GRAFELFING, GERMANY - From December 1, 2008, the recently founded company Opto France S.A.R.L. becomes fully operational. Established in the Rhone Alpes region, at the Parc Altais Galileo facility in
ROCHESTER, NY - Navitar announces the appointment of Patrick Buvé as regional sales manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Buvé will be based in Belgium and will oversee
BURNABY, CANADA-Allied Vision Technologies (AVT) has acquired 100% of Prosilica shares. Both companies will continue to develop FireWire and GigE interface cameras under existing brand names. Further growth also is
ETTLINGEN, GERMANY-Image processing provider Vision Components GmbH has adapted OpenCV, the open source program library, to its VCRT operating system, implementing it on all lines of VC smart cameras. OpenCV
BENSENVILLE, IL-Vision & Sensors announces the inclusion of a blog on its Web site, www.visionsensorsmag.com. In “Learning with Lecky,” Ned Lecky, owner of Lecky Integration (Little Falls, NY), will discuss
MUNICH, GERMANY-Scientific vision technology sales, marketing and development company Autim Inc. now distributes MVTec machine vision software products in the United States and Canada. Besides the distribution of Halcon and
BARRINGTON, NJ-Eugene G. Arthurs, executive director of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, has been elected to the board of directors of Edmund Optics. As a board member,
AKRON, OH-Designer and manufacturer of machine vision systems Applied Vision Corp. was honored as a recipient of the Leading Edge Award presented by the Entrepreneurs Edge, an organization dedicated to
STUTTGART, GERMANY-Vision 2008, an international trade fair for machine vision and identification technologies, held November 4 to 6, 2008, at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Center, included 292 exhibitors and 6,200