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NATICK, MA, USA 9月 20, 2016

Cognex Enters Mobile Terminal Market

Machine vision leader expands its addressable market by $500 million with smartphone-based mobile terminals powered by Cognex’s advanced barcode reading technology

Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems and industrial barcode readers used in factory automation and logistics, today announced that it has developed, and is now offering for sale, a totally new product line—ruggedized mobile terminals.

Cognex’s MX-1000 series of mobile terminals offers manufacturers, logistics companies and many other organizations that currently rely on expensive, inflexible and purpose-built mobile terminals a revolutionary new method for performing tasks such as inventory management, logistics and field service. The MX-1000 combines the ease-of-use, low-cost and flexibility of off-the-shelf smartphones together with a rugged hand-held assembly that holds both the phone and a specially designed Cognex barcode reader that outperforms competitors’ laser-based and camera-based systems. Cognex expects that this unique combination will enable it to become a major player in a $500 million segment of the mobile terminal market.

Cognex designed the MX-1000 after detailed discussions with leading companies that use mobile terminals and who are also customers of Cognex’s machine vision products and barcode readers. These customers were dissatisfied with their current mobile terminals, which they described as proprietary, expensive, closed systems that are both difficult to build applications on and costly to maintain. They urged Cognex to design a flexible mobile terminal that includes Cognex’s field-proven barcode reading technology. Early units of the MX-1000 have been undergoing field testing by a number of Fortune 500 companies, and Cognex is now receiving orders from them.

“The initial versions of our mobile terminal will offer Cognex’s superior capability for reading both 1-D and 2-D barcodes, but the hardware in each unit is a complete Cognex vision engine that is capable of far more than just reading barcodes,” said Dr. Robert J. Shillman, Founder and Chairman of Cognex. “I envision that in the near future, customers will ask us to add other valuable vision-based capabilities such as optical character recognition (OCR), package dimensioning and inspection.”

“Cognex is disrupting the market for mobile terminals by offering customers the power, ease-of-use and low cost of Android® and iOS®-based smartphones together with Cognex’s barcode reading technology,” said Robert J. Willett, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cognex. “Customers no longer need to choose between ruggedness and flexibility; with the Cognex MX-1000, they’ll get the best of both together with industry-leading DataMan® technology for reading barcodes reliably, even under the most difficult conditions.”

"This is an innovative approach to augmenting the functionality of today's modern mobile devices. It comes at a time of significant disruption and transition in the mobile terminal market because of the phasing out of existing Microsoft® WindowsCE® and WindowsMobile® 6.x powered handheld terminals as these platforms reach end of life (EOL),” said David Krebs, Executive VP, Enterprise Mobility & Connected Devices, VDC Research. “With the MX-1000, Cognex is offering its customers a unique option to address industrial class data collection on ubiquitous modern smartphones without sacrificing ruggedness and environmental requirements. Furthermore, the ability to future proof investments is a particularly unique and important differentiator."

For more information about the MX-1000, go to: www.cognex.com/mx-1000

コグネックスコーポレーションについて

コグネックスコーポレーション(「当社」または「コグネックス」)は、製造および流通業界の非常に重要な課題に対処するテクノロジを開発、商品化しています。コグネックスは魅力的な産業向け各種市場にわたり、大きな成長が見込める事業において、効率と品質を向上させるマシンビジョン製品/ソリューションのグローバルなトッププロバイダーです。コグネックスのソリューションは物理的な製品とソフトウェアを融合させ、視覚情報を取り込んで解析し、世界中の顧客が製造および流通業務を自動化できるようにしています。マシンビジョン製品は、電気自動車用バッテリ、eコマース用パッケージなど、個々の製品を探索、識別、検査、計測することによって、製造または流通および追跡を自動化する目的で用いられます。マシンビジョンは、人間の視覚では不十分で、サイズ、精度、またはスピードに関する要件を満たせない場合、または大きな費用削減や品質向上を継続できるような用途できわめて重要です。

コグネックスは、1981年の創業以来400万台以上の画像処理式の製品を出荷し、累積収入が100億ドルを超えるマシンビジョンシステム業界におけるワールドワイドリーダーです。コグネックスは、アメリカのマサチューセッツ州ネイティックに本社を置き、南北アメリカ大陸、ヨーロッパ、およびアジアで事業を展開しています。詳しくは、コグネックスのホームページ(www.cognex.com)をご覧ください。

接触:
Nathan McCurren
Head of Investor Relations
Cognex Corporation
ir@cognex.com

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