VISION & CONTROL – PIONEERING VISION
We have formatively influenced industrial image processing during the past 20 years by setting important benchmarks with our innovative, future-oriented products. The team led by Managing Director Dr Geffe has always kept ahead of the pack with achievements ranging from the introduction of telecentric lenses and the pioneering use of LED lighting in industrial environments to the first intelligent cameras.
We will continue to blaze new trails in our future product development too. The strengths we rely on are teamwork, the personal achievements of every individual and our many years of experience and close cooperation with our partners. Our aim is to offer our customers a high-quality, flexibly applicable modular system of components for machine vision tasks. We pursue this goal by tackling every challenge, generating new ideas and finding the solution for your task by keeping with our company slogan – pioneering vision.
Our milestones
Early 1990’s | Telecentric for industrial image processing presented |
Mid-1990’s | Introduction of LED lighting for machine vision applications |
1997 | Market launch of the “Vision & Control – Component System” |
1998 | First megapixel measuring system based on the intelligent camera pictor |
First generation of machine vision sensors for pattern and mark recognition, image comparison | |
2001 | Vision Academy, first German training centre for machine vision, founded |
2004 | High-performance extension: Individually configurable vicosys multi-camera systems |
2005 | Adaptive lighting allowing brightness distribution to be adjusted flexibly by time and location |
Patent for a new generation of drill hole inspection systems | |
2006 | Record achievement: intelligent cameras with Gigahertz signal processors |
2007 | Strategic co-operation with Schunk Spann- und Greiftechnik, Lauffen / Germany, in the field of robot vision |
Market launch of Third generation of camat vision sensors | |
10 years anniversary of the “Vision & Control – Component System”: more than 20,000 applications running by using Vision & Control components | |
2008 | Introduction of fourth generation camat vision sensors with remote sensor heads |
Completion of the new development and competence centre |
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Early 1990’s | Mid-1990’s | 1998 | 1998 | 2007 | 2008 |
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