North American machine vision market in record year

摘要

Total sales of machine vision components and systems increased 12% to $1.65 billion in the first nine months of 2014, according to new statistics issued by AIA, the industry's trade group. This is the best nine-month start by the North American machine vision market since AIA began tracking quarterly statistics in 2009. Alex Shikany, AIA's director of market analysis, said association members expect machine vision components to increase and systems to remain flat in the next six months. The third quarter of 2014 was especially strong for machine vision systems, which posted growth of 19%. Machine vision components also increased in the third quarter by 2% over last year. Every component and system category increased in the third quarter of 2014 except for lighting and imaging boards. Smart cameras (44%), optics (16%), software (14%) and ASMV systems (14%) were the standout individual categories in terms of year-over-year growth for the third quarter of 2014.