The use of industrial vision as part of Industry 4.0 and smart factories has been discussed extensively in recent years, but requires machines to speak the same language.
Machine vision systems consist of several component parts, including illumination, lenses, camera, image acquisition and data transfer, and image processing and measurement software.
According to the results of the recent VDMA Machine Vision Market Survey the industry turnover of the machine vision sector in Germany in 2012 almost reached its previous peak value of 2011.
