The current Corona regulation of the state of Baden-Württemberg enables Messe Stuttgart to hold the international trade fair for machine vision in a way that is safe for everyone involved, the organizer is confident. The basis is a four-stage plan that keeps the safety level stable even with increasing incidence figures and thus enables the trade fair to operate.

For example, the corona safety procedures, now familiar from everyday life, will be implemented at the exhibition center, ensuring that all participants are verifiably vaccinated, recovered or tested negative. Corresponding testing capacities are also planned on site. In addition, a general mask obligation applies - the mask can be removed in the restaurant or a catering stand as well as in the outdoor areas of the trade fair.

To ensure that visitors can relax and comply with the distance rules, the aisles are four meters wide and the areas for catering, networking and forums have been extended. In addition, building management ensures adequate fresh air exchange.

Niethammer: "We feel an enormous sense of anticipation for Vision 2021"

"Now that we have a planning basis in the form of the current Corona Ordinance issued by the State of Baden-Württemberg on June 28, we are doing everything we can to make 2021 a successful Vision year!" promises Florian Niethammer, project manager at Messe Stuttgart.  "Despite the dynamic pandemic situation and realistic expectations, we sense enormous anticipation and a great desire among all those involved that the machine vision industry and its clientele can finally meet again in person in Stuttgart," he adds.

250 exhibitors already registered

So far, the list of exhibitors includes around 250 national and international companies with their own booths. In addition, there are various joint stands as well as the start-ups of the Vision Start-up World. Overall, Niethammer and his team expect Vision to be more focused on Europe this year, due to travel restrictions and quarantine regulations that still exist.

Interested parties who are unable to travel to Stuttgart this year will find all exhibiting companies in the online exhibition directory for the trade fair. In addition, Messe Stuttgart will broadcast the "Industrial Vision Days" conference live and on demand for the first time.Also new are the Motek and parts2clean trade fairs, which will be held in parallel.Also new are the Motek and parts2clean trade fairs, which will be held in parallel.  Participants of the two guest events can visit Vision free of charge.

Supporting program of the Vision

At the center of this year's supporting program are the Industrial Vision Days, the world's largest forum for machine vision. Here, innovations and new developments in machine vision will be presented and trends discussed. This year, the Vision Award will also be presented for the first time on the big stage. With this prestigious award, a top-class jury will honor the best innovation from the field of machine vision.

Visitors can also look forward to exciting theme parks: in the Integration Area, for example, system integrators and solution providers will be presenting their specific offerings for various application sectors. Suppliers of industrial PCs will present themselves under the title IPC 4 VISION. In addition to the sponsored BMWi joint stand for young innovative companies from Germany, companies from all over Europe will present their ideas and innovations at the newly created Vision Start-up World.