The highly anticipated Vision 2008 trade show arrived at Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany this week beginning on Tuesday, November 4 and running through November 6, 2008.

Approximately 300 exhibitors from almost 30 nations are scheduled to present at the show to over 6,000 visitors from around the world looking for information on innovations in the machine vision industry.

Vision 2008 is an international trade fair for machine vision and identification technologies. It is an innovation show, acquisition platform and know-how transfer forum rolled into one. The latest developments are presented and discussed during the Industrial VISION Days. Outstanding innovations are recognized by the VISION Award.

Lucrative business relations are also established during the trade fair as visitors forge contacts with suppliers and fill the order books of the exhibitors. VISION, the leading international trade fair, is therefore turning into the most important sales channel for the entire machine vision market.

All in all, VISION is the leading marketplace for the international machine vision industry.

Examples of highly anticipated annoucements include:

*PixeLINK's new, smaller and “sexier” line of FireWire B cameras

*CIS' Smart Security Camera with newly added Video Image Stabilization by Human Monitoring- VCC-V90S

*Sony new GigE Industrial Camera line*

      *New GigE line from Sony has not yet been confirmed but I am adding it until I hear otherwise!