Xiris celebrated its 30th anniversary as of September 2019. The business was initially set up to commercialize the budding technology of machine vision, where cameras are used to acquire images of manufactured goods and send them to computers for processing. Earlier when the company started, most manufacturers were highly skeptical of the success of using cameras to measure the size or shape of their manufactured goods. Now it is a well-accepted technology, but it has been a long journey for Xiris and other similar companies to establish their market and business.
Over the years, Xiris has developed inspection systems for the automotive, semiconductor, electronics, pharmaceutical, steel, plastics, compact disc and printing industries. Now Xiris focuses on supplying progressive fabricators with camera systems for inspection and monitoring welding processes.