Qualitätssicherung

24.07.2025 • News

Thales and Hexagon Form a Strategic Partnership

Hexagon's manufacturing intelligence division becomes a technology partner for Thales' operations and quality assurance across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

24.07.2024 • News

Faster quality control for 3D printed machine parts

Identifying potential flaws without having to remove the parts from the manufacturing equipment.

18.06.2024 • News

Terahertz line scanner for industrial applications

The FBH has developed a monolithically integrated THz detector for plastic components, enabling cost-effective realization of larger scan line lengths in industrial environments.

02.05.2024 • News • Machine Vision

Viscom: Sales in Switzerland under its own management again

Viscom parted ways with its Swiss distribution partner Hilpert electronics and is now selling its inspection systems there independently again.

07.02.2024 • News

New lasers for digital holography

MultiLambdaChip project gets underway with Hübner Photonics, Carl Zeiss, Cybertechnologies, University of Freiburg, and the Fraunhofer IPM.

31.01.2024 • News • Machine Vision

Slump overcome: The machine vision market is growing again

According to a study by market research company Interact Analysis, the market for industrial machine vision will grow again in 2024.

09.08.2023 • News

Cretec Cybernetics becomes Vision On Line

As of June 1, 2023, Vision On Line has taken over the business operations of the insolvent Cretec Cybernetics. The managing directors are Andreas Schaarschmidt and, since July 1, Oliver Herrmann.

08.08.2023 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Why lighting matters when using camera systems

Proper lighting is crucial for cameras to accurately inspect object features. Learn how different lighting techniques, like coaxial and dark field, impact image quality and inspection success.

21.06.2023 • Contributions • Machine Vision

inspect award 2023: Vote now and choose the best innovations

The jury of the inspect award 2023 has nominated ten products each in the categories "Vision" and "Automation + Control". Now it's the readers' turn to vote.

24.04.2023 • News

Göpel wins Agentek as a distributor in Israel

With immediate effect, Göpel's inspection solutions are available in Israel through the distributor Agentek. The distributor is a specialist for scientific instruments and quality control equipment.

14.04.2023 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Cameras Ensure Perfectly Placed Heat Sinks

Quality Assurance in Electronics

05.04.2023 • News

Fraunhofer Vision with numerous exhibits at Control 2023

The Fraunhofer Vision Business Unit will be exhibiting numerous measuring and inspection systems for camera-based quality assurance in production at Control 2023.

30.03.2023 • News

VDI publishes new guidelines for OCT processes

Guideline VDI/VDE 5565 Sheet 1 describes the OCT process and defines the terms required for this

14.02.2023 • News

Viscom concludes distribution agreement for Poland

Viscom has found a distribution partner for Poland with PB Technik, effective Feb. 1, 2023. The contract covers inspection systems for electronics manufacturing.

08.02.2023 • News

35th Control: Meeting place for quality assurance

This year's Control will be held in Stuttgart from May 9 to 12, 2023.

17.01.2023 • News

Phil-Vision offers training for image processing software Sherlock

Phil-Vision is offering several beginner training courses for Teledyne Dalsa's Sherlock image processing software. Starting on February 14, 2023.

13.01.2023 • News

Management change at Volume Graphics

Since 1 January 2023, Volume Graphics has a new management team: Bernhard Fink, Christian Graf and Daniela Handl.

11.01.2023 • News

Inspection systems from Göpel included in the IPC-CFX-2591 Qualified Products List

Göpel's inspection systems have been added to the IPC-CFX-2591 Qualified Products List. This step is part of the commitment to Smart Factory solutions.

14.11.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision

The winners of the inspect award 2022 have been announced

The winners of the inspect award 2022 have been announced. Three products in each of the two categories received awards at the Vision trade show.

11.11.2022 • News

Preparations begin for the 35th Control

The fair will take place in Stuttgart in mid-May 2023

24.10.2022 • News

Visiconsult: Big crowd at sales conference

In mid-October, more than 60 sales partners attended Visiconsult for a conference to discover new topics related to the NDT division brand VCxray.

23.09.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Optimizing Print Cylinder Positioning in Floor Covering Production with a Complex Machine Vision System

The production process of floor coverings that look like wood has undergone an evolution that now requires accurate comprehensive testing. The imaging challenge can only be solved with a machine vision system that respects the special production conditions.

23.09.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Embedded Vision Solution Increases Construction Site Safety

A robust system using embedded hardware, optimized computer vision software, and data analytics tools enables the automation of the helmet usage monitoring on a construction site.

20.09.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Assessing Product Quality with the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Deep learning can help to make decisions at the level of human experts, ensuring that food products meet the customer’s visual requirements.

08.09.2022 • News

Evident to be sold to Bain Capital

Olympus is divesting its Evident subsidiary, which provides scientific and industrial solutions. The buyer is the private equity firm Bain Capital. According to the agreement concluded, all shares in Evident will be transferred to Bain Capital on January 4, 2023.

07.09.2022 • News

Better control in additive manufacturing

The elastic properties depend on structure size, process and fabrication parameters.

31.08.2022 • News

VC Xray expands sales in France

VC Xray, a division of Visiconsult, has signed Actemium NDT-P&S as its French distributor. Actemium will offer its customers X-ray inspection solutions with maintenance and service support.

02.08.2022 • News

Precitec expands company headquarters

The official laying of the foundation stone for the expansion of Precitec's main site for laser cutting and welding heads in Gaggenau took place on July 25, 2022. The building is scheduled to be ready for move-in in the summer of 2023.

15.06.2022 • Contributions • Automation

"Networking Is only just Beginning"

Christian Heller, Head of Product Management at K. A. Schmersal, talks about the role of digitalization and networking as well as radio technology in machine safety.

15.06.2022 • Contributions • Automation

Machine Safety: Best Networked

Networking is the trend - also in machine safety. The electrical designer has various options for connecting safety switching devices that offer significant advantages over conventional series connection. Which solution is best depends on the individual requirements.

31.05.2022 • Contributions • Automation

The Optimal Assembly Workstation

From a simple standard work table to a (partially) automated high-tech workstation with robotic support and optical assistance systems - with the right components, the optimum task-specific assembly workstation can be configured ready for use for almost any requirement.

30.05.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision

No computer Chips without Industrial Image Processing

Machine vision technologies contribute to a high level of quality in all process steps of semiconductor manufacturing. Which concrete application scenarios of industrial image processing are conceivable in the production and inspection of semiconductors and what relevance does the software have in this context?

30.05.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision

Quality Assurance Systems in Transition

Despite artificial intelligence, automation and additive manufacturing, inspection systems remain essential to industrial production. What is changing above all are the components. Quality assurance must therefore transform, for example in the direction of robot-assisted automatic 3D measurement systems.

22.04.2022 • News

Fraunhofer Vision at Control 2022

At the Fraunhofer Vision booth, the focus is on machine learning and associated artificial intelligence methods. The central exhibit is an AI-based robot.