New HALCON Training Partner in Southern Germany

The Imaging Source Europe GmbH, long-standing partner of MVTec Software GmbH, extends the support and distribution activities in Southern Germany and becomes "MVTec Certified Training Partner. "

MVTec's distributor The Imaging Source strengthens the support and distribution activities of the machine vision software HALCON with their new sales office in Gernlinden near Munich, Germany. The Imaging Source is now part of the MVTec "Certified Training Partner" program, qualifying the employees to pass on their broad knowledge about the software library HALCON from MVTec to their customers. To receive this certification, selected employees of The Imaging Source have participated in comprehensive trainings by MVTec, thus enabling them to even better support HALCON customers in developing their applications. The Imaging Source offers trainings and seminars for HALCON starting now.

"HALCON is the market leader among machine vision libraries regarding performance, flexibility, and comprehensiveness of the tools," states Patrick Gailer, business development manager at The Imaging Source. "HALCON fits well with our camera portfolio to offer customers from all machine vision markets an automated solution. Our support and our trainings help customers to choose exactly the right tool from HALCON's variety in order to realize his task most suitably and quickly."

Gerhard Wagner, MVTec's head of sales, says: "We are very pleased that our long-standing distribution partner The Imaging Source increases the significance for MVTec with the local sales office in Southern Germany and above that further strengthens the portfolio of HALCON services as certified training partner."

About The Imaging Source
The Imaging Source is a multi-national enterprise with branches in the US, Taiwan and Germany. They have been manufacturing imaging products for scientific, industrial and medical applications for more than twenty years. The industrial cameras, converters and frame grabbers manufactured by The Imaging Source are highly robust and are designed to run for years with no maintenance. The Imaging Source products are typically deployed in factory automation, quality inspection, medical systems, microscopy systems, life science projects and as of 2007 amateur astronomy. All imaging products manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with Microsoft Windows drivers, an SDK and powerful software for device control, display and saving of images.

About MVTec
MVTec is a leading manufacturer of standard software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in all demanding areas of imaging: Semi-conductor industry, web inspection, quality control and inspection applications in general, medicine, 3D vision, and surveillance. MVTec has more than 30 established distributors, located throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, and Asia (China, Japan, Korea, India et al.). In addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA), to better attend the North American market since 2007.

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