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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 Expands Vision Sensor Capabilities with Automatic ID Tools
POSTED 10/06/2000
Standalone In-Sight 2000 Vision Sensor Now Equipped With 1D Bar Code and 2D Data Matrix Code Reading Tools
Chicago, IL and Natick, MA, September 26, 2000-Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ - CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, today announced that it has added high speed part identification software tools to In-Sight 2000 - the company's award-winning low-cost, standalone vision sensor. The new tools, which can read 1D bar codes and 2D Data Matrix codes, will help manufacturers improve part traceability and process control in a number of industries including automotive, medical, pharmaceutical, consumer products, and packaging.
"Hundreds of manufacturers worldwide are currently experiencing great success using In-Sight 2000 to measure, inspect, and guide the handling of parts, and many of these companies now want to add reading capabilities to improve part traceability and inventory control throughout the manufacturing process," said Justin Testa, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Cognex. "The new In-Sight ID tools provide fast, reliable identification on everything from degraded 2D codes on fuel injectors to linear bar codes on soda bottles."
In-Sight's new ID tools support a variety of commonly used code formats including ECC200 2D Data Matrix and Interleaved 2-of-5, Code 3-of-9, and Code 128 bar codes. Utilizing highly robust identification software algorithms, In-Sight is able to provide reliable reading performance on low-contrast, poorly formed codes that result from process degradations, as well as from marking techniques such as dot-peen marking and laser etching. Additionally, In-Sight is able to monitor the quality of 2D marks as it reads, providing process feedback to operators about how, for example, a peen marker is performing so pins can be replaced if necessary.
Combined with In-Sight's high-speed DSP processing, the new ID tools can read up to 50 codes per second - even when code patterns vary in position or orientation from part to part. This is of particular benefit in many high-speed packaging applications, such as the identification of bottles, where packages may rotate on the line.
Requiring no programming, In-Sight allows users with basic spreadsheet skills to quickly and easily set up ID applications, and then make modifications on the fly during product changeovers. Using a series of simple drop down menus and dialogue boxes, users can select the code type and set up parameters based on code quality, part surface characteristics, and line speed.
In addition to the new ID tools, In-Sight 2000 features a full library of image processing and analysis tools including the revolutionary PatFind™ tool for locating parts despite changes in part orientation, scale, and appearance. The deployment kit, which includes the In-Sight processor with all vision software pre-installed, hand-held control pad, and high speed digital camera, is priced at $5,495. Cognex also offers a choice of optional LED-based lighting modules for illuminating a wide range of part types. Systems are 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 more than 100,000 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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