Cognex Corporation

Cognex Corporation is the world’s leading provider

of vision systems, vision software, vision sensors

and surface inspection systems used  in

manufacturing automation. 

Cognex is also a leader in industrial ID readers.

Cognex vision helps companies improve product 

quality, eliminate production errors, lower 

manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer 

expectations for high quality products at an

affordable price.

Typical applications for machine vision include

detecting defects, monitoring production lines

guiding assembly robots, and tracking, sorting

and identifying parts.

Contact:
Cognex Headquarters 

Cognex Corporation

One Vision Drive Natick, MA 01760­2059 

E-mail: Support_Details

Internet: www.cognex.com

Machine Vision Software

Vision software from the world leader 

VisionPro® has been set free. Now you can get the 

world’s top vision software with its robust tool library

-no matter what camera or frame grabber you use-even

nontraditional sources such as such as 3D profilers,

thermal cameras and X­ray imagers.

That means all applications benefit from this

broad­based, industrial­grade tool set from Cognex.

• Proven in more than 500,000 installations worldwide,

the VisionPro tool library spans all vision needs …

from geometric object location and inspection to

identification and measurement.

• Combined with flexible and powerful PC-based

development, VisionPro makes it faster than ever

to create and deploy solutions for the most

challenging machine vision applications.

• VisionPro also supports Microsoft® 64-bit operating

systems to meet the demands of larger cameras and

greater pixel depth. VisionPro software’s

framework enables users to switch seamlessly

between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

National Instruments

National Instruments is a global company headquartered in

Austin, Texas . NI has 4,000 employees around the globe

and direct operations in 40 countries. For 30 years National

Instruments has developed, produced and sold high-quality

components for computer-based measurement and automation.

NI products are used in numerous industries such as aerospace,

automotive, telecommunications, engineering, research and

education, medicine, pharmaceuticals, packaging, printing, food

and beverages and the textile industry. Products for industrial

image acquisition and processing are an integral part of National

Instruments' portfolio.

Contact:
National Instruments
Konrad-Celtis-Str. 79
D-81369 München
Tel. +49 (0) 89 7413130
Calling from the US: (800) 531-5066
Email: info.germany@ni.com
Internet: www.ni.com/camera

Machine Vision Software

National Instruments' software is used in a broad range of

application areas. Typical tasks include inspection of surfaces

and dimensional accuracy, identification, verification, classification

and sorting as well as robot vision, x-ray, and positioning.

• Vision Builder AI is a configurable software enabling

even users with little experience to develop machine

vision applications within a very short time. Vision

Builder AI is an open and flexible software.

Programming structures can be chosen freely and

the functionality, consisting of numerous algorithms,

is scalable.

• Vision Development Module adds vision algorithms

to the functionality of programming languages

LabVIEW, .Net, VB, C, C++, etc.). This enables

users to program machine vision applications in a

familiar development environment and benefit from

its flexibility and modularity.

MVTec Software GmbH

MVTec Software GmbH is a leading international manufacturer

of software for machine vision used in all demanding areas

of imaging: semi-conductor industry, web inspection, quality

control and inspection applications in general, medicine,

surveillance etc. MVTec is the developer and vendor of the

standard software products HALCON and ActivVisionTools.

MVTec is the only software manufacturer worldwide purely

developing standard software for machine vision. Furthermore,

MVTec builds customized software solutions - from consultancy,

studies, and prototypes up to integrated products. MVTec's

innovative work is driven by a commitment to be the number one

supplier for sophisticated technologies in machine vision. The

services and products are distributed worldwide by MVTec's

extensive network of more than 30 established distributors.

Contact:

MVTec Software GmbH

Neherstr. 1

81675 München

Germany

Voice: +49 (89) 457 695 0

Fax: +49 (89) 457 695 55

E-mail: info@mvtec.com

Internet: www.mvtec.com

Machine Vision Software

• HALCON is the comprehensive standard software with

an integrated development environment (IDE) for

machine vision that is used worldwide. It leads to

cost savings and improved time to market:

HALCON's flexible architecture facilitates rapid

development of machine vision, medical imaging,

and image analysis applications. HALCON

provides outstanding performance and a

comprehensive support of multi-core platforms,

MMX, and SSE2. It serves all industries by a

library of more than 1400 operators for blob

analysis, morphology, pattern matching, measuring,

identification, and 3D vision, to name just a few.

HALCON secures your investment by supporting a

wide range of operating systems and providing

interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and

frame grabbers, including GenICam, GigE Vision,

and IIDC 1394.

• ActivVisionTools is the outstanding result of MVTec's

expert knowledge in machine vision: a quick and

efficient application creator with an easy-to-use

graphical interface.By directly supporting digital I/O

boards and interfaces to hundreds of industrial

cameras and frame grabbers, including GenICam,

GigE Vision, and IIDC 1394, ActivVisionTools is

integrable into any production process.

ActivVisionTools' open software architecture is

extensible and scalable to always fit your needs.

Several tools such as ActivAlignment,

ActivBarcode, ActivBlobFinder, ActivDataCode,

ActivMeasure, ActivOCR, are based on the

established HALCON library.