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Cognex to Supply Surface Inspection Systems for China Steel

07/29/2008 - Cognex will supply seven SmartView surface inspection systems to support multiple processes in China Steel’s manufacturing plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

China Steel Corp., Taiwan, has placed an order with Cognex Corp. for seven Cognex SmartView® surface inspection systems. China Steel will use the SmartView systems to perform automated quality inspection at the company’s manufacturing plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
 
Cognex’s surface inspection systems use proprietary, high-performance machine vision hardware and software to automatically detect, visualize, and classify defects on a wide variety of high-value-added materials. At Kaohsiung, the systems will inspect in-process steel at various stages, such as during pickling, galvanizing, annealing, and tension leveling, to ensure that the product will meet rigorous quality standards.
 
“Cognex offered a comprehensive solution for each of the very diverse and demanding inspection tasks we evaluated,” said Chih-Chung Wu, Assistant General Manager at China Steel’s Kaohsiung plant. “The line-scan technology utilized in SmartView offers superior performance, especially in demanding applications, such as in galvanized steel, where we must meet the extremely high quality standards of automotive manufacturers.”
 
This multi-million dollar sale represents the largest single order that Cognex’s Surface Inspection Systems Division (SISD) has ever received.
 
Cognex Corp. designs, develops, manufactures and markets machine-vision sensors and systems that are used to help automate the manufacture of a wide range of items and to assure their quality. Cognex is a world leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 400,000 machine vision systems, representing over $2 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Mass., Cognex also has regional offices and distributors located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.