Latest deployments
- Endress+Hauser and MVTec Software: Endress+Hauser Flow in Reinach uses MVTec MERLIC, integrated into its MES, to verify manual flowmeter assembly steps by camera; in use since March 2025.
- La Próxima Estación and KEYENCE: La Próxima Estación runs two KEYENCE IV4 AI vision sensors on its line in Irapuato to detect foreign matter and off-color vegetables, linked to a rejection system it built itself.
- Toast and Instrumental: Toast installed 6 Instrumental stations across 2 hardware programs to inspect each assembly stage of its restaurant point-of-sale hardware at its factory partners.
- Gebr. Baldauf and MVTec Software: The dairy Gebr. Baldauf uses a mobile cheese-care robot from Eberle whose 4K camera and MVTec HALCON deep learning inspect ripening cheese wheels for mold and defects.
- NVIDIA and Instrumental: NVIDIA uses Instrumental's visual AI across its manufacturing network to catch assembly errors on GB200 and GB300 NVL72 server trays before functional test.
- BorgWarner and Cognex: BorgWarner's Changnyeong plant inspects EV power train assemblies with Cognex 3D vision and checks Park-Lock assembly with In-Sight 2800 edge learning systems.
Other vendors with visual inspection deployments
These companies sit in other categories of our list but have visual inspection deployments in the tracker: OMRON (2) · FANUC (1) · Siemens (1).
Questions about machine vision companies
What is machine vision?
Machine vision is the use of cameras, lighting, and image-processing software to inspect, measure, identify, or guide automatically in industrial settings. It turns images into decisions or control signals, such as pass/fail or a part position.
Which machine vision companies have named customers?
Our deployments tracker lists 19 visual inspection deployments for 8 of the 10 companies on this page, each with a named customer and a source: MVTec Software (5), Eigen Innovations (3), Instrumental (3), SICK (3), Cognex (2), Basler (1), Elementary (1), KEYENCE (1). 16 of the 19 are in production; the rest are pilots or announcements.
Who owns the machine vision companies on this list?
For the 3 we have profiled: Instrumental: Private; Teledyne DALSA: Part of Teledyne (NYSE: TDY); UnitX: Private. Each profile gives the source for its ownership and funding.
How is this list made?
Each row is written from the company's own website and dated. Deployment counts come from our tracker, where every entry needs a named customer and a source that loads. Being listed is not an endorsement, and nobody pays to be listed or ranked. The list is in alphabetical order.
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