(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex has announced its next-generation DataMan hand-held industrial ID scanner, the DataMan 8000 Series. The rugged scanner is designed for the factory floor and offers the industry’s most advanced code-reading technology, IDMax, for reading 1-D and 2-D codes regardless of size, quality, printing method, or surface. The DataMan 8000 Series also offers two new innovations: modular communications (including Ethernet) and liquid lens variable focus technology.

“The DataMan 8000 Series represents a true breakthrough for industrial hand-held readers,” says Carl Gerst, business unit manager for ID Products. “In addition to its powerful code-reading capability and rugged design, the DataMan 8000 Series communicates easily with factory networks and ERP systems for real-time traceability, and the automatic variable focus enables operators to use the system close up for very small 2-D data matrix direct-part marks and at a distance to read longer 1-D bar codes.”

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