presents a new generation of vision app-based sensors and cameras that can perform various image processing applications independently or with PC support.

Vision Components presented embedded vision systems at Embedded World.
Atlas Copco inaugurates extension
Atlas Copco opened its new customer world with innovation center in Bretten at the beginning of March. In future, joining technology solutions for the automotive industry and other sectors will be developed here.
Cleaning machines and systems, especially in the sensitive food sector, is a technical challenge. Certain areas are often difficult to access and the systems must always be optimally clean.

Interview with Dr. Albert Schmidt
Cameras are playing an increasingly important role in production and quality control. They relieve the burden on people and expand the possibilities of visual inspection. They are part of entire networks of components. In order to cope with the large amounts of data, the industry relies on "intelligent" cameras that not only provide data, but also deliver results. But what must the camera be able to do, what makes it intelligent? Dr. Albert Schmidt, Managing Director of Baumer's Vision Competence Center, provides answers.

Flexible labeling solution. Packaging specialist Linhardt relies on special film labels and a labeling system from Herma to label an oil core system.

With the Visual Rotating Inspector VRI, Antares Vision presents inline or standalone inspection machines developed in accordance with GAMP 5 for the inspection of medical containers made of glass or plastic for all types of liquids as well as for powders or freeze-dried medicines.
The Fraunhofer IVV has developed a mobile cleaning device that uses Baumer sensors and cameras to detect contamination in processing systems and then cleans them in a hygienic manner.

Baumer is expanding its compact CX and EX camera series to include ten models with rolling shutter CMOS sensors with resolutions between five and 20 megapixels.
The Lapp Group's turnover increased by 13.9% to EUR 1,026.8 million in the 2016/17 financial year. This is the first time that the global market leader for integrated cable and connection technology solutions has achieved sales of more than one billion euros in a single year.