Applications

A completely mobile 2D code reader has been launched by Fairfield Group combining a Cognex DataMan 7550 reader with a handheld PC from Socket.

A system that sorts numerous speciality screws for the automotive industry has been developed by Pace Automation, a manufacturer of sorting machines, using Cognex's In-Sight cameras.

Cognex In-Sight cameras have been successfully installed at one of the most productive automotive manufacturing plants in Europe. The system is used on production lines to guide a mechanical centraliser in manipulating windowpanes.

Twelve fixed PoliScan Speed systems, designed by Vitronic, are to begin operation on Lithuanian roads this summer. The system provides speed enforcement on up to three lanes of traffic.

e2v's CCD image sensors on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have captured an image of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute as the lander successfully arrived on Mars.

The German company, Feige Filling, supplies a robotic filling technology equipped with Cognex vision that provides a safe, rapid, cost-effective, and fully automated filling process.

Prosilica, a digital camera manufacturer based in Canada, is supplying GigE vision cameras to NASA as part of an upgraded space shuttle video/camera recording system.

e2v has won a contract to supply imaging sensors to the Space Application Centre (SAC), part of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), for their new satellites.

The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), based in Middlesex, has purchased an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanner from Kent-based Michelson Diagnostics. The scanner will be used in NPL's research.

e2v's CCD imaging sensors have been launched into space on board the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jules Verne spacecraft.