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This advent, we’ll run once more the campaign “Christmas Wish Tree” which invites Instrument Systems employees to fulfil Christmas wishes of those in need.

This September, Konica Minolta’s CEO Mr. Toshimitsu Taiko came to visit Instrument Systems’ headquarters in Munich. He was accompanied by Mr. Kiyotaka Suhara, President of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH.

CIOE provided the perfect platform for industry peers and customers to gain a deeper understanding of our business scope and metrology solutions, further enhancing our brand's influence.

On September 4, 2023 we had the honor of welcoming Kentaro Mikami, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Sensing Business Headquarters at Konica Minolta, in our Munich office.

As a leading manufacturer of high-end light measurement technology, Instrument Systems has contributed to the development and implementation of µLED display technologies for years.

After the successful conclusion of Laser World of Photonics China, which took place in Shanghai from July 11th to 13th, 2023, we wish to extend our gratitude to all the visitors who visited our booths.

Great interest in the new products at the Instrument Systems booth.

400 lighting experts from industry and R&D attended this major Asian conference and exhibition to exchange knowledge on the topic “Sensor Fusion and Smart Lighting.” For its long term support to IFAL over many years, Instrument Systems was awarded as “Distinguished Partner” of IFAL.

Part of this year’s Display Week in Los Angeles, were the annual “People’s Choice Awards”. All attendees could vote for their favorite via the exhibition app.

At the end of April, the bi-annual sales meeting of Instrument Systems with our Asian distributors took place. This time, the meeting was hosted by our new colleagues of Instrument Systems Korea in Seongnam, Korea.

Instrument Systems Korea, formerly Kimsoptec, will continue to produce and sell its own products under the name Kimsoptec Line.

Come and visit us at Touch Taiwan, taking place from April 19-21, 2023 in Taipei.

Listen to our talk in session 4 on March 15, 2023: “Characterization and Prevention of Global and Rolling Shutter Artifacts in Display Metrology”.

The German employer rating portal kununu gives its “Top Company” award to companies meeting a number of requirements. According to kununu, only around five percent of all employer profiles qualify for the seal.

In January, two exhibitions with comprehensive conference programs took place in parallel in San Francisco/CA: Photonics West und SPIE AR|VR|MR. One of the focus topics was AR/VR – especially at SPIE AR|VR|MR our LumiTop vertical set up generated a lot of interest.

Visit us at DVN in Paris from January 31 to February 1, 2023.

This year SPIE.Photonics West and SPIE.AR|VR|MR are scheduled to take place in San Francisco/CA, USA from January 28th to February 2nd. These important trade fairs for the optics and photonics industry are meeting places for experts from all over the world, who gather and exchange information on the latest technological developments and topics.

At this year’s electronica 2022 you will find us in the “Displays” exhibition area in Hall B5.418.

At this year's TAITRONICS & AIoT Taiwan, we will introduce our new LED measurement solution in cooperation with GW Instek.

Light+Building, one of the most important trade fairs for lighting and building technology worldwide, took place in Frankfurt am Main from October 2nd-6th, 2022.

SIA VISION is due to take place in Paris, France, on 19 and 20 October 2022. On this occasion, international specialists from the automotive lighting branch will be coming together for a conference with accompanying exhibition.

Visitors to our booth in Hall 8.0 H38 will be able to view large-format measuring stations for goniometric, spectroradiometric and photometric measuring tasks.

On 27 and 28 September 2022, the SID Vehicle Displays & Interfaces is scheduled to take place in Detroit/MI, USA.

Instrument Systems is looking forward to welcoming you at table top #602.

Come and visit us at Laser & Photonics Taiwan, due to take place in Taipei from 24–27 August 2022.

Dr. Tobias, Schneider, Chief Scientist at Instrument Systems, took the scientific lead as Chairman of the Technical Committee TC2-80 that created the new CIE report. The document, published as CIE 250:2022, supersedes the almost 40-year-old Technical Report CIE 063-1984.

Kimsoptec, a Korean display measurement equipment manufacturer and longtime exclusive distributor of Instrument Systems, has been acquired in order to further strengthen Instrument Systems’ market position in Korea. With this merger, Instrument Systems will have a strong local subsidiary and network through the established Kimsoptec sales channels.

After two years of waiting, people from hundreds of companies across industries and sectors were united at the B2Run Company Run in Munich in mid-July.

The ICDT (International Conference on Display Technology) is due to take place from 16 to 19 July 2022 in Fuzhou, China. Within this conference, presentations, short courses, seminars etc. relating to new display technologies will be offered.

On 20 and 21 June 2022, DVN (Driving Vision News) hosted a workshop on “Safety & Design: Challenges & Opportunities” in Rochester, USA. The 250 participants could attend a total of 23 lectures and visit exhibitions from 20 companies in the Automotive Exterior Lighting Industry.

At the edc 2022, Instrument Systems will take part with a high-professional presentation about “Luminance Dependent Uniformity in OLED Displays”.

