(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- The high-performance, fixed-mount barcode reader, DataMan 500, from Cognex is now available for factory automation applications. DataMan 500 is the first ID reader to be powered by a proprietary vision chip, Cognex VSoC. The chip enables DataMan 500 to have unmatched barcode reading performance and an ease of use not found in other image-based or laser systems available today.

“VSoC has given us a performance advantage that other readers just cannot match,” says Carl Gerst, vice president and business unit manager for Cognex Industrial ID. “DataMan 500 reads barcodes at twice the speed of other readers and reads codes so well that it doesn’t have to be positioned optimally to achieve high read rates. One look at this product will change your idea of what barcode readers can do.”

DataMan 500 offers the same powerful and proven 1D Max and 2D Max code reading technology found in other DataMan products for unmatched read rates on even the most difficult 1-D barcodes and 2-D matrix codes.

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