UK Industrial Vision Association Member
 

COGNEX UK LTD

 

Unit C
43  Sunningdale House,  Caldecotte Lake Business Park,                       Caldecotte
Milton Keynes MK7 8LF

         
  Phone:    

 +44 (0) 1908 206000

 Total Staff: 650 Worldwide
  Fax:

 +44 (0) 1908 392463

 Vision Staff: 30
  Email: sales@cognex.co.uk Vision Turnover: £6M (UK-1999) £100M (World 1999)
  Website: www.cognex.co.uk Export Sales:
  Key Contacts:
 
Daniel van Rookhujizen - North Europe Marketing
 
  Represented in: UK, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan
   
  Company History
  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.
  Products & Services
  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.
  Company Specialisations
  Cognex is recognised as the leading company in applying vision for machine guidance and alignment, assembly and verification, print defect detection and gauging applications.
  Industrial Sectors Supplied
  Primary industrial sectors supplied are electronics, semiconductor, automotive components, mobile phone, print and packaging, medical and pharmaceutical.
  Typical Applications
  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.