On 20 and 21 June 2022, the DVN Workshop “Safety & Design: Challenges & Opportunities” in Rochester will bring together experts from the automotive industry who are involved in lighting and ADAS. The workshop will deal with the current challenges of combining modern design with higher safety, while following the applicable regulations.

Instrument Systems’ participation in SID Display Week, which took place in-person again from 8-13 May 2022 in San Jose/CA, USA, meant days full of successful conversations und meetings for our on-site team.

From 8 – 13 May 2022, Instrument Systems will participate in SID Display Week, taking place in-person in San Jose/CA, USA. We will be exhibiting various display measurement systems at booth #1127.

From 27- 29 April, Instrument Systems will participate in Touch Taiwan 2022.

At LASER World of Photonics, Instrument Systems will be presenting its broad IR measuring portfolio for a wide range of applications.

Get to know the latest developments and research in the field of automotive lighting! The ISAL symposium and exhibition at Darmstadt will bring together experts for networking and discussions – live!

Spectral color measurement for automotive lighting is achieved by combining our high-class CAS 140D spectroradiometer with an AMS far-field goniometer system. This meets the requirements of color measurement deviation in automotive lighting.

After almost two long years of pure virtual events, Instrument Systems was more than happy to attend SPIE Photonics West and SPIE AR|VR|MR in San Francisco, USA.

Instrument Systems started the new year 2022, launching a Japanese version of the website.

Two key trade fairs for the optics and photonics industry – SPIE.Photonics West and SPIE.AR|VR|MR – are scheduled to take place at the San Francisco Moscone Center from 22-27 January 2022.

At Photonics Spectra Conference, Karthik Iyer guided his audience with more than 900 listeners through the most important aspects of VCSEL testing.

The Laser & Photonics Taiwan exhibition will take place in person from December 15-18, 2021 in Taipei.

Cutting edge, high-definition ADB or matrix pixel headlights realize numerous light distributions. In the development process a wide range of light scenarios must therefore be adequately determined in the shortest possible time.

For this purpose, Instrument Systems developed the AMS screen imaging system.

The LpS 2021 is continuing the tradition of high-level panel discussions: The live streaming event of LpS DIGITAL will take place on December 2, 2021.

The DSCC launched a new virtual event that took place on 3 & 4 November 2021: the AR/VR Display Forum.

The event was supported by Instrument Systems as a Silver sponsor with a virtual booth featuring our AR/VR testing portfolio.

After more than one and a half years of purely digital events, we are delighted to participate again in an in-person event within Europe: productronica in Munich from 16 to 19 November 2021. This year’s focus will be on measurement solutions for displays, AR/VR, VCSEL and high-power LEDs. Visit our Booth #315 in Hall B2, where we will be awaiting you with interesting measurement setups, accompanied by related talks.

The annual exhibition C-Touch & Display Shenzhen, featuring companies across all manufacturing stages of the display industry, is due to take place from 19-21 October 2021.

Instrument Systems will be exhibiting together with our distributor Giant Testing Equipment at Booth No. 1A 12!

Professionals from across the vehicle display industry will meet at the 28th Annual Symposium & Expo of “SID Vehicle Displays & Interfaces” from September 28-29 in Detroit.

Instrument Systems exhibits together with Konica Minolta Sensing US. Visit us at Table Top #64!

During the Automotive LIDAR conference, taking place from September 21 to 23, numerous topics regarding LIDAR technology in the automotive industry will be presented and discussed.

Instrument Systems will join with a virtual booth.

Instrument Systems was represented with a virtual stand and a product video on the subject of “Advanced calibration standards from UVC to Infrared”. Both is still available on-demand!

The International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) is Korea’s biggest event for the international display industry. This year the 21st edition is due to take place at COEX, Seoul, on August 25–27. Instrument Systems will be participating at the booth of our Korean sales partner Kimsoptec.

Invisible to the human eye: special wavelengths require special testing solutions.

This year, Instrument Systems’ booth featured a preview video of our brand-new LumiTop X20, which we plan to release this fall.

Visit us at our virtual booth during Display Week, 17 -20 May, and join our lectures.

Get in touch with with us at the SIA VISION International Conference and Exhibition, 17 – 18 March 2021.

Experience our complete AR/VR and VCSEL testing portfolio at our Online-Booth in the Digital Marketplace, March 6 - 11, 2021.

In many medical areas, there is still an increasing need for UV-LED-based light sources for contactless disinfection, particularly for combatting the Corona virus.

In various applications, it still gains in importance to precisely determine the spectral properties of UV radiation sources, e.g. UVC-LEDs.

January 2021: Instrument Systems launched its new AMS Screen Imaging System. The turnkey measurement solution for automotive headlights combines camera-based imaging photometry on a projection screen with goniometric far-field measurements in the laboratory.

Instrument Systems would like to invite you to join us January 19th-22nd at the first Photonics Spectra Conference 2021 with free registration.

Instrument Systems will be presenting top themes for Electronica in virtual form.

The virtual conference gathers over 300 experts in automotive LiDAR to talk about different application fields. Instrument Systems will show its customized optical measurement solutions along the whole LiDAR value chain from November 17.

