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News Release from: Cognex UK
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 March 2004
Founders are heroes of manufacturing
The three founders of Cognex have been selected by Fortune Magazine as "Heroes of manufacturing" for 2004.
The three founders of Cognex, Dr Robert J Shillman, Chairman and CEO, Bill Silver, Senior Vice President and CTO and Marilyn Matz, Senior Vice President of Engineering, have been selected by Fortune Magazine as "Heroes of manufacturing" for 2004 An annual feature, "Heroes of manufacturing" honours companies and individuals who are trailblazers in the manufacturing industry
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Founded in 1981, Cognex created the market for machine vision systems.
Cofounder Dr Robert J Shillman left an academic position at MIT to start Cognex, inviting two of the school's top graduate students, Bill Silver and Marilyn Matz, to join him.
The company's three cofounders provided the impetus to make Cognex the world's leading machine vision company, with over 200,000 vision systems sold to date.
"We are honoured to be recognised by Fortune magazine", stated Dr Shillman.
"Credit truly belongs to the entire Cognex team of experienced and dedicated individuals, whose high standards, creativity and hard work over a long period of time have brought our company to the forefront of the machine vision industry.
Our priority continues to be customer focused to ensure that everything that we do is driven to satisfy the needs of our current and future customers".
"Over the last 20 years, machine vision has become a critical component in advanced manufacturing, as important as motors, gears and conveyor lines", explained CTO, Bill Silver.
"The development of machine vision has enabled products to be mass-produced that would otherwise be very expensive and, therefore, beyond the reach of many consumers.
Just about everything that you buy today, from razor blades and nappies, to DVD players and mobile phones, would be far more expensive and less reliable, were it not for automated production.
And today, in many factories around the world, automated production is made possible because of Cognex's systems". Request free introductory details about products from Cognex UK ...
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