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News Release from: Cognex UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 December 2003
Cognex makes agreement with automation
company
Cognex has recently concluded a worldwide cooperation agreement with the German company, Johann A. Krause Maschinenfabrik to work closely together on technical issues in the future.
Cognex has recently concluded a worldwide cooperation agreement with the German company, Johann A Krause Maschinenfabrik
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As the world market leader in the industrial imaging sector, Cognex is the ideal partner for Johann A.
Krause.
The agreement will allow Johann A.
Krause to exploit Cognex's comprehensive expertise in this field.
Johann A.
Krause develops, designs, manufactures and delivers turnkey assembly systems for powertrain components.
This includes the associated inspection and testing installations, for the automotive and automotive supply industries.
In the automation segment, the Johann A.
Krause Group is a technology leader and ranks among the preferred suppliers of semi-automatic and fully automatic systems.
Each of the two companies anticipates powerful synergy benefits as they implement customised solutions.
Cognex's outstanding technology, many years of experience in industrial image processing, and provision of worldwide local support and training were the key criteria applied by Johann A.
Krause in its search for a strategic partner.
"This cooperation with Cognex will allow Johann A.
Krause Maschinenfabrik to fulfill all specific requests from our customers as efficiently as possible" says Dr.Thomas Trittin, Project Manager Development Controls Department at Johann A.
Krause.
The wealth of expertise harnessed by Johann A.
Krause in the automotive industry is certain to have an important impact on product development plans at Cognex.
Eric Ceyrolle, President of International Operations at Cognex explains the alliance from his company's perspective, "Collaborating with a strong partner in the powertrain segment will help us grow our market share in the automotive industry, which is becoming more and more important to our business." About Johann A.
Krause Maschinenfabrik - Johann A.
Krause Maschinenfabrik GmbH was founded in 1950.
Nowadays the Johann A.
Krause Group, with its subsidiaries and sister companies in the ThyssenKrupp Technologies division, and more than 2,300 employees, posts an operating performance of about EUR 400 million.
The modular array of products embraces the full range of components for the manual and semi-automatic as well as fully automatic assembly of engines, transmissions, axles and their sub-systems, including cylinder heads, steering systems and wheelsets.
All the components and technologies, such as bolting and fastening engineering, NC axes, transport systems, robots and handling systems, as well as specially developed inspection and testing technology, are designed with the special expertise of Johann A.
Krause to form production systems that comply with customers' demands for maximum productivity, quality and process security.
About Cognex - Cognex UK is a subsidiary of Cognex Corp., a company specialising in design, development, manufacture and marketing of machine vision systems - computers that can "see" - which are used to automate the manufacture of a wide range of products and to assure their quality.
Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped to date more than 175,000 machine vision systems, representing over $1.3 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981.
Its Modular Vision Systems Division, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, specialises in the developments of sophisticated vision software tools and board-level hardware platforms used by manufactures of discrete items around the world.
Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquarted in Alameda, California, specialises in turnkey machine vision systems for inspecting the surfaces of products manufactured in continuous processes, such as metals, paper, and plastics.
In addition to its corporate headquarters located in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Request free introductory details about products from Cognex UK ...
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