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Article: Machine Vision.
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- Control Engineering
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering
Investments are expected to increase 64% in coming year. Setup and configuration is significantly easier; lighting can challenge.
Hey, buddy. Here's a tip: Machine vision is a hot automation investment. Among Control Engineering subscriber survey respondents, 64% expect to increase machine vision purchases in the next 12 months; 29% will invest as much as they did this past year. Last year, 35% expected to increase their spending in 2006 and 54% expected to spend the same.
The leading factor holding back investment remains the amount of available capital budget at 32% (down from 39% in 2005 and 46% in 2004). ...