Economic Challenges for Machine Vision
If you produce it, will customers buy it? As with other firms, machine vision companies are wondering how the products they manufacture will sell in the current economy. The concern is well justified; although machine vision products historically have sold quite well over the long term, economic downturns have taken their toll in the short term. The last recession in the US, which occurred in 2001, hit machine vision sales quite hard. Will that happen again?
The long-term trend in machine...
Photonics Spectra, May 2008