Our innovation process

We develop extraordinary ideas without ignoring the realities of the markets. Basler inspires with targeted technological innovations that are always closely orientated to customer needs.

innovation rocket

Targeted to market-ready innovation

We use the rocket to visualize the four "maturity levels" of our innovation projects. This fast and efficient process from idea to market maturity helps us to be more innovative and faster than the competition.

Systematic innovation

Ideation: Identify relevant customer problems and technology trends 

  • We maintain close contact with markets and customers to identify unsolved market problems and unrecognised business areas. 

  • We find and analyze innovation ideas together with our internal experts. 

Define innovation

Design: Work-out selected ideas and prepare innovation project  

  • We asses the customer problems and needs more closely.

  • Solution ideas are designed more accurately and their realization as innovation project is planned (budget, team, time).

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Validation: Validate solutions iteratively and customer-centric 

  • We give innovators and their ideas enough time, budget and safe space to develop and flourish.

  • Together with customers, we test our ideas with prototypes and validate our hypotheses. We develop the solution idea further based on the respective customer applications and the feedback received. 

Brand Value Module Innovation Methods Scale Up

Scale Up: Realization and market launch

  • We can choose from a number of paths: transfer to our business units, continue the project within Innovation or create a spin-off.

  • In partnership with other teams of the company  we prepare the market launch.

The goal of our innovation process

After successful validation, an innovation project is integrated into our standard portfolio or continued as a spin-off and made available to the machine vision market. Thanks to the products and other results that have been generated from the innovation process, Basler is a leading provider of machine vision solutions.

Our innovation strategy

Research & development

We explore, research and deliver technology that is new to Basler. We work closely with universities and researchers from other companies.

Technology & market trends

We monitor technology and market trends. In short projects, we have small teams evaluate the trends and develop ideas further.

Customer view

We combine ideas with real customer problems. Basler employees receive 20 % of their working time for the development of their innovative product ideas.

Prototypes

Promising innovations are turned into prototypes. Here we work closely with our customers and strive for a successful market launch.

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