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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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Cognex Corporation Introduces Next Generation PC-based Vision System for Factory Floor Applications
POSTED 06/27/2000
NATICK, MA - Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, today introduced Checkpoint® II, a next-generation version of the company's industry-leading factory floor PC-based vision system.
Designed for high-performance, multi-camera guidance, gauging and defect inspection applications, Checkpoint II combines Cognex's proven point-and-click vision software with faster vision processing and expanded camera support. Capable of inspecting up to 11,000 parts per minute, the new system performs up to seven times faster than previous Checkpoint products. Additionally, Checkpoint II offers support for higher resolution cameras required in many of today's industrial machine vision applications.
"Checkpoint II expands our line of end user vision products even further for customers who need to add higher speed, higher accuracy vision performance to their PC-based automation systems," said Justin Testa, senior vice president of marketing for Cognex. "Cognex is the only machine vision company able to offer effective solutions for a broad spectrum of factory floor vision applications - from the simplest to the most complex."
"We selected Checkpoint II for its wide variety of inspection tools, fast processing speed, and fully customizable graphical user interface," said Mike dela Montaigne, vice president of the Machinery Division of Eisai U.S.A, Inc., a leading human healthcare company and maker of high precision automatic inspection machines for pharmaceutical products. "Checkpoint II helps provide our worldwide customers with maximum flexibility and reliable performance for their total inspection needs."
Like previous Checkpoint products, Checkpoint II features an extensive library of MMX-optimized vision software tools and a flexible Windows-based graphical programming environment. The software library includes Cognex's revolutionary PatMax® and PatInspect™ software tools for locating and inspecting parts with up to 1/40th pixel accuracy despite changes in part angle, size, or appearance. Checkpoint II can also be equipped with Cognex's VisionLinx™ software, which greatly simplifies the process of integrating Checkpoint II with Allen-Bradley factory automation products.
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Checkpoint II features a 400 MHz on-board vision processor, making it ideal for high-throughput applications where dedicated vision processing is required. Additionally, the board supports a wide range of camera types used in today's industrial machine vision applications, including RS-170, CCIR, wide format/digital linescan, and Cognex CVC-1000™ progressive-scan cameras.
The Checkpoint II system, which includes a high-speed embedded vision engine, complete software library, and on-line documentation, can be purchased for under $15,000 and is currently available from Cognex.
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 to date more than 100,000 machine vision systems. 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 has regional offices located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Visit Cognex on-line at http://www.cognex.com.