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Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of products that incorporate sophisticated machine vision technology that gives them the ability to “see.” Cognex products include barcode readers, machine vision sensors, and machine vision systems that are used in factories, warehouses, and distribution centers around the world to guide, gauge, inspect, identify, and assure the quality of items during the manufacturing and distribution process. Cognex is the world’s leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 1 million vision-based products, representing over $4 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company’s founding in 1981. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, USA, Cognex has regional offices and distributors located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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ABB Robotics Selects Cognex Vision Sensors for High-speed Robot Guidance
POSTED 03/18/2002
NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2002--Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ - CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, announced today that ABB Robotics North America, one of the world's largest suppliers of industrial robots for factory automation, has selected Cognex In-Sight™ vision sensors to guide their high-speed 'pick and place' FlexPicker™ robots.
ABB's Consumer Industries Group in Westminster, CO, will integrate In-Sight vision sensors into the FlexPicker robots, which are designed for light industrial applications such as food and pharmaceutical packaging. The In-Sight sensors, equipped with PatFind(R) geometric pattern recognition software, will enable the robots to pick randomly oriented objects on a moving conveyor or turntable and place them into wrappers and cartons at a rate of more than 150 objects per minute.
In-Sight vision sensors are low-cost, high-performance, on-line inspection devices that are used to automatically measure parts, verify the correct assembly of products, identify parts, and guide production equipment. The In-Sight product family offers a broad range of vision sensors. Standard features include built-in Ethernet communications, a full library of proven Cognex vision tools, and a spreadsheet interface for fast, easy set-up.
ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering their environmental impact. ABB has 160,000 employees in more than 100 countries.
Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision systems, or computers that can 'see.' Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 150,000 machine vision systems, representing over $1 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Cognex's Modular Vision Systems Division, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, specializes in machine vision systems which are used for automating the manufacture of a wide range of discrete items and for assuring their quality. Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquartered in Alameda, California, specializes in machine vision systems which are used for inspecting the surfaces of products manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, and plastics. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Visit Cognex on-line at http://www.cognex.com.
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