One of the outstanding visionaries of our industry is without doubt Cognex co-founder and Senior Vice President Bill Silver. By getting him away for a short time from both, programming (which he still does daily) as well as ultimate Frisbee (which he still does daily also), INSPECT was able to obtain some of his insights on the future developments and challenges in machine vision.
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Cognex has introduced the In-Sight 5605, a high-resolution, self-contained vision system offering unprecedented power and flexibility for applications that require visualization of very small defects, even in a large field of view. The In-Sight 5605 offers the widest range of features and advantages available in a high-resolution vision system, including full 5.0 megapixel resolution, support for Gigabit Ethernet communication, IP67 rating to withstand dust and wash down, plus a full library of high-performance Cognex vision tools for easy application setup and reliable performance.
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Cognex introduced Advantage Image Engines, a family of programmable vision devices for OEMs. The devices offer superior 1D barcode and 2D Data Matrix code reading, plus a full suite of industry-proven Cognex vision tools that make it possible to solve challenging inspection applications reliably. Advantage Image Engines are designed for easy integration into commercial and industrial equipment and feature a modular design that provides more user control over lighting, communication, and optics.
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The integrator Innovative Automation was contracted by one of their long-standing customers, a manufacturer in electromechanical actuators and emission control devices, to design and build an assembly line to produce a new actuator. This unit is a critical engine component; therefore, the client required traceability of the assembly process operations as well as the final testing operations.
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Cognex Corporation announces 3D-Locate, a library of 3D vision software tools that expands application possibilities in vision-guided robotics, assembly, and inspection.
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Cognex Corporation announced a new release of VisionPro, the company's hardware-independent vision software. VisionPro 6.0 expands image acquisition options with support for very large camera images and nontraditional sources such as 3D, thermal and X-ray imagers. VisionPro 6.0 also offers high-accuracy calibration and image correction for line scan cameras, and expanded ID reading capability of 2D codes.
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Cognex announced a new release of VisionPro, the company's hardware-independent vision software. VisionPro 6.0 expands image acquisition options with support for very large camera images and nontraditional sources such as 3D, thermal and X-ray imagers. VisionPro 6.0 also offers high-accuracy calibration and image correction for line scan cameras, and expanded ID reading capability of 2D codes.
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At the Vision show end of 2007, INSPECT hosted a panel discussion on the topic "All you ever wanted to know about Machine Vision software". One of the panelists, Cognex co-founder and Senior VP Bill Silver focused in his closing remark on motion and time resolution as the next most important development in machine vision software. INSPECT recently visited Bill at Cognex headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts and found out what this is all about and how it is connected to Cognex's vision sensor product Checker.
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