North American Machine Vision Market Grows 15 Percent to Record High in 2014
ANN ARBOR, MI — North American sales of machine vision components and systems grew 15 percent to $2.3 billion in 2014, its highest annual total on record, according to new statistics issued by AIA.
Total machine vision sales include sales of machine vision systems and components. The machine vision systems category saw growth of 16 percent to $2 billion in 2014. Within machine vision systems, sales of smart cameras expanded by 28 percent to $301 million, while application specific machine vision systems increased 14 percent to $1.7 billion.