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Future Trends in Machine Vision 2011
Adapted from AMC Market Intelligence Report
Future Trends in Machine Vision 2011
by Holger Hofmann, AMC
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Content of this presentation - „Future Trends in Machine Vision 2011“
Who should see this presentation?
Why this report?
Introduction to the Market Intelligence Report
Industries and Vendors involved
Technologies
User Requirements
Future Trends Outlook
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An in-depth insight into „Future Trends in MV 2011“
Who should see this presentation?
Everybody interested in Machine Vision (MV)
MV Technologies
MV Applications
MV Markets
MV Companies
Everybody interested in Applications and Markets, where Machine Vision can or will be used.
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Why this report?
Discussions with vendors and users of automation technologies about their needs for
information has shown that in addition to that valuable information available in our Market
Intelligence Reports about the markets and applications, some further future orientated
technological topics would be of interest.
The content selected for those topics is a direct result of many discussions with end users and
vendors of Machine Vision and vision based automation equipment.
The Market Intelligence Report (MIR) “Future Trends in Machine Vision” therefore is focused
on these topics, showing information on important trends collected from more than 90
companies, such as Bluebotics, Cognex, Comau, Dalsa, Edixia, Fatronik, HGV, LMI,
Motoman Robotics, MVTech, National Instruments, Sick; Tordivel, Universal Robotics
and many more, being active in Machine Vision, most of them with a strong expertise in
guidance and robot vision.
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Introduction: „Future Trends in MV 2011“ Presentation
Real time detection and the integration of machine vision are the most important
machine vision topics for companies focused on robotics and automation in the near
future.
Almost 100 companies representing industries such as Agriculture & Forestry, Aerospace,
Automotive, Food & Packaging, Logistics, Medical Engineering, Military & Defense,
Photovoltaic, Security & Surveillance and Service Robotics reported back about their
expectation for the future potentials of several technical topics and applications and the most
pressing user requirements.
The topics addressed and explained within the report include technologies that are already
well known such as real time detection, integration and camera resolution but also new hot
topics like HDR (high dynamic range), computational cameras and cloud computing for
machine vision. To see how important those technologies already are for the industries and
which potential for business is to be expected is also one of the goals of the market
intelligence report as well as giving clear and understandable explanations for each of the
technology topics.
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Inside the full report „Future Trends in MV 2011“ "High" rating of Technologies by Robotic Companies
Increase in camera dynamic range 21%
Regions where vendors are present and active
Overviews Computational cameras 36%
Real- time detection, moving objects 60%
Australia / Oceania 22,1% Further system / product price reduction 53%
Russia 25,0% Use of color information 47%
India 32,1% Analysis of point clouds 43%
Japan 29,1% Increase in camera resolution 16%
China 36,6% Cloud computing for Machine Vision 21%
"High" rating of Technologies by System Integrators
Middle East / Africa 21,3% Vision systems integrated into the … 61%
South America 37,8% Increase in camera dynamic range
0% 20% 40% 31%
60% 80% 100%
North America 63,1% Computational cameras 23%
Real- time detection, moving objects 46%
Southern Europe 57,8%
Explanations Central Europe 59,3%
Further system / product price reduction 56%
Use of color information 43%
Western Europe 63,4% Analysis of point clouds 50%
Northern Europe 67,5% Increase in camera resolution 17%
Germany, Austria, Switzerland 77,9% Cloud computing for Machine Vision 21%
Vision systems integrated into the "robot… 63%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Trends
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MIR: „Future Trends“ – Vendors and their fields of expertise involved
In order to give broad overviews, provide new information and see trends coming down the
road from other “industries”, the companies involved in the report represent different core
competences emerging in different regions and many industries as well.
Core competence of the Companies
100% 88,9%
• 53% of the vendors interviewed identified 90%
80%
themselves as System Integrator
70%
60% 52,2% 53,3%
50% 41,1%
40%
• 88,9 % of all companies claim machine 30%
20% 15,6%
vision as core competence. 7,8%
10%
0%
Machine Robotics & System Machine Automation Line
Vision Positioning Integration Building Building
The report represents information provided by turnkey suppliers, system integrators, product and component
manufacturers and manufacturing companies out of Europe and North America, such as, Adept Technology,
Bluebotics, Cognex, Comau, Dalsa, Edixia, Fatronik, HGV, LMI, Motoman Robotics, MVTech, National Instruments,
Sick, Tordivel, Universal Robotics and many more.
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MIR: „Future Trends“ – Rating of the Technologies
Within the survey companies where asked about their expectation of several topics for the near future of
Machine Vision and Robot Vision.
Participating companies rated the importance of the topics in one of the four categories “None”, “Low”,
“Average” and “High”. Multiple selections have not been allowed
"High" rating for Technologies
Increase in camera dynamic range 31%
Computational cameras 31%
Real- time detection, moving objects 50%
Further system / product price reduction 43%
Use of color information 39%
Analysis of point clouds 46%
Increase in camera resolution 24%
Cloud computing for Machine Vision 19%
Vision system integrated into the "Robot Controller" 55%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
The analysis of point clouds as a topic strongly The integration of vision systems into (robot)
dedicated to 3D imaging gets one of the highest controllers is a topic for many years and already
rankings with 46% of the votes. utilized by several companies, but it remains a very
important topic for the future (55%).
Real- time detection / tracking of moving parts is ranked
high by 50% of the participants.
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MIR: „Future Trends“ – Rating of User Requirements
Participating companies rated the importance of the topics in one of the four categories “None”, “Low”,
“Average” and “High”. Multiple selections have not been allowed
"High" rating of User Requirements
Responsiveness of supplier to service and support requests 42%
Responsiveness of supplier to application specific requests 59%
Price / Performance ratio 62%
Miniaturization of components 13%
System reliability / robustness 74%
System accuracy 58%
Data mining & SPC 10%
Processing speed 51%
User Interface 66%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
System reliability and robustness, the user Most of the topics addressed do have relatively high
interface, and the price / performance ratio got ratings. Only data mining and the miniaturization of
the highest rating for “High Potential” overall. components are rated relatively low.
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MIR: „Future Trends in Machine Vision 2011“ – Outlook
Machine Vision traditionally was focused on the industrial markets. Looking back to the 90´s
market leading vendors used this message in their naming such as “Cognex - Vision for
Industry”. In the last years the Machine Vision business changed. It is developing more and
more into other markets and applications outside the traditional industrial business.
At the same time technologies and trends from other industries, especially consumer
electronic markets influenced the Machine Vision business and helped to open new areas in
the traditional industrial markets.
In the moment we see the world become 3- dimensional – a trend that is pushed from several
directions: Machine Vision, industrial measurement and consumer markets such as gaming
and video entertainment as well. This is only one example showing how things come together,
influencing the whole business, changing markets and their vendors.
Therefore it is of high importance to monitor all these developments and changes in
technologies and markets. Market Intelligence Reports help you to keep track, be prepared
and stay on top of these changes and developments.
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