AIA releases latest 2016 Global Vision Standards Update

July 2016’s Global Vision Standards Update from the AIA gives a look into the latest news surrounding machine vision standards and the products that incorporate them.

Bob McCurrach, AIA Director, Standards Development first provided an update on the Fall International Vision Standards meeting, which will take place on October 10, 2016 in Liège, Belgium. The IVSM, which is hosted by Euresys, will be held in conjunction with a PlugFest for those in need of completing their compliance process.

McCurrach also took a look a look ahead at VISION 2016 in Stuttgart, which will be held November 8-10. At the industry’s largest show, the G3 will coordinate a 50-minute standards presentation covering all the standards from the G3 association, which will provide attendees the opportunity to see all the standard chairs and ask any questions they may have. Additionally, the AIA will host a PlugFest the day after the show on November 11 from 9 AM to 3 PM, which will include testing for GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, GenICam and CoaXPress.

From there, he provided some insight on the new standard being developed by VDMA Machine Vision and the OPC Foundation. Through the G3 Future Standards Forum, VDMA lead the “G3 Embedded Vision Study Group,” which looked at embedded vision applications to see whether there were any opportunities for standardization. The outcome identified 3 standardization candidates (SC):

• SC1: Interface Sensor Board to Processing Units/SoCs
• SC2: Software API
• SC3: Interface Smart Cameras/Vision System to Process Environment

SC1 is open for consideration and SC2 can generally be handled by an extension to the GenICam standard to cover the increased complexity of data formats and device parameterization. For SC3, however, the group identified a strong affinity with the OPC-Unified Architecture (OPC UA) standard, which is an industrial machine-to-machine communication protocol for interoperability on the factory floor and looks to be a key player in Industry 4.0, an umbrella structure for the future smart factory, according to the AIA. So recently at the AUTOMATICA tradeshow, VDMA MV and the OPC Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding to prepare an OPC UA Machine Vision Companion Specification, the goal of which is to enable camera and vision systems to be easily and securely connected to controllers and into the IT world. For more information please contact Anne Wendel of VDMA MV.

The newsletter then provided relevant news and updates for the USB3 Vision, Camera Link, Camera Link HS, and GigE Vision Standards. To read these updates, and to access the newsletter, click here.

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