Instrument Systems GmbH Germany will present its complete measurement solutions for automotive sensors, displays and interior lighting at two up-coming virtual conferences.

Đenan Konjhodžić presents the new calibration concept for UV-LED standards. He gives a brief summary of the market trends for UV-LEDs.

Hundreds of visitors displayed a great interest in our many around-the-clock short videos and live demos on innovative measurement solutions by Instrument Systems.

For the first time, Display Week will start as a virtual event this year. From August 3rd to 7th you can explore our virtual booth. Our light measurement experts created short videos about interesting current topics, for example:

Visit us at LASER Shanghai on 03-05 July 2020 at the National Convention & Exhibition Center Shanghai! We are excited to show our high-quality solutions in light measurement on two exhibition areas which make Instrument Systems your ideal partner for various measurement applications in the area of display production testing as well as spectral measurements of LEDs und VCSELs.

Our employee Michael Gallenberger celebrates his 30th anniversary for our company. Way back when Michael started at Instrument Systems, we only had six employees which is a striking contrast compared to the roundabout 250 colleagues who are dedicated to their work today.

The new TOP 150-BLH telescopic optical probe is based on the proven TOP 200 telescopic optical probe, although it has only one aperture with a diameter of 7 mm. A direct spectral radiance measurement can be made in conjunction with a calibrated CAS 140 D spectroradiometer and the accompanying SpecWin Pro analysis software.

The unique LumiTop principle delivers highest color accuracy, also for spectrally narrow-band μLEDs and enables accurately colorcalibrated LED measurements.

Discover the opportunities of light at the Strategies of Light in San Diego! From February 11-13, 2020, Instrument Systems will be launching its new spectrometer CAS 125, presenting three innovative applications of light measurement technology.

Instrument Systems was the first company in the world to develop calibration UV-LEDs that can be traceably calibrated to radiant flux. The calibration UV-LEDs of the ACS series are available for the typically peak wavelengths of 280 nm (UVC), 305 nm (UVB) and 365 nm (UVA).

For the CAS 125 spectroradiometer, Instrument Systems decided to equip the device with a CMOS sensor. A specially developed electronic readout circuit with Recipe mode enables very low measurement times of 0.01 milliseconds.

At Photonics West 2020 Instrument Systems will be exhibiting fast, high-resolution spectrometers and new systems for the measurement of VCSELs and AR/VR displays.

Instrument Systems again supported the Lichtwoche München in 2019, which was organized for the fifth time by Pflaum-Verlag and "Licht" magazine.

At Productronica (Booth A1.145) in Munich from 12–15 November 2019 Instrument Systems will be presenting a wide range of high-performance applications.

Light and display measurement technology seminar in Munich on 26-27 November 2019

Visit us from 23–25 September 2019 in Darmstadt at the “International Symposium on Automotive Lighting” (ISAL)! Find us at Stand 6 at the Science & Congress Center.

Instrument Systems will be exhibiting together with our distributor Konica Minolta Sensing US at Vehicle Displays in Detroit from 24–25 September 2019.

Instrument Systems will be presenting the LGS 650 goniophotometer at the LED Symposium in Bregenz from 24–26 September 2019.

The DMS series of goniometers from Instrument Systems offers numerous testing options for the electro-optical characterization of displays over the entire development and production process.

Within the well-attended I-Zone at SID Display Week 2019, Instrument Systems presented its latest prototype of the worldwide successful LumiTop series.

At Laser World of Photonics in Munich from 24 to 27 June 2019 Instrument Systems will be showcasing powerful applications for high-precision spectral radiometry in light measurement technology.

Visit Instrument Systems at SID Display Week, May 14-16th, 2019 in San Jose, CA / USA! At booth #1528, we will show our innovations in "Display Quality Control", "AR / VR Measurement" and "Display Production Testing".

The 2D imaging colorimeters of the LumiCam 2400 / 1300 series feature a precise determination of photometrical properties such as luminance and color distributions within seconds. Learn more in our new LumiCam brochure.

The 3rd International Conference on Display Technology ICDT, due to take place in Kunshan / China from 26-28 March 2019 is organized by SID (Society for Information Display) and represents a good venue for display professionals.

At the DVN Workshop in Shanghai from 24 to 25 April, Instrument Systems will be presenting solutions for meeting current challenges in light measurement in the automotive sector.

At Laser World of Photonics China, due to take place in Shanghai from 20–22 March 2019, Instrument Systems will be exhibiting proven and brand new solutions for a wide range of current applications in the areas of LED/SSL and display measurement.

Instrument Systems is on the road again: You can visit us at Photonics West and at Strategies in Light. Both trade fairs are due to be held in the USA in February.

Measurement system consisting of an integrating sphere with PTFE-coating and a highly precise spectroradiometer for fast 24/7 quality control.

At Photonics West / USA Instrument Systems presents high-resolution spectroradiometers for the characterization of laser light sources and displays.

The new LumiTop 4000 version offers an enhanced image resolution of 12 megapixels. This facilitates the detection of pixel defects and minor irregularities.