(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.

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