Cognex Expands Data Access Capabilities of SmartView Web Inspection Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 Cognex Corporation Cognex Corporation is an American corporation that manufactures commercial machine vision systems. Cognex is the world leader in its field, holding an array of patents and employing academic experts. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on - CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, announced today that it has expanded the data access capabilities of the SmartView(R) system, the company's industry-leading web inspection system used for detecting and classifying defects in papers, metals, nonwovens, and other materials. The new enhancements include the following: -- OPC data access - Ensures real-time inspection control and data access between the SmartView system and business, production, and quality systems in the mill. Real-time data access can be valuable, for example, in situations where a mill requires notification of defects as they occur in order to react to them immediately. The industry-standard OPC interface also enables easy integration of the SmartView system with other real-time systems. -- ODBC data access - Provides flexible, remote access to inspection data from mill information systems and other third-party production data management applications. This would enable, for example, a user to easily query a database about the types of defects that occurred during a given shift or product run. "In order to maximize production yield and reduce scrap, today's mills are more reliant than ever on having easy, open access to defect data - during production and even after product has been shipped to the customer," said Bob Chiricosta, Director of Marketing for Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division. "By leveraging widely-used, open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced such as OPC (1) (OpenGL Performance Characterization) A project group within GPC that manages OpenGL benchmarks. OPC endorses the Viewperf and GLperf benchmarks. Viewperf was created by IBM and OPC provides viewsets for it, which are combinations of tests using specific and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , the SmartView system now gives users even greater control of their processes by providing increased access to the data they need, when and where they need it." The SmartView system is a state-of-the-art, online surface inspection system that combines high-performance line-scan cameras, a separate camera support unit, specialized lighting, and a library of advanced image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished and analysis tools for detecting and classifying defects. 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 175,000 machine vision systems, representing over $1 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquartered in Alameda, California Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on a small island of the same name next to Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay. An additional part of the city is Bay Farm Island, which is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. , specializes in machine vision systems that are used for inspecting the surfaces of products manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, and plastics. Cognex's Modular Vision Systems Division, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts Natick (Pronunciation IPA: /ˈneɪtɪk/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 32,170 at the , specializes in machine vision systems that are used for automating the manufacture of a wide range of discrete items and for assuring their quality. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices located throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Visit Cognex on-line at http://www.cognex.com. |
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