In 2013, the global industry environment will likely remain similar to the one encountered in 2012: continued growth in certain geographic regions (e.g. China, South America) and certain applications (e.g. automotive, tablet PC) contrasted with wait-and-see attitude in others particularly in Western Europe.
For VIT, 2013 will be the most exciting year over the last decade. As VIT is approaching its 20-year anniversary, we will be introducing the results of over 20 M$ of research over the last 3 years. Our 50 highly experienced multi-disciplinary PhD led engineering team encompass expertise in optics, mathematics, image acquisition, electronics, hardware and several software disciplines. VIT is exclusively dedicated to SMT optical inspection.
This market offers significant growth potential with increasing numbers of customers purchasing both SPI and AOI for their production lines. As it matures a trend towards bipolarization is emerging: technical solution providers on the one hand and entry level solutions on the other. VIT continues to pursue a path of technical differentiation providing reliable and repeatable production solutions.
