Cognex Corporation invents and brings to market the technologies that solve the toughest problems in manufacturing and distribution. The company's machine vision products and solutions - combinations of physical hardware and software that capture and interpret visual information - sit at the heart of automation across high-growth industries and broader industrial markets. Working with manufacturers and distributors worldwide, Cognex's tools are deployed wherever discrete items need to be tracked or moved: mobile phones, electric vehicle batteries, e-commerce packages. The systems handle locating, identifying, inspecting, and measuring those items, and in doing so automate processes that would otherwise consume considerable manual effort.