Proven machine vision industry expertise
We understand that as an OEM, you strive to work with trusted machine vision technology suppliers who deeply understand your market and have experience with today’s applications and an eye towards the future.
Cognex brings a wealth of industry knowledge based on decades of experience working with customers and partners in the packaging industry. Many of our largest customers are leading brands in the consumer products, food and beverage, medical device, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries. Over 25,000 customers worldwide trust our technology to help them deliver high-quality products to their customers, reduce costs associated with rework and labor, and maintain compliance to avoid costly recalls.
We are well versed in the various regulations that impact many of the submarkets of packaging, such as 21 CFR Part 11 for pharmaceutical manufacturers, MDR and UDI coding requirements for medical device providers, UFI codes on hazardous materials, and labeling requirements for food and beverage companies.
Here at Cognex, we take pride in our extensive experience solving machine vision problems in a multitude of factory settings. With over 40 years of experience, we have seen it all, from the simplest to the most complex machine vision challenges in the field.
We understand that each of our partners offers unique value to the industries they serve. By taking the time to listen and understand our partner's specific needs and situations, we can provide tailored solutions that are optimized for their unique requirements. We believe that by treating our partners as unique and valued we can build strong and lasting relationships based on trust and mutual success.
We collaborate with you to develop the best strategy for integrating the appropriate vision technology into your machinery while staying within your budget. Our team's industry expertise and experience enable us to work closely with you, delivering a tailored solution that fulfills both your requirements and those of your customers.
Visionary solutions for enhanced product quality, efficiency, and technological advancement
Cognex strives to deliver innovative machine vision products and technology to help our OEM partners deliver leading solutions that help their customers improve final product quality, increase efficiency, and enable a technology path from today to tomorrow.
- Commitment to R&D: Cognex owns over 1,000 patents. Each year, we spend between 10-15% of annual revenue on Research Development and engineering, and our level of commitment to vision technology and image processing is unmatched within the industry.
- Industry 4.0-ready products: Cognex is at the forefront of the smart factory revolution. Our vision systems are used to make over 2 billion products a day, capturing and analyzing millions of images every minute. Partners and customers can harness this big data to leverage industrial IOT platforms and make important business decisions to improve quality, optimize labor allocation, reduce scrap, and improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
- AI-based technology: Artificial intelligence is arguably the most exciting development in machine vision in the last 20 years and is expanding the boundaries of what machine vision can do. AI combines the flexibility of human inspection with the reliability and speed of a computer to solve a range of manufacturing applications quickly and consistently. Through intuitive, example-based training, AI-based technologies, like edge learning and deep learning, make it easy to automate tasks, such as part location, inspection, classification, and character reading. These AI-based pattern recognition technologies are also extremely powerful, capable of discerning subtle differences to distinguish functional defects from cosmetic anomalies. Both the functionality and ease of use of these AI-powered technologies allow manufacturers to automate tasks that were previously done manually and those that were too complicated and time-consuming to program with traditional rule-based machine vision.
Ease of integration
Incorporating machine vision solutions into OEM machinery is based on strong integration, from connecting to programmable logic controllers (PLC) to supporting network communication. Cognex machine vision systems support standard industrial and networking communication protocols, including a wide range of digital I/O and industrial communication options that make it possible for the system to communicate and integrate with automation devices such as programmable automation controllers, PLCs, human-machine interfaces, vision-guided robotics, sensors, and actuators. Inspection data from vision systems can be securely exported in standard formats for local or cloud-based analytics.
Edge Intelligence – One platform to manage devices and collect data
Machine vision tools and barcode reading systems produce a lot of insight-rich data across manufacturing and logistics facilities. Efficient data collection and analysis from highly interconnected devices form the backbone of Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) initiatives.
The Cognex Edge Intelligence (EI) platform transforms big data into smart data and provides real-time system performance monitoring and device management to improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and throughput. Configure devices and collect data in minutes. EI collects performance data, analyzes trends, and monitors configuration changes, enabling operators to take swift action to address issues before they cause costly issues downstream.
Global service and support
From development to deployment, we are here to help you get your vision systems up and running as fast as possible. Cognex is committed to ensuring your success with our machine vision solutions. We have the largest and most experienced network of automation and machine vision professionals in the world. We have over 75 offices worldwide, which means you and your customers get local support on a global level. In addition to Customer Service and Support, we provide on-site and on-demand training opportunities to help your staff become proficient in Cognex solutions. We understand your customers' large capital investments with your packaging machinery and expect them to last several years to decades. Machine utilization of this timeframe can supersede the lifecycles of embedded technologies, such as machine vision systems. To help support this model, Cognex provides long-term support for its products but will also work closely with you on planning retrofits to ensure a smooth transition path to take advantage of new technology.
Leading OEMs partner with Cognex to help their machines deliver the highest level of automated quality control and traceability for their customer’s applications. They value a trusted partnership that includes industry expertise, innovative technology, ease of integration, global service and support, and a common data collection platform that provides the basis for analytical insights into performance.