MATELAN Research - ISRA VISION AG
MATELAN Research - ISRA VISION AG
MATELAN Research - ISRA VISION AG
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<strong>ISRA</strong> <strong>VISION</strong> In-Depth Report<br />
Automotive, electrical<br />
and pharma could<br />
become main drivers of<br />
future growth, German<br />
companies show strong<br />
positioning in these<br />
industries<br />
Inspections systems for<br />
discrete items still the<br />
most important<br />
application<br />
Different products used<br />
for different fields of<br />
application<br />
Symbol reading and<br />
discrete inspection show<br />
highest growth rates in<br />
2010<br />
- 15 -<br />
On the back of current market developments at the major customers we<br />
would expect further growth for the European machine vision industry to be<br />
fuelled in particular from the important segments, automotive and electrical,<br />
but also pharma and medical. Looking at the German machine vision<br />
companies, we find them over-proportionately strong positioned in particular<br />
in the automotive but also the pharma industries, which should give them an<br />
edge over their European competitors. It should also be noted that some<br />
machine vision companies are able to generate high growth in industries that<br />
are growing more moderately as a result of for example their market<br />
positioning or their product offering.<br />
DISCRETE INSPECTION SYSTEMS REMAIN KEY APPLICATION<br />
The applications of machine vision technology are as multifaceted as the<br />
customer industries that use them. The most important applications can be<br />
found in inspection, i.e. the inspection of discrete items and the inspection of<br />
continuous materials, such as paper, plastic films or sheet metal, also known<br />
as “web inspection”. Discrete systems accounted for 46.5% of all vision<br />
applications in 2010. Together, both applications came to 59.5%. Metrology<br />
is the second most important field of application. Here 3D metrology alone<br />
accounts for 13% out of a total of 16%.<br />
Separating the two product categories of vision systems, we find that the<br />
distribution of applications varies significantly. Inspection systems are clearly<br />
the most important application for more sophisticated application-specific<br />
and configurable systems. Compact systems, such as smart cameras and<br />
vision sensors, are more often used in metrology as well as in character<br />
recognition, part recognition and symbol reading.<br />
In terms of growth, we find the highest rate (49%) in symbol reading, i.e. bar<br />
codes & dot-matrix codes. Growth here is particularly driven by the<br />
industries’ increased efforts to make their supply and value added chains<br />
consistently traceable. Given that regulations across the globe increasingly<br />
require this, we expect their growth to remain above average. Discrete<br />
inspection systems and 2D metrology also grew over-proportionately in 2010.<br />
The strong development of others, might point at strong innovation, though<br />
areas widely related to inspection or measuring tasks might be included in<br />
here.<br />
Market shares and growth rates by applications<br />
60%<br />
50%<br />
40%<br />
30%<br />
20%<br />
10%<br />
0%<br />
Source: EMVA<br />
Inspection<br />
(discrete)<br />
Inspection<br />
(continuous)<br />
Metrology<br />
Symbol<br />
reading<br />
Guidance<br />
Character<br />
recognition<br />
Part<br />
recognition<br />
2009 2010 Growth (r.s.)<br />
Other<br />
200%<br />
150%<br />
100%<br />
50%<br />
0%<br />
-50%<br />
-100%