Vision system specialist Cognex
Corporation has joined the Board
of Director Companies of the CLPA
(CC-Link Partners Association),
while simultaneously launching
what is claimed to be the most
comprehensive suite of
communications capabilities ever
offered in a vision system.

CC-Link is the dominant fieldbus
in Asia and is increasingly sought
after in Europe and the Americas. It
reduces wiring, and therefore costs
in automation systems by being
configured as a ring main to which
multiple controllers and field
devices connect. Its technology is
open or non-proprietary, allowing
any company to embed it into their
products so that they can be used in
CC-Link based control systems.

The new Cognex Connect enables
out-of-the-box connectivity
between Cognex In-Sight vision
systems and virtually any major
PLC, robot, HMI and Fieldbus
system commonly used in factory
automation.