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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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Sappi Selects Cognex for Web Inspection
POSTED 06/14/2001
NATICK, Mass. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - June 12, 2001: Cognex Corporation, the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, announced today that Sappi, the world's leading producer of coated, wood-free fine paper, has integrated Cognex's SmartView™ ICN web inspection system at their manufacturing facility in Gratkorn, Austria.
Sappi will use the SmartView ICN system to perform quality inspection on its production of fine paper, which is used in high-quality publications, such as annual reports, and brochures. The Cognex vision system will inspect the paper for defects such as edge cracks, holes, light spots, oil spots, wrinkles and dark spots at production speeds of more than 4,000 feet per minute. SmartView's Winder Advisor system installed at the re-reeler will use the defect information to stop the winder at severe defect locations, allowing operators to make repairs before the paper goes into the coating machine.
"SmartView allows manufacturers like Sappi to not only inspect defects at full production speeds, but also reduce the number of web breaks and increase winder throughput," said Markku Jaaskelainen, General Manager of Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division. "Process improvements like these are designed to enhance a company's efficiency and product quality, which results in improved overall output."
SmartView ICN is a state-of-the-art web inspection system that is used to automatically detect, identify and display defects in paper and other materials as they are being produced. Cognex has sold over 100 SmartView ICN systems since its release in February, 2000, making it the most successful product launch in the history of Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division.
Sappi is the world's leading producer of coated, wood-free paper, which is used in high-quality publications such as annual reports, catalogs, brochures and magazines. With manufacturing operations in North America, Europe and Africa and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide, Sappi sells nearly a quarter of the coated, wood-free paper in the western world.
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 150,000 machine vision systems, representing $1 billion in cumulative revenue sincethe company's founding in 1981. Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquartered in Alameda, California, specializes in machine vision systems, also known as web inspection 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 online at www.cognex.com.