Zebra Technologies
Acquires Matrox Imaging

Accelerate your speed to market with our expanding machine vision suite

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We’re excited to announce our acquisition of Matrox Imaging, further accelerating our strategy to help our customers advance their digital decisioning capabilities through visibility and automation. This compelling combination of talent and technology will meet the broader and more complex quality, yield, compliance and throughput challenges our industrial customers are facing.

Tom Bianculli
Chief Technology Officer, Zebra Technologies

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The combination of Matrox Imaging’s technical expertise with the global footprint of Zebra Technologies presents an opportunity to accelerate our long-term strategic plan. With its complementary machine vision and fixed industrial scanning portfolio, Zebra Technologies is an excellent home for Matrox Imaging.

Lorne Trottier
President and Co-Founder, Matrox

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Reduce Costs, Accelerate Production and Improve Quality

Detection, inspection and measurement for every manufacturing use case –
from simple to highly complex

With the ever-increasing needs of the on-demand economy, you’re under intense pressure to deliver quality products to market faster, while coping with severe supply and skilled worker shortages. We understand. That’s why we’ve unified fixed industrial scanning and machine vision technologies to support every need you face. For the first time, solve your workflow challenges – no matter how complex — with one portfolio from one partner.

Our acquisition of Matrox Imaging adds advanced hardware-agnostic cameras and interoperable software capabilities, broadening our machine vision portfolio to solve highly complex challenges for our customers.

We introduced our portfolio of smart cameras and powerful Aurora software to help businesses easily unify industrial scanning and “light” machine vision use cases.

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This acquisition added robust machine vision application and configuration libraries, along with deep learning technology, so users can easily produce a range of applications, no matter their experience level.

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See how our expanded, integrated hardware and software portfolio gives you the tools and technologies to reduce costs and accomplish more.

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Expanding Automation

Expanding Automation to
Help Customers Thrive in the
On-Demand Economy

  • More industrial use cases from simple to complex
  • Ease of integration and deployment
  • Platform-independent hardware and software compatible with 3rd-party products and systems
  • Greater visibility into the status, dimension and condition of assets
  • Advanced sensing technologies and visual analytics
  • Added capabilities from product detection to measurement to robot guidance

Advancing our Partner-Centric,
Channel-First Commitment

  • More robust portfolio of software and modular hardware products
  • Added value to our partners including ISVs, IHVs and OEM channels — allowing for deeper penetration into existing and new customer accounts
  • Greater opportunities for Zebra and Matrox Imaging specialized industrial automation partners
Advancing our Partner-centric

Frequently Asked Questions

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Matrox Imaging enables Zebra to accelerate our Enterprise Asset Intelligence (EAI) vision. Our long-standing leadership in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) industry, our legacy in barcode and RFID-based data capture and our innovative indoor location tracking capabilities are enhanced through this acquisition by adding more advanced machine vision hardware, software and services, including 3D sensing and frame grabbers.

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Matrox Imaging, a proven developer of advanced machine vision components and systems, will add interoperable software, software development kits (SDKs), hardware-agnostic smart cameras, vision controllers, input/output (I/O) cards and frame grabbers that are used to inspect, assess and record data from industrial vision systems used in factory automation, electronics, healthcare, semiconductors and more.

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The acquisition of Matrox Imaging complements Zebra’s recently launched, machine-vision, smart cameras, fixed industrial scanners and Zebra Aurora™ software.

Additionally, this acquisition further supports our foundational acquisition of Adaptive Vision’s machine learning and deep learning capabilities, strengthening Zebra’s intelligent automation and analytics capabilities in the software-driven areas of machine vision and computer vision.

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Matrox Imaging adds sophisticated machine vision to Zebra’s existing portfolio of fixed industrial scanning solutions. Together, they solve almost any workflow challenge—no matter how simple or complex the application. Having one source for all automation hardware and software streamlines every step for customers, resulting in four times faster deployment. Now, customers can automate with greater confidence, knowing they’re backed by a proven leader continually innovating and investing in their future automation needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Matrox Imaging enables Zebra to accelerate our Enterprise Asset Intelligence (EAI) vision. Our long-standing leadership in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) industry, our legacy in barcode and RFID-based data capture and our innovative indoor location tracking capabilities are enhanced through this acquisition by adding more advanced machine vision hardware, software and services, including 3D sensing and frame grabbers.

Matrox Imaging, a proven developer of advanced machine vision components and systems, will add interoperable software, software development kits (SDKs), hardware-agnostic smart cameras, vision controllers, input/output (I/O) cards and frame grabbers that are used to inspect, assess and record data from industrial vision systems used in factory automation, electronics, healthcare, semiconductors and more.

The acquisition of Matrox Imaging complements Zebra’s recently launched, machine-vision, smart cameras, fixed industrial scanners and Zebra Aurora™ software.

Additionally, this acquisition further supports our foundational acquisition of Adaptive Vision’s machine learning and deep learning capabilities, strengthening Zebra’s intelligent automation and analytics capabilities in the software-driven areas of machine vision and computer vision.

Matrox Imaging adds sophisticated machine vision to Zebra’s existing portfolio of fixed industrial scanning solutions. Together, they solve almost any workflow challenge—no matter how simple or complex the application. Having one source for all automation hardware and software streamlines every step for customers, resulting in four times faster deployment. Now, customers can automate with greater confidence, knowing they’re backed by a proven leader continually innovating and investing in their future automation needs.

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Additional Resources

Machine Vision Technologies

See How Matrox Imaging is Innovating Complex Machine Vision Technologies

Matrox Imaging is pioneering visioning with deep learning to support your complex machine vision automation challenges with software, systems and components.

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Machine Vision Portfolio

Discover Zebra's Unified Industrial Scanning and Machine Vision Portfolio

Zebra’s Fixed Industrial Scanning and Machine Vision solutions are easy to set up, deploy and run to help you maximize your performance and exceed your potential.

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