Looking towards the South-East - Cognex Opens Strategic Office in Vienna
Cognex, the world leader in vision systems, vision software, vision sensors and surface inspection systems, opened a new strategic office in Vienna on 30 May 2008. With its new sales centre, Cognex is sending out a clear signal beyond Austria's borders to the markets of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The company has its sights focused on countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The new office will act as a link to Europe's centres of technology, giving these countries better access to vision technologies. The selection of Vienna as a location was thus also based on strategic considerations.
David Hinchliffe, District Sales Manager for Austria and Eastern Europe, commented on the opening of the new office in Vienna, "The growing markets in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe mean that the channels required for knowledge transfer must be kept as short as possible. Vision technology is today a core feature of all top-class industrial automation structures and can play an important role in the continued development of growth markets in Eastern Europe." He went on to add, "We want to provide crucial support for this development process".
About Cognex
COGNEX designs, develops, produces and sells machine-based vision systems and computers which allow machines to see "intelligently". Cognex is the world's leading supplier of machine-based vision systems, with over 400,000 systems already supplied, corresponding to a cumulative turnover of over 2 billion USD since the company was founded in 1981. The Modular Vision Systems Division of Cognex is based in Natick, Massachusetts, and specialises in machine-based vision systems used in the automated production and quality assurance of individual parts. The Surface Inspection Systems Division headquartered in Alamenda, California, concentrates on the high-speed surface inspection of sheet product made of metal, paper and plastic. In addition to the headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, there are other subsidiaries in North America, Japan, Europe and South-East Asia. The head office of Cognex Europe is in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris. Further information can be found on our website at http://www.cognex.com.