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Industry Trends Highlights 2008 p2 of 4:

• AUTOMATICA 2008 expected to draw record exhibitors and visitors
  APRIL 16, 2008--AUTOMATICA 2008, 3rd International Trade Fair for Automation, will be held June 10--13, 2008, at the New Munich Trade Fair Center in Munich, Germany.
• Image-sensor market set to bounce back
  APRIL 14, 2008--After a rare setback in 2007, the worldwide image-sensor market is expected to increase by 10% to a high of nearly $7.6 billion from about $6.9 billion, according a IC Insights report.
• Report shows versatility, increased use of adaptive control technology
  MARCH 31, 2008--Adaptive controllers are gradually breaking out of the confines of research environments and finding their way into various industries.
• VisionChina continues to grow
  MARCH 28, 2008--The 5th China International Machine Vision Exhibition and Machine Vision Technology & Application Conference (VisionChina2008) will be held November 25--27, 2008, in Beijing, China.
• PCB industry holding steady
  MARCH 27, 2008--IPC President Denny McGuirk says, "Although we are only two months into 2008 in terms of available data, the industry appears to be holding steady compared to last year. "
• AIA study shows mixed, generally healthy growth for machine vision
  MARCH 28, 2008--A new study, Machine Vision Markets--2007 Results and Forecasts to 2012, published by the AIA (Ann Arbor, MI, USA), reports that machine vision and automated imaging continue to grow in North America.
• IEEE task force expects to ratify Power over Ethernet Plus by 2009
  MARCH 25, 2008--The Ethernet Alliance (Mountain View, CA, USA) has announced that the IEEE P802.3at task force has created IEEE P802.3at/Draft 3.0 and has submitted it for technical review of the draft standard.
• Packaging industry predicts mixed growth for 2008
  MARCH 10, 2008--Consumer and industrial goods companies plan on spending approximately $6.304 billion for packaging machinery in 2008, according to a study by PMMI (Arlington, VA, USA).
• Study sees strong demand in Europe for beverage packaging machinery
  MARCH 7, 2008--IMS Research (Wellingborough, UK) forecasts that EMEA sales of packaging machinery equipment will increase to €13 billion by 2012.
• North American robot orders jump 24% in 2007
  MARCH 6, 2008--North American-based robotics companies saw orders to North American manufacturing companies rise 24% in 2007, according to a new report released by the RIA (Ann Arbor, MI, USA).

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