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SICK and VITRONIC Announce North American Partnership

MINNEAPOLIS – July 10, 2003 – SICK, the global leader in factory and process automation solutions, and VITRONIC, Europe’s leading machine vision company, announce today a joint partnership for the North American market. The addition of VITRONIC’s vision system solutions, the most technologically advanced system available today, will complete SICK’s Automatic Identification offerings. VITRONIC’s offerings will be combined with SICK Auto Ident, which was established in 2002 as a result of the recent acquisitions of LazerData and RVSI-Material Handling Division. These acquisitions significantly enhanced SICK’s market share position in the automatic identification industry with a broad, state-of-the-art products and solutions portfolio including bar code line scanners, omni directional systems, integration software and dimensioning products.

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Cognex Selected by Leading Cosmetic Maker for Automated Product Identification

NATICK, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 16, 2003–Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX – News), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems, announced today that one of the world’s largest cosmetic manufacturers has selected Cognex machine vision to verify date and lot codes on products such as mascara, lipstick, and nail polish during manufacturing. The codes are used to identify products for quality assurance purposes and to track their manufacturing history.

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Späths Ära bei Jenoptik endet

Die Umzugskartons sind gepackt, der Möbelwagen ist bestellt. Am kommenden Mittwoch räumt Lothar Späth den Chefsessel in der Konzernzentrale der Jenoptik AG in Jena. Fast auf den Tag genau zwölf Jahre nach seinem Amtsantritt übergibt der heute 65-Jährige das Steuer beim größten börsennotierten Ost-Konzern mit knapp 10.000 Beschäftigten an seinen 26 Jahre jüngeren Nachfolger Alexander von Witzleben. Mit dem ehemaligen CDU-Ministerpräsidenten, der 1991 nach seinem Rücktritt in Stuttgart den Job in Jena antrat, verliert die Industrie in den neuen Ländern einen schillernden Frontmann.

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Cognex Introduces New High-Performance Frame Grabbers

ROSEMONT, Ill. & NATICK, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 3, 2003–Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ:CGNX – News), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems and sensors, today unveils the MVS-8500 Series of frame grabbers at the International Robots & Vision Show. The new MVS-8500 Series is designed to support next generation high-speed analog cameras that use the latest progressive scan CCD sensor technology.

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