Needham, Massachusetts-based Cognex Corp has begun Beta testing a new machine vision system, On-Sight: the system is designed to enable manufacturing engineers with no computer programming or machine vision experience to apply vision technologies to solve on-line gauging, robotic guidance, part inspection, and part tracking problems – On-Sight is configured by creating a flow chart on the system’s high-resolution, colour monitor that details the steps the vision system will follow to execute the application; the system uses Cognex’s VC-1 and VC-2 custom vision chips, and draws on its library of grey-scale vision algorithms; On-Sight will be available in the first quarter of 1991 at from $25,000 to $38,000.
