Cognex Receives Record Order from Leading Japanese Paper Manufacturer.NATICK, Mass. -- 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 its Surface Inspection Systems Division has received a record order from Oji Paper, a leading Japanese paper manufacturer. Oji Paper purchased five systems in a single purchase order; the order consists of two SmartView(R) Paper Web Inspection Systems and three SmartView(R) Winder Advisor Systems for Oji's paper machines at its Yonago, Japan mill. The SmartView Paper Web Inspection System operates in real time to inspect, categorize and visualize defects on a wide array of paper products helping paper manufacturers to significantly reduce waste and downtime on their production lines and to provide higher quality products to their customers. The Winder Advisor locates the exact position of defects during the paper re-reeling process and automatically stops the winder precisely at selected defects so that they can be removed. The Winder Advisor makes the post-process step more efficient for the manufacturer. "We purchased and installed Cognex's SmartView Winder Advisor System into a production line that already has a Cognex SmartView web inspection system, and the results were very positive," said a representative from the Oji production team. "Based on those results, we purchased these additional systems from Cognex to help us achieve similar savings on our other lines." "This large order from Oji Paper is a testament to the lower production costs and higher quality that our customers are able to achieve with Cognex machine vision systems," said Markku Jaaskelainen, Senior VP and General Manager of Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division. About Oji Paper Co., Ltd. Oji Paper Co., Ltd. is a leading Japanese paper and end-use product supplier. It is involved in the conversion/processing and sales of a wide variety of paper products including; printing and writing paper, packaging and wrapping papers, carbonless papers, household products, containerboard and boxboard box·board n. A firm cardboard used for making boxes. . It produces and sells end-use products such as corrugated board Noun 1. corrugated board - cardboard with corrugations (can be glued to flat cardboard on one or both sides) corrugated cardboard cardboard, composition board - a stiff moderately thick paper and boxboard containers, paper-board containers, plastics, thermal paper thermal paper n → papel m térmico , self-adhesive paper and disposable paper diapers, as well as the chemicals for paper-making and packaging equipment. It maintains company-owned forests and is involved in reforestation Reforestation The reestablishment of forest cover either naturally or artificially. Given enough time, natural regeneration will usually occur in areas where temperatures and rainfall are adequate and when grazing and wildfires are not too frequent. efforts both in Japan and overseas. About Cognex 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 200,000 machine vision systems, representing over $1.5 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. 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. 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. 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 online at http://www.cognex.com. |
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