Whether in manufacturing, logistics, or beyond, businesses around the globe today must find ways to keep pace with customer demands. Industrial automation technologies play an increasingly important role in helping companies meet these goals, but as needs evolve and expand, the pressure of speeding up processes is on. Speeding up production lines, however, requires more than just faster cameras, it requires innovations in machine vision lighting, which is necessary to acquire high-quality images. This presentation highlights the fundamental role that lighting plays in machine vision system while looking at some of today’s challenging high-speed machine vision applications today, including packaging inspection, and food and beverage inspection, and how lighting designs have adapted to help bring these high-speed applications to life.