5 Criteria to Pick the Right Partner for Your Imaging Needs

In today's rapidly evolving world of imaging technology, selecting the right partner for your imaging needs is crucial. Whether you're integrating vision into your systems for the first time or you're a seasoned expert, finding a partner who understands your needs, provides comprehensive services, and shortens your time to market is essential.

Here are five criteria to consider when choosing the right partner for your imaging needs.

To get you started and shorten the time to market, your partner should offer hardware and software development kits, evaluation kits, and solution stacks. These resources enable you to quickly achieve proof of concept and build prototypes. Make sure you also get access to pre-series models so you can benefit from the latest technologies before your competitors even know about them.

Your imaging partner should offer a complete range of hardware solutions, from image sensors and optics to microcontrollers, memory, FPGAs, and Image Signal Processors (ISPs). This ensures that you get all the necessary components for a state-of-the-art imaging system instead of having to deal with multiple vendors to get all your components in time, in quality, and at a competitive price.

If your partner can provide Vision-AI acceleration platforms including high-performance software frameworks, SoCs (System on Chip), and SoMs (System on Module), and adequate industrial-grade PCs on top – even better.

A trustworthy partner should provide consulting and technical design-in support to help you focus on your core expertise.

At the very beginning of the development of your imaging system, expert advice on selecting the right components will make sure you meet your requirements in the most efficient manner.

Throughout the development, your partner should provide you with technical design-in support to avoid delays and ensure a first-time-right design. If Imaging is not your core business, consider outsourcing part or all of your system development to your partner’s experts.

Such a service portfolio ensures your project is an end-to-end success.

Local support is crucial for the smooth execution of your project.

Your partner should be capable of providing services across all regions where your organization operates, close to both your research and development team and your manufacturing facilities. This facilitates prompt assistance, minimising issues related to time differences and language barriers.

Does your business need short delivery times, small lot sizes, flexible shipment dates, frame orders, or long payment terms? Have you ever asked a major manufacturer for any of these? This is where your partner should change the game for you. They should supply you with stocked items quickly and offer you individual logistics solutions and payment terms that fit your needs.

This level of support ensures that you are never left stranded when you need help.

At Macnica ATD Europe, we have been the preferred partner of imaging innovators since 1990. Our long-standing partnership with world-leading manufacturers like Sony provides you with the technology edge.

A comprehensive product portfolio and our global expert support turn your imaging project into reality – faster and smarter. And once your product is on the market, our purchasing and fulfilment teams ensure you can manufacture in time, in quality, and in budget.