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Just recently and in line with its overall goal to continiously offer valuable and beneficial services to member entities, the EMVA introduced a brandnew initiative, the EMVA Peer Group ‘IP-Protection, Patents, and Trolls‘.
After having founded a respective LinkedIn Group, now the 1st peer group online meeting has been scheduled and EMVA members are invited to join the meeting 'Best Practices in Answering Hostile Patent Complaints' on March 3rd, at 3 p.m. CET.
Registration runs via joining the LinkedIn Group.

The EMVA today proudly announces that
Mark T. Hofmann will give the closing keynote at the 20th edition of the EMVA Business Conference.

Mark T. Hofmann is a Business Psychologist and Crime Analyst. He has specialized in Behavioral- & Cyber-Profiling and conducted scientific interviews with criminals, psychopaths and hackers to understand the internal perspective. Already at the age of 28 he trained police officers from different countries in Interrogation- and Profiling-Techniques.

Details may be found via SPEAKERS and AGENDA at the event web platform www.business-conference-emva.org.

FRAMOS, the global leading supplier of imaging components, welcomes Daniel Otto as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Since the start of February, Daniel Otto is the worldwide head of sales and marketing and is part of the management team.

In his career, Daniel Otto has held management positions in sales and technical support, with well-known manufacturers that include IDS, Cognex and Rockwell Automation. His wealth of experience and knowledge, with both German and American companies, at an international level, will be beneficial in his understanding customers and aligning FRAMOS to meet their expectations, as a global player in the imaging sector. Read more ›

Following the consequent strategy to broadening its portfolio of AI-supported computer vision solutions Macnica ATD Europe today announced a distribution agreement with Retrocausal. Headquartered in Seattle, U.S.A, Retrocausal is the industry leader in human action recognition systems that help front-line manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive. Through intelligent observation the Retrocausal action recognition system called Pathfinder Apollo analyzes complex manual activities to help operators avoid assembly errors and improve training in manual and repetitive work on the assembly line. The Pathfinder software is a hardware agnostic, self-service platform that detects any error in the performance of tasks by operators on an assembly line and triggers audible and visual alerts upon the error. Read more ›

Lettuce is a valuable crop in Europe and the USA. But labor shortages make it difficult to harvest this valuable field vegetable, as sourcing sufficient seasonal labor to meet harvesting commitments is one of the sector's biggest challenges. Moreover, with wage inflation rising faster than producer prices, margins are very tight. In England, agricultural technology and machinery experts are working with IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH (Obersulm, Germany) to develop a robotic solution to automate lettuce harvesting. Read more ›

ntuitive operation, uncomplicated handling, user-friendly software: With the recent update of its cxSupportPackage 2022.2, AT – Automation Technology offers its customers an optimized kit of software programs, with which the 3D sensors of the North German technology company can be used even easier and quicker. The cxSupportPackage is a variety of tools that customers can use to acquire 3D images, configure the 3D camera and provide 3D data in the form of range maps or point clouds, among other things. Read more ›

Neousys Nuvo-8108GC-QD is an industrial-grade GPU computer that supports NVIDIA® A6000/ A4500. With a patented mechanical design highlighting heat dissipation and a dedicated GPU mounting bracket, it can survive a factory's harsh and shock/vibration conditions. There is also an additional x16 and two x8 PCIe slots for camera link/ USB3.1 frame grabber cards, it is an AI machine vision platform that is ideal for various high-quality vision inspection applications. Read more ›

Various connector types exist for the MIPI CSI-2 interface. Vision Components accordingly offers a range of MIPI cables and customer-specific configuration options. Thanks to a SerDes adapter board developed by VC, coax cables up to 10 meters and longer can now be used with the MIPI interface. VC’s specially developed FPC cable (Flexible Printed Circuit) is available in three standard versions with 15, 22 or 24 pins, in lengths of 60 mm, 100 mm or 200 mm. Thus, it connects to all common single-board computers and CPU boards. Notably, it supports the full performance of the MIPI interface. Most processors feature a processing speed of 1.5 Gbps per lane and four lanes – transfer rates of 6 Gbps are possible, which corresponds to 750 MB/s at an 8-bit pixel resolution. Read more ›