Inspection & Quality

Cognex Corp. 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.

Cognex Corp. addedf the DataMan 70 series to its successful line of compact fixed-mount barcode readers. DataMan 70 delivers high read rates for 1-D and 2-D label-based barcodes in a form factor small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.

Cognex Corp. released the DataMan 370 series of fixed-mount barcode readers. With twice the computing power of conventional readers in its class, the DataMan 370 delivers faster decode speeds for greater throughput per facility, even when applications have multiple codes and symbologies.

Cognex Corp. introduced the DataMan 470 series of fixed-mount barcode readers. Designed for high-speed, high-throughput manufacturing and logistics lines, DataMan 470 is the fastest and most powerful reader in the company's line of industrial barcode readers.

Cognex Corp. introduced the DataMan 8072 verifier for direct part mark (DPM) verification. The DataMan 8072V helps those printing or marking DPM codes demonstrate code quality and certify readability.

Cognex Corp. introduced the new In-Sight 7000 series, a suite of ultrarugged, highly modular standalone vision systems. The second generation In-Sight 7000 series represents a breakthrough in performance, flexibility and ease of integration.

Cognex Corp. announced the introduction of the In-Sight 2000 series, a product line that combines the power of its In-Sight vision systems with the simplicity and affordability of a vision sensor.

Cognex Corp. announced the release of the In-Sight 9000, a series of ultra-high-resolution vision systems. The In-Sight 9000 series acquires exceptionally detailed images for high-accuracy part location, measurement and inspection over large areas—even when mounted at long distances.

Gleason Corp. introduces analysis systems for gear inspection with its 300GMSL Multi-Sensor Gear Inspection System and the GRSL Gear Rolling System with integrated Laser Scanning. The versatile platform of Gleason's 300GMSL gear metrology system provides the classic tactile probing methods for inspecting conventional gear characteristics on spur and helical cylindrical gears as well as straight, spiral and hypoid bevel gears with a diameter of up to 300 mm.

Wireless power pioneer Nikola Labs will launch Vero, the perpetually powered equipment health monitoring system. An industrial internet of things (IIoT) solution, VERO is an out-of-the-box system for manufacturers to closely monitor process critical equipment.

The next generation of in-line inspection instrumentation is in development for aerospace and other industries.

Automated deburring makes the process more efficient, giving the end product a more consistent finish from part to part.