Any development team charged with designing a machine vision or image-processing system must not only understand physics, optics, computer science, and mechanical engineering, but it's also necessary for the development team to be apprised of the latest technologies, standards, and products available from hundreds of companies located worldwide.
To aid you in the latter, our annual Buyers Guide provides the most comprehensive listing of OEM suppliers of machine vision components and image processing equipment available. This 2017 Buyer's Guide is an easy-to-use resource that lists hundreds of companies in more than 120 product categories including industrial cameras, optics, lighting, system boards, automation equipment and software.
Comprised of five sections, this year's Buyers Guide includes Products, a System Integrator location listing, a Distributor location listing, a Company Directory, and Product Category Index. While the Guide's table of contents provides an overview of these sections, the Product index on page 56 includes detailed listings of the all the included product categories. The Products section is a valuable reference that allows you to easily locate companies offering specific types of machine vision system components.
While the print issue of this guide provides a snapshot of the machine vision and image processing industry today, to help you keep up with all the new components and software that are being introduced throughout the year, we offer our dynamic online Buyers Guide.
This online Buyers Guide contains all the product, manufacturer, and system integrator information found in our print version, but because we allow manufacturers to continuously update their information all year long, it also provides you with a dynamic, real-time reference of companies and systems integrators in the machine vision and image processing business.
At vision-systems.com, you can quickly and easily search the entire Buyers Guide by category, company, or keyword. Complementing the online Buyers Guide is our online Industrial Camera Directory, which lists more than 200 camera vendors, their products, and key camera specifications. Also online, you will the latest products, news, applications and technologies in the industry, along with informative webcasts, white papers and editorial digests.
Developing machine vision and image processing systems requires an interdisciplinary engineering approach. We hope that the resources you will find in this Buyers Guide and on our web site will help in bridging these disciplines. Should you have any suggestions of how we may continue to improve our magazine, website, and newsletters, we would like to hear from you. I hope you find this issue useful and look forward to your continued loyalty as a reader of Vision Systems Design.
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