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COGNEX 康耐视是为制造自动化领域提供视觉系统、视觉软件、视觉传感器和工业读码器的先进提供商。

COGNEX 康耐视视觉系统帮助公司企业提高产品质量、消除生产错误、降低制造成本、提供低廉的高质量产品从而超越消费者期望。

典型机器视觉应用包括检测缺陷、监控生产线、引导装配机器人以及跟踪、分类和识别零件。

COGNEX 康耐视通过遍布北美、欧洲、日本、亚洲和拉丁美洲的办公室，以及集成与分销合作伙伴全球网络为国际客户提供服务。公司总部位于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿附近的 Natick 郡。

COGNEX 康耐视在纳斯达克股票市场上以代号 CGNX 公开交易。

公司历史

COGNEX 康耐视庆祝从事机器视觉事业40周年
2021年标志着COGNEX 康耐视成立40周年。对于任何一家企业来说，拥有40年的历史都是不同寻常的，对于一家科技公司而言更是如此。COGNEX 康耐视不仅成功生存了下来，而且成为了机器视觉领域公认的领导者。我们取得成功的基石在于秉承保持创新精神、大胆无畏和富有创造力的悠久传统。作为一家拥有40年历史的公司，我们具备良好的声誉和雄厚的经济实力；与此同时，我们也如同一家初创公司一样行动迅速！我们是一家重视努力工作以确保在我们所从事的领域做到最优秀的公司，同时也是一家富有幽默感且朝气蓬勃的公司。

新公司，新产业
COGNEX 康耐视由当时担任麻省理工学院人类视觉感知学科讲师的 Robert J. Shillman 博士于 1981 创立。Shillman 博士决定离开研究院用 10 万美元的全部积蓄投资创办COGNEX 康耐视公司。他邀请两个麻省理工学院学生 – Marilyn Matz 和 Bill Silver – 联手开始商业冒险，通过为他们免费提供自行车说服他们离开麻省理工学院一个暑期。而 Marilyn 和 Bill 继续留下来联合创办公司，将最初的暑假打工变成了职业生涯的开始。这三个人成为公司的创始人 – 并为公司起名COGNEX 康耐视 (Cognex) – 意思是“识别专家”。

第一个视觉系统
公司在 1982 年制造了第一个视觉系统 DataMan。DataMan 是世界上第一个能够读取、验证和确认零件和组件上直接标记的字母、数字和符号的工业光学字符识别 (OCR) 系统。COGNEX 康耐视的第一个客户是打字机制造商，他们购买该系统用于检测每个打字机上的按键以确保其处于正确位置。

半导体成功
作为原始设备制造商的供应商，COGNEX 康耐视开始寻找机器视觉能够提供重要竞争优势的市场。COGNEX 康耐视在半导体和电子资本设备行业中发现了新市场。今天，机器视觉几乎对每个半导体制造步骤都必不可少，而这些应用的大部分都是由COGNEX 康耐视工程师开发的。2005 年COGNEX 康耐视创办人 Robert J. Shillman 博士、Bill Silver 和 Marilyn Matz 被国际半导体行业协会 (SEMI) 授予 2005 年 SEMI 奖，以表彰他们对半导体制造业的重要技术贡献。

COGNEX 康耐视成为市场领导者
COGNEX 康耐视专注原始设备制造商的战略取得成效。1987 年伊始公司开始首次盈利。1989 年COGNEX 康耐视以每股 1.38 美元在 NASDAQ 公开交易。一年之内，股票价格上涨三倍。

21 世纪视觉应用
自从二十世纪八十年代初开发出第一款 DataMan 系统以来，现在的视觉系统已经经过了长时间发展。我们现在为COGNEX 康耐视客户提供的功能和以用户为中心的设计，是我们在 39 年间开发新视觉技术和解决各行业最棘手的视觉问题过程中累积的实践经验结晶。

COGNEX — THE LEADER IN MACHINE VISION

The world’s leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation.

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.

Cognex serves an international customer base from offices located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and through a global network of integration and distribution partners. The company is headquartered close to Boston in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Cognex is publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol CGNX.

COMPANY HISTORY

Cognex Celebrates 40 Years of Vision
2021 marks the 40th Anniversary of Cognex. It’s unusual for any business to be around for 40 years, and it’s even more unusual for a technology company. Not only has Cognex survived, but we have become the recognized leader in machine vision. Our success is based on a long tradition of being innovative, bold, and creative. While we have the reputation and financial strength of a 40-year-old company, we move fast like a start-up! We are a company that values working hard to become the best at what we do, but we are also a company that has a sense of humor and is young in spirit.

A New Company, and a New Industry
Cognex Corporation was founded in 1981 by Dr. Robert J. Shillman, a lecturer in human visual perception at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Shillman decided to leave academia to start Cognex, investing his life savings of $100,000 into the company. He invited two MIT graduate students – Marilyn Matz and Bill Silver – to embark on this business venture with him, offering free bicycles to convince them to leave MIT for a summer. What began as a summer job for Marilyn and Bill turned out to be the start of a career, as they stayed on to help co-found the company. These three individuals gave Cognex its start – and its name, which was derived from the phrase "Cognition Experts".

First Vision System
The company produced its first vision system, DataMan, in 1982. DataMan was the world’s first industrial optical character recognition (OCR) system capable of reading, verifying, and assuring the quality of letters, numbers, and symbols marked directly on parts and components. Cognex's first customer was a typewriter manufacturer, who purchased the system to inspect the keys on each typewriter to ensure that they were located in the correct position.

Semiconductor Success
As an OEM supplier, Cognex began looking for markets where machine vision provided a critical competitive advantage. Cognex found that market in the semiconductor and electronics capital equipment industry. Today, machine vision is essential in virtually every step of semiconductor manufacturing, and the large majority of these applications were developed by Cognex engineers. In 2005, Cognex founders Dr. Robert J. Shillman, Bill Silver and Marilyn Matz were honored by Semiconductor Manufacturers International (SEMI) with the 2005 SEMI Award, in recognition of their important technical contributions to semiconductor manufacturing.

Cognex Becomes a Market Leader
Cognex's OEM-focused strategy paid off. In early 1987, the company became profitable for the first time in its history. Cognex went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 1989, at $1.38 per share. Within one year, the stock price had tripled.

21st Century Vision
Today’s vision systems have come a long way since the first DataMan system was developed in the early 1980s. The functionality and user-focused design now available to Cognex customers is the result of over 39 years of hands-on experience developing new vision technology and solving the industry's most challenging vision applications.