Product category:
People in Manufacturing
News Release from: Cognex UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2004
Fortune magazine names "Heroes of
Manufacturing"
Cognex, the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, recently announced that the company's three founders have been selected by Fortune Magazine as "Heroes of Manufacturing".
Cognex, the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, recently announced that the company's three founders, Dr, Robert J Shillman, Chairman and CEO, Bill Silver, Senior Vice President and CTO and Marilyn Matz, Senior Vice President of Engineering, have been selected by Fortune Magazine as "Heroes of Manufacturing" for 2004
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Vision devices speed up robotic assembly at Volvo
At the Volvo K?ping factory, seven robots assemble 17 components in 30 seconds. They use digital cameras and advanced, patent-applied image processing technology.
Pickled copper sheets checked by machine vision
Cognex says that Wieland-Werke AG, one of the world's largest copper strip manufacturers, has integrated Cognex's SmartView ICN web inspection system on its copper pickling line in Germany.
An annual feature, Heroes of Manufacturing honours companies and individuals who are trailblazers in the manufacturing industry.
The feature will be published on March 8, 2004 in Fortune's Industrial Management and Technology edition, which is distributed to more than 250,000 subscribers.
Founded in 1981, Cognex created the market for machine vision systems, which can be simply described as computers that can 'see'.
Further reading
Complex vision technology in an affordable unit
Cognex have introduced the In-Sight 2000, an entirely new type of industrial machine vision sensor at a cost usually associated with "smart cameras"
Vision systems retrofitted like CNC
Special purpose machine tools and assembly systems, with Cognex machine vision systems as an integral part, are being supplied to the automotive industry by Douglas Curtis Machine Tools
Machine vision is used wherever vision is needed to perform automated assembly and process control tasks such as ensuring the correct number of chocolate chips in cookies or ensuring the correct placement of semiconductor chips inside mobile phones.
Co-founder Dr Robert J.
Shillman left an academic position at MIT to start Cognex, inviting two of the school's top graduate students, Bill Silver and Marilyn Matz, to join him.
The company's three co-founders provided the impetus to make Cognex the world's leading machine vision company, with over 200,000 vision systems sold to date.
"We are honoured to be recognised by Fortune magazine," stated Dr Shillman.
"Credit truly belongs to the entire Cognex team of experienced and dedicated individuals, whose high standards, creativity and hard work over a long period of time have brought our company to the forefront of the machine vision industry.
Our priority continues to be customer focused to ensure that everything that we do is driven to satisfy the needs of our current and future customers." "Over the last 20 years, machine vision has become a critical component in advanced manufacturing, as important as motors, gears and conveyor lines," explained CTO, Bill Silver.
"The development of machine vision has enabled products to be mass-produced that would otherwise be very expensive and, therefore, beyond the reach of many consumers.
Just about everything that you buy today, from razor blades and nappies, to DVD players and mobile phones, would be far more expensive and less reliable, were it not for automated production. Request free introductory details about products from Cognex UK ...
And today, in many factories around the world, automated production is made possible because of Cognex's systems.".
• Cognex UK: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Manufacturingtalk email newsletter
• Manufacturingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
