VITRONIC inside - Newsletter
Content issue spring 2005
(Issue 1/2005, April 2005)
1. Identification and Logistics News
4. Exhibition preview: Interpack - KOMCOM South - ITS Europe
5. Exhibition review: KOMCOM North in Hanover
1. Identification and Logistics News
Canpar, a leading Canadian parcel delivery company, has chosen VITRONIC to provide the package identification technology for their new sorting facility in Toronto, Ontario. A total of four tunnels with six-sided scanning capability will also include certified scales and dimensioners as well as five video coding terminals to process more than 20,000 packages per hour. The system, which is being integrated by Sandvik Sorting Systems, will be operational in the second quarter of 2006. Furthermore VITRONIC received the order to supply a barcode identification system as well as two video coding stations to the UK based express carrier Aspray Transport Ltd. Parcels, which up until now were sorted manually, will be identified automatically by a four-sided reading system at a conveying speed of 2 m/s (394 fpm). The identification technology was put into operation early 2005 and currently processes up to 4,000 parcels per hour.
Danish Post makes their parcel handling more efficient
The new hub of the Danish Post in Taulov was equipped with identification technology from VITRONIC. Four identification stations for five-sided parcel identification and volume measurement are installed at two tilt-tray sorters supplied by FKI Logistex Crisplant a/s. Due to a very high resolution at conveying speeds of 1,85 m/s (364 fpm), the systems achieve excellent read rates of barcodes, 2D-codes and machine and handwritten addresses. If an address is not automatically captured, the information will be completed at one of the ten video coding stations. The four VIPAC systems are able to identify 45,000 parcels per hour.
Another major order for a large amount of auto focus cameras VICAMssi was placed in the USA. These cameras will be integrated into multi-sided scanning tunnels by our co-operation partner Sick Auto Ident.
2. Quality Inspection News
3-d inspection sensor
VITRONIC systems inspect brazing seams at AUDI
The car manufacturer AUDI produces the A6 model in Neckarsulm. In the production line of undercarriages, galvanized, high-alloy and stainless steel metal components are brazed together. In order to verify that the joining process is carried out with one hundred percent accuracy, AUDI has installed the 3-D seam inspection system VIROwsi from VITRONIC. The sensor is mounted to a robot and scans the seams three dimensionally. During the automated inspection process, VIROwsi detects various faults on the undercarriage, like missing seams, holes, surface pores and surface voids and also judges fault criteria.
3. Traffic Technology News
VITRONIC's PoliScan system helps to support the fight against crime
The system PoliScansurveillance reads, identifies and automatically evaluates international license plates in idle and free flow traffic. Read rates greater than 95 percent literally make the field of applications "boundless".
Background: A new legislative decree, enacted in December 2004, allow Hesse Police to use automated license plate identification systems in free-flow traffic. Therefore, Hesse Police are the first authorities in Germany able to identify license plates electronically and to compare them with a database of wanted vehicles and stolen license plates. Therefore, when the identified license plate of a passing vehicle matches with one in the database, an alarm is transmitted immediately to the police authorities. (Source: press release of the Minister-President's Office in Hesse. 15 Dec. 2004)
4. Exhibition Preview: interpack - KOMCOM South - ITS Europe
Interpack, Düsseldorf (21.-27. April 2005)
The "interpack" is starting on April, 21. At our booth, no. A/09 in hall 6, we will present a special 360° machine vision sensor which reads and verifies alphanumeric product codes on the entire circumference of the caps of medicine bottles. The OCR-system VICODE reads the characters on the bottles' side with only one camera - independent of the bottles' rotation. This identification solution minimizes cost and space requirements. Other possible applications of this sensor - such as an all around optical inspection of vials or ampoules - bring quality inspection tasks in the medical technology industry to a new level.
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We are looking forward to your visit.
