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EDITORIAL
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Regional Director (Home Counties & South East)
Mark West Tel: 020 8467 3613 A JOKER IN THE PACK, BUT
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Regional Sales Manager (Midlands) STILL A LOSING HAND
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Regional Sales Manager (North of England, Scotland & Wales) ust when we’d all breathed a collective sigh of relief that Brexit
Jan Anderson Tel: 01978 314730 was finally behind us and we could get on with the day jobs, the
jan.anderson@itmagazine.uk.com posturing has started up again. First battleground for the trade
Jnegotiations, it seems, will be fishing, with Europe insisting
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sacrificed in any negotiations.
Overseas What this early tit for tat signals to me is that it’s going to pretty
George Bennett MA Tel: + 44 161 374 5615 stormy sailing for the next 10 months, with everything to play for
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but nobody prepared to give any ground. France in partiuclar has
Special Projects warned the UK to expect a bruising battle. Both sides seem to feel
Steve Brotherton Tel: 01625 268585 they’re holding the winning hand – the one that says “they’ve got
steve@itmagazine.uk.com more to lose that we have.” But surely these are both losing hands if
it means no eventual trade deal is struck. Europe is by far our biggest
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of what we did with the rest of the world put together.
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Let’s look at some of the big areas in that ‘rest of the world’
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UK to France, Germany and the Netherlands.
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The UK has begun negotiating trade deals, and to date has 20
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deals in place covering 50 countries or territories. If that sounds
As a controlled circulation journal, Industrial Technology is sent free encouraging, consider that they are with countries such as Kosovo,
of charge to individuals in the UK who meet the terms and Tunisia, Lebanon, the Pacific Islands and the Faroe Islands, and
conditions of the publishers. To apply for free regular copies, write to represent just 8% of total UK trade. There’s a long way to go before those
the Circulation Department. To those not meeting the terms and
sorts of trade deals make any sort of dent on what we stand to lose from
conditions, the magazine is available on UK subscription at a cost of
Europe.
£90 per year (10 issues). Single copies are £9. Overseas
subscriptions (airmail) are as follows: Rest of Europe including Eire So my thought is this. Most definitely there are national interests in
£140 (single copies £14); USA $220 (single $22); Rest of the Europe just as there are in the UK, and perhaps the posturing is just part of
World £170 (single copies £17).
the game. But there are no winners if a trade deal is not struck. Perhaps
once we realise that we all have far too much to lose, we can get down
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to the serious work of agreeing what we all so desperately need.
Mark Simms
Industrial Editor
Technology

2020 UKIVA MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED

he 2020 UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and facets of machine vision. In 2020 we plan to take this a Chris Valdes, UKIVA event organiser, said: “Many
Exhibition will take place on 14 May 2020 at stage further by opening the afternoon session with a visitors in previous years have commented on how much
the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. With year discussion forum, where a panel of leading experts will they like the format of this event. The exhibition features
Ton year growth since its inception in 2017, the answer questions about any aspect of machine vision.” a world-class cross section of manufacturers, vision
event is rapidly becoming a fixture in the industry’s The previous events have attracted many who were component and system distributors and systems
calendar. While the event will follow a similar format to keen to explore the latest developments in vision in integrators. With the conference theatres located around
previous years, with a comprehensive program of addition to large numbers of people who wanted to learn the exhibition there is plenty of opportunity both to see
technical seminars supported by an exhibition from more about the fundamentals of vision technology. The some of the latest vision products and to network with
leading companies in the industry, a new panel Conference will cover the key issues such as: deep industry experts.”
discussion session is being included for the first time. learning and embedded vision, vision and robotics, 3D Details of the 2020 Conference program as well as
UKIVA chairman Allan Anderson explained: “This ision, optics and illumination, vision Innovation, camera information about the panel discussion forum and the
event has always been characterised by providing a technology and systems and applications, as well as exhibition will be published on the conference website at
platform where visitors can learn about many different understanding vision technology. www.machinevisionconference.co.uk.

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