Kangnaishi company designs, develops, produces and sells all kinds of products integrating complex machine vision technology, namely 'vision' products. Cognex products include barcode readers, machine vision sensors and machine vision systems, which are widely used in factories, warehouses and distribution centers all over the world. They can guide, measure, detect and identify products and ensure their quality in the process of product production and distribution.

As a leading machine vision company in the world, Cognex has sold more than 900000 sets of vision based products since its establishment in 1981, with a cumulative profit of more than 3.5 billion US dollars. Cornell's modular vision systems division, headquartered in Natick County, Massachusetts, specializes in manufacturing automation and quality assurance machine vision systems for multiple discrete projects.