Growth in logistics partially offset the weak automotive market year-on-year, and more than offset it on a sequential basis
The job cuts are part of steps Cognex is taking to lower expenses because of deteriorating market conditions. The firm's CEO and chairman will waive their salaries, and the company’s board of directors have waived their cash fees for the remainder of the year
Cognex has introduced the In-Sight D900 embedded vision system
Cognex's revenue declined 4 per cent in Q1-20, but said the Covid-19 outbreak had only a modest adverse impact on business in the quarter. It expects further decline in Q2-20
Cognex expects the decline in revenue to continue into the first quarter of 2020, because of weakness in automotive and the estimated impact of the coronavirus outbreak
The Moon landing was 50 years old in 2019. Zeiss lenses were used to capture this image
The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves
The result reflects lower sales to customers in consumer electronics, particularly smartphone manufacturing. Revenue from automotive and other industrial markets also continued to weaken
Sualab’s Suakit machine vision software uses neural networks to detect atypical and irregular defects that are not easily captured by a traditional rule-based machine vision system
Cognex expects its revenue to continue to decline in the third quarter 2019, because of lower revenue predicted from consumer electronics and weakness in Europe and Asia
Cognex's revenue in the first quarter of 2019 was $173.5 million, an increase of 2 per cent from Q1-18 but a decline of 10 per cent from Q4-18
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Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
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Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
