Editing Machine vision (section)

==Market==

As recently as 2006, one industry consultant reported that MV represented a $1.5 billion market in North America.<ref name=Hapgood46>{{cite journal|journal=CIO|page=46|title=Factories of the Future|author=Hapgood, Fred|volume=20|issue=6|date=December 15, 2006 – January 1, 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAkAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43|issn=0894-9301|access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> However, the editor-in-chief of an MV trade magazine asserted that "machine vision is not an industry per se" but rather "the integration of technologies and products that provide services or applications that benefit true industries such as automotive or consumer goods manufacturing, agriculture, and defense."<ref name="Holton" />