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Cognex InSight: Answers to FAQs

What Is Cognex InSight?

Cognex InSight is a family of vision systems typically used on the factory floor to identify, inspect, and guide parts. Depending on the model, In-Sight cameras offer high-resolution and high-speed built into a rugged body capable of holding up to demanding industrial applications with pinpoint accuracy.

How to Find the IP Address of a Cognex InSight Vision System

New Cognex vision systems have DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) enabled. This means your camera will listen for a DHCP server to assign it an address. However, if this does not happen automatically the Cognex In-Sight camera will default to a Link-Local IP address in the 169.254.xxx.xxx range.

Cognex InSight Camera from AX Control stock.
Cognex Vision System
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Machine Vision is Improving Manufacturing Robotics

Machine vision can create a faster, more flexible throughput on your factory floor.

Why consider Insight 2000 Cognex or the Insight 8000 Cognex camera?

As sophisticated technologies are introduced into the manufacturing landscape, those who want to include robotics as part of their production line are looking for ways to increase the machine’s functionality, flexibility, and efficiency.  This often means manufacturers are adding machine vision capability to their robotics to meet these goals.  Cognex cameras are ideally designed for use as vision sensors.

Insight Cognex 2000 is ideal for use as a vision sensor.
The InSight Cognex 2000 camera

How machine vision works

For most of their existence, robotics have used sensors, PLCs, and coding to create their movements.  But despite what we may have inferred from pop culture references in movies like Terminator or from cartoons, older robots have difficulty picking up and moving small parts, especially parts lacking similarities on all sides, like a screw with a tapering shank connected to a rounded head….or Princess Twilight Sparkle parts.

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