German camera-maker Basler
published their third quarter results today, the 6th, and they look
surprisingly good. Well they surprised me. Previous quarters haven’t look too
rosy, and with all the talk of a downturn in Europe, plus comments from Cognex
to the effect that Q3 is never great, I was expecting a dip in both revenues
and income.
To my surprise, I was wrong. (Well it had to happen sometime
I suppose.) Comparing the first nine months of 2012 with the same period in ’11,
things don’t look so great. Revenue was up just 1% while income (profit, to my
British readers,) was down 15% to €14m. But compare Q3 and you see a very
different picture with both revenue and income up 26% to €16.6m and €2.4m
respectively.
What are we to make of this, dear reader?
Well there are some new products – the runner, pilot and
ace all debuted relatively recently – but also, Basler has a strong and growing
presence in the traffic marketplace. Basler then, seem to be building momentum,
and I think this tells us that machine vision continues to be a technology whose
benefits outweigh costs. Thus, even when belts need to be tightened, advanced
cameras are still in demand.
Good news for all of us I think.
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1 comment:
It certainly is ! Although many people have had their fingers burnt by the early days of vision systems, its turned around in the last few years.
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