More information about interpack: 
KOMCOM South, Karlsruhe (10 - 12 May 2005)
I In hall 1 booth number A/03, we will show our latest developments in the field of digital traffic technology and present the extended PoliScan product range:
- PoliScanspeed - the mobile traffic supervision solution for digital speed detection and recording
- PoliScansurveillance - provides the automatic vehicle license plate identification in free flow traffic
- PoliScandigital - evaluates digital images of speeding and red-light offences (instead of wet film)
We are looking forward to your visit.
More information about KOMCOM Süd: 
ITS Europe, Hanover (1 - 3 June 2005)
At ITS, the European Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services, we will be located in hall 14, booth no. B 16. There, we will present our spectrum of Toll Enforcement technologies, centered around TollChecker, VITRONIC's automatic toll enforcement system used in Germany's nation-wide heavy truck tolling scheme.
Friedrich Neuhaus, our Technical Sales Manager Traffic Technology, will present an interesting lecture about:
"Future-safe Enforcement of City-Tolling Schemes".
Please attend the technical session in the Congress Center on Thursday, 2 June at 4:00 p.m. We are looking forward to your visit.
More information about ITS Europe: 
5. Exhibition Review
KOMCOM North in Hanover, Germany
This year, our exhibition events began with the KOMCOM North, 22 - 24 February, in Hanover. Many interested visitors from local, regional and federal authorities, attended and discovered our versatile PoliScan product range: PoliScanspeed for digital speed detection and recording and PoliScansurveillance for automatic license plate identification in free flow traffic.
The PoliScan system for mobile use at out booth in Hanover
6. Dr. Stein receives the 2005 "AIA-Achievement Award"
Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stein received the 2005 AIA Achievement-Award in February and is the first German to ever receive this honor. The award, which was presented to Stein by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA) at the annual AIA Business Conference in Orlando, Florida, honors industry leaders for outstanding contributions in promoting market acceptance of industrial and/or scientific imaging.
Jeffrey A. Burnstein, Executive Director of AIA said: "since founding VITRONIC twenty years ago, he has built a tremendous track record of success and innovation."
Dr. Stein is the founder of VITRONIC, a high-performance industrial machine vision company headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, with a sister company located in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Stein received his PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt and is Vice President of the VDMA Robot and Automation Association.
"VITRONIC looks back to an amazing success story full of innovations and a sound and continuous growth", AIA-president John Stack stated. With complex, international projects, Dr. Stein has proven that it is possible for a medium-sized company to realize complex and internationally reputable projects in time and on a solid financial basis. One such example is the installation of 300 technologically advanced TollChecker toll control units on German motorways.
Dr. Stein (left) receives the 2005 Achievement-Award from AIA Executive Director, Jeff Burnstein (right)
7. A final note
New commercial agency in Korea
K As of March 2005, VITRONIC is exclusively represented by the company Daeya Co. headquartered in Seoul. Daeya, managed by 42 year old president Jae-Hoo Shim, has its core competences in the field of automation technology for the logistics industry. Mr. Shim's main activities for VITRONIC will be the commercialization of the VIPAC systems in the parcel identification sector as well as the entire PoliScan product series for traffic technology sector.
VITRONIC Ltd. has moved into a larger facility
Our sister company, VITRONIC Machine Vision Ltd., in the USA has moved into its new office. The new address is:
VITRONIC Machine Vision Ltd.
11900 Plantside Drive, Suite G
Louisville, KY 40299, U.S.A.
New phone number: +1 / 502 / 266-2699
New fax number: +1 / 502 / 266-2695
E-mail: sales_usa[at]vitronic.com
Website: www.vitronic.com
Guest lectures at the Technical University in Karlsruhe
From April this year, Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stein will offer guest lectures at the Technical University in Karlsruhe. The subject "Machine vision in the material flow" is directed to students of the institute for material handling and logistics systems. The lectures are accompanied by an excursion to the UPS hub in Frankfurt-Fechenheim as well as an excursion to the VITRONIC headquarters in Wiesbaden.