Domino Printing Sciences (Domino) has today announced its acquisition of Lake Image Systems, a market-leading producer of automated, vision-based inspection systems, for quality control and data verification.
The acquisition comes as part of Domino’s ongoing commitment to ‘Do more’ to deliver best-in-class customer experience through products, services, and expertise, that help customers improve production efficiency and cut manufacturing waste. The company recognises that with the growth of Industry 4.0, intelligent inspection and validation have become increasingly important to global customers within both digital printing, and coding and marking applications.
The acquisition will bring proven solutions into the Domino portfolio and provides customers with the opportunity to benefit from Lake Image Systems’ industry-leading expertise and create production lines with greater intelligence and product accuracy.
Lake Image Systems’ product range includes the high-tech camera and lighting applications, and industry-leading image data management software, which combine to produce sophisticated, intelligent vision systems for quality control and data verification purposes. By integrating vision systems into existing production processes, customers can benefit from real-time monitoring of print throughput, allowing issues with the print quality and data accuracy to be identified and rectified as they emerge.
Prior to the acquisition, Domino and Lake Image Systems worked together for more than 20 years, on projects to supply vision solutions for data verification to Domino’s commercial and digital printing customers.
Robert Pulford, CEO at Domino said, “Lake Image Systems’ strength in the inspection solutions market and expertise in camera-based print quality and variable data verification solutions will further expand our coding and marking hardware and software portfolio and enhance our ability to deliver high-performance, integrated coding solutions. Lake Image’s products will enable our customers to utilise integrated products and services, including vision systems, through innovative hardware and software that allows them to achieve increased production efficiency, reduced manufacturing waste, and grow smart, sustainable manufacturing operations.”
Domino has enjoyed a successful relationship with Lake Image for over 20 years,” says Ben Rock, Strategic Business Development Director at Domino. “Going forward Lake Image Systems will be integrated into Domino’s Strategic Business Development unit, to create scalable, fully-integrated solutions for customers looking to explore vision control alongside coding and marking and digital printing solutions.”
Looking to the future of manufacturing, Domino recognises the importance of integration and connectivity when implementing solutions for smart, sustainable production lines. Domino’s latest range of Industry 4.0-ready printers, equipped with Domino Cloud functionality, was launched to provide customers with options for remote monitoring as part of an advanced services suite.