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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Rockwell Automation (Minneapolis, MN) and Cognex Corp. (Natick, MA) announced they have entered into a letter of intent to form a global relationship.

Aug 31, 1998

Under the proposed relationship, Cognex will acquire the rights to certain technologies of Rockwell Automation's Allen-Bradley machine vision business and will become the preferred global supplier of machine vision products to Rockwell Automation's customers.

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