National Instruments is presenting a free, interactive vision webcast series April 6-8, 2010, featuring industry experts from integration firms and tool providers.

Pepperl+Fuchs has signed an agreement with Siemens Industry Automation Division to acquire Siemens’ binary proximity sensor business, effective June 30, 2010.

AVT has founded a sales subsidiary in Singapore: Allied Vision Technologies Asia. It will be responsible for expanding business in the Asia-Pacific region, including managing the current 11 distributors in 12 countries.

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) will hold its 8th annual Business Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, April 16-17.

Schneider-Kreuznach is expanding its product line to include LED illumination. Currently, it is developing applications in the areas of machine vision and medical and semiconductor technologies.

Andor Technology has joined the Image Acquisition Partner Program from MVTec Software following development of an image acquisition interface between Andor’s cameras and MVTec’s image processing library.

Vision systems company Irvine Sensors has appointed vice president Peter Kenefick as general manager of the company's newly formed Thermal Imaging Division.

Industrial image-processing and surface inspection system provider ISRA Vision says it has managed to remain financially stable despite economic fluctuations.

After a 25% drop, the worst of the recession is over for machine vision, according to IMS Research. Recovery will be steady not meteoric.

A 9.6% increase in year-over-year revenue and 11.8% increase in EBITDA was announce by Lumenera, a division of Roper Industries and a manufacturer digital cameras and custom imaging solutions.

According to IMS Research, the global PLC markets are in the early stages of a recovery but the response of global manufacturing industries is generally slower than the change in the general economy.

Joe Christenson, former head of PPT Vision, was presented with the 2010 Automated Imaging Achievement Award by the AIA.

IPC has announced the December findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.

Prosilica is now officially Allied Vision Technologies Canada, Mike Cyros is CEO, and Steve Prescesky remains president and COO.

VISION 2010 will take place from November 9 to 11, in Stuttgart, Germany.  It will carry the subhead The International Trade Fair for Machine Vision.

FEBRUARY 9, 2010--DALSA has reported revenue from continuing operations of $43.4 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, and net loss from continuing operations of $1.0 million or $0.06 per share, diluted.

FEBRUARY 8, 2010--Material Handling Industry of America and the Automation Technologies Council announce that ProMat and The International Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show will co-locate in 2011.

FEBRUARY 8, 2010--Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced it will open a North American partner company—Specialised Imaging Inc.—in April 2010.

FEBRUARY 2, 2010--Sofradir has been awarded an additional EUR2.5 million contract to provide a second batch of 15-micron-pitch multilinear SWIR arrays for the space-borne Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative.

FEBRUARY 2, 2010--The GigE Vision camera interface standard that has been used by the machine-vision industry since 2006 has recently been updated and Version 1.2 is now available.