Cognex Corporation

Global expertise combined with local presence – this makes Cognex Corporation unique.

With worldwide more than 850 employees Cognex designs, develops, manufactures and markets vision systems – computers that can “see”. Objective and reproducible quality control of flat material like steel, aluminum, copper and also paper is one of our focuses. We help our customers to identify unlovely surface appearances in order to optimize production processes, avoid material defects and increase yield.

Founded in 1981 we have more than 30 years of experience in the field of machine vision systems and know what our customers expect: Flexible solutions which are easily adapted to the special requirements of each single application. The SmartView surface inspection system was especially designed for this purpose and is installed on roughly 1400 production lines in the meantime.  Quality leaders like voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH and Wieland Werke AG rely on the results they get from SmartView.