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UK Industrial Vision Association Member
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Suite C5
Sunningdale House Caldecotte Lake Business Park, Caldecotte
Milton Keynes MK7 8LF |
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Phone: |
+44 (0) 1908 206000 |
Total Staff: |
650 Worldwide |
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Fax: |
+44 (0) 1908 392463 |
Vision Staff: |
30 |
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Email: |
sales@cognex.co.uk |
Vision Turnover: |
£6M (UK-1999) £100M (World 1999) |
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Website: |
www.cognex.co.uk |
Export Sales: |
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Key
Contacts: |
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Daniel van Rookhujizen - North Europe Marketing |
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Represented
in: UK, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan |
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Company
History |
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Cognex Corporation was founded in 1981 by a graduates of MIT in Boston, and quickly became established as the leading vision supplier to the electronics and semiconductor industries. Today Cognex employs over 600 people worldwide and is the world's most successful machine vision company, with over 100,000 vision systems sold to date. Following the acquisition of Image Industries in 2000, Cognex is now the largest vision company in the UK, in terms of sales volume and vision staff.
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Products
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Cognex offer a wide range of industrial vision systems backed up by local application engineering, vision solution engineering, service and support. The 8000 series offers both frame grabber and vision engines for the PC, providing a powerful solution for OEMs and system integrators, while Checkpoint uses a graphical programming language and is used by manufacturing engineers and integrators. The new InSight vision sensor uses the powerful Cognex software tools in a low cost modular system. Other application specific solutions include products for character reading and verification (OCR, OCV), two dimensional code reading (2D matrix), LCD inspection and fiducial finding. |
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Company
Specialisations |
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Cognex is recognised as the leading company in applying vision for machine guidance and alignment, assembly and verification, print defect detection and gauging applications. |
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Industrial
Sectors Supplied |
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Primary industrial sectors supplied are electronics, semiconductor, automotive components, mobile phone, print and packaging, medical and pharmaceutical. |
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Typical
Applications |
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Applications include connector inspection; LCD inspection and test; print quality inspection; robot guidance; accurate alignment of PCBs for component placement and screen printing; mobile phone inspection; automotive component assembly verification; OCR, OCV and datamatrix 2D code reading.
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