Viscom

The Viscom AG is a German company domiciled in Hanover. As supplier of high quality inspection systems for automatic optical inspection (AOI) and X-ray inspection (AXI), the company ranks among the leading suppliers worldwide in the electronics assembly inspection sector and is European market leader. Viscom inspection systems are used in nearly all industrial sectors – from automotive electronics to aeronautics and aerospace, as well as industrial electronics and in the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries.
Viscom, a pioneering company in industrial image processing, was founded in 1984 by Dr. Martin Heuser and Volker Pape. At its start, Viscom developed software for industrial image processing. After relocating to its current location in Hanover-Badenstedt in 1992, serial production of inspection systems for PCB assembly began. In addition to automatic optical inspection, 1995 saw the introduction of microfocus X-ray inspection and the first system worldwide to combine inspection under incident light and X-ray, establishing another main pillar for Viscom.
1998 brought the founding of branches in the USA and Singapore as well as creation of a worldwide network of sales representatives. With microsystem inspection, a further business sector was secured in 2001.
In the same year, Viscom changed its corporate form to a German stock corporation (AG) before its initial listing on the stock market in May 2006. Since August 2007, Viscom has also offered systems for semiconductor inspection and thus opened up new market, customer and growth areas in a rapidly booming sector. A year later, an optical inspection system for solar cell inspection was introduced.