Cognex Corporation, one of the global leaders in industrial machine vision, announced the completion of the acquisition of Japanese optical components company Moritex. This is the largest acquisition in Cognex’s history.

Founded in 1981, Cognex is the world’s leading provider of machine vision products and solutions, focusing on the key challenges in manufacturing and distribution, through the combination of hardware and software to capture and analyze visual information, helping customers around the world to automate production and distribution. Our machine vision products are widely used in various fields such as automated production, distribution and item traceability for positioning, identification, detection and measurement, such as mobile phones, new energy power battery production and e-commerce package transportation. In applications where size, accuracy, read speed and other requirements cannot be met by human vision, or where continuous cost control and consistent quality improvement are required, Cognex can fully support your manufacturing and distribution processes for faster, smarter and more efficient operations.

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Founded in 1973, Moritex develops, manufactures and sells machine vision optical components such as high-end lenses and light sources for the industrial sector. With a long history of 50 years, Moritex has established a good reputation for high-quality, standard optical components and is an industry leader. The company specializes in developing and selling high-precision solutions for equipment manufacturers in a wide range of industrial markets, with products and services spanning multiple industries and a strong customer base, including many large multinational corporations.

Following the acquisition, Cognex will own all of Moritex’s assets and businesses. In the future, Cognex and Moritex will work together to provide customers with more advanced and comprehensive machine vision solutions. By integrating the technology and resource advantages of both sides, it will bring more possibilities for global automated manufacturing!