Founded in 1958, the privately owned Vision Engineering Ltd. has become one of the world's most innovative and dynamic microscope manufacturers, employing many hundreds of people worldwide, specialising in Eyepieceless and Expanded Pupil stereo microscopes and non-contact measurement systems for both industrial and life science markets.
Vision Engineering holds world patents for techniques, which maximize the ergonomic performance of a range of mono and stereo optical microscopes.

Hawk and Kestrel are optical non-contact 2 and 3 axis measuring systems. The Mantis viewing system, Lynx eyepieceless stereo microscope and Alpha expanded pupil eyepiece microscope are all used for stereo inspection tasks in industry and laboratories.