Building Vision for BusinessMVTec Software GmbH is a leading international supplier of software tools for machine vision used in all demanding areas of imaging. MVTec's innovative work is driven by a commitment to be the number one supplier for sophisticated technologies in machine vision. MVTec was founded in November 1996 as a spin-off of the Technische Universität München (Munich University of Technology). The company is engaged in sponsoring various activities in universities, thus participating in the challenging process of understanding how machines can be taught to see. MVTec is the developer and vendor of the general purpose machine vision software HALCON. This tool, optimized for the needs of OEMs and system integrators, enables engineers to set up their own solutions for a specific machine vision task. HALCON is the first and only software library with an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for machine vision.Another powerful product of MVTec is ActivVisionTools. This family of tools allows OEMs and system integrators to develop powerful machine vision applications quickly and easily without the need of writing code.