(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- A new machine-vision market report shows that sales of machine vision components and systems in North America have entered a recovery phase. Overall machine vision sales increased by 34.4 percent during the first quarter of 2010 over weak sales that occurred during the same period last year.
“Quarterly Machine Vision Sales Tracking Report” was recently published by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest and only global machine vision trade group.
The report’s findings are especially encouraging when compared to the results of AIA’s annual market study, “Machine Vision Markets—2009 Results and Forecasts to 2014,” which found that machine vision sales in 2009 declined by 29.2 percent on average from 2008.
The new report also shows that improvement occurred across all major machine-vision supplier markets, including cameras, lighting, optics, imaging boards, software, application-specific machine vision systems, and smart cameras. As a whole, major vision component sales increased 57.2 percent, while machine vision system sales rose by 31.3 percent.
In addition to determining sales results, the report also summarizes industry expectations about sales growth for the next six months compared to the present. The report finds that participating companies were nearly equally split between those that expected sales to increase during the next two quarters and those that believe sales will remain more or less equal in volume to first-quarter 2010 sales.
“The results of the new report leave little doubt that machine vision sales have entered a period of recovery,” notes Paul Kellett, AIA’s director of market analysis. “However, it must be recognized that the robust rates of growth for machine-vision product markets also reflect severely depressed sales in 2009. Based on industry expectations, market growth over 2009 levels will probably continue to occur in 2010, even if growth over first-quarter 2010 levels fails to materialize.”
The report is available to all participating AIA members. AIA also provides regular reports on the health of the machine vision market and economic trends that affect the industry at Market Data and Trends, which is a special section of the Machine Vision Online website at www.machinevisiononline.org.
The AIA Advancing Vision + Imaging—formerly the Automated Imaging Association (AIA)—is committed to advancing vision and imaging technology through educational workshops, conferences and networking opportunities, trade show sponsorship, market research and analysis, standards development, and the world’s leading resource for vision and imaging information—Vision Online. AIA is the world’s largest global machine vision trade group serving more than 320 member companies from 31 countries. Its members include manufacturers of vision components and systems, system integrators, distributors, OEMs, end users, consulting firms, academic institutions, and research groups directly involved with machine vision and imaging.
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