Xiris marks 30 years in business

Burlington, Ont.-based Xiris Automation Inc. is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1989 by Cameron Serles, the business was initially set up to commercialize the budding technology of machine vision, in which cameras are used to acquire images of manufactured goods and send them to computers for processing.

Over the years the company has developed inspection systems for the automotive, semiconductor, electronics, and steel industries. It currently focuses on supplying camera systems for inspecting and monitoring welding processes.