Cognex Corporation to announce third-quarter earnings

OCTOBER 6--Cognex Corporation (Natick, MA) will release earnings for the third quarter of 2004 on Monday, October 18, 2004, after the market closes and will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. eastern time that same day. The telephone number for the live call is 800-770-5589 (or 973-935-2039 if outside the United States). A replay will begin at approximately 7:00 p.m. eastern time on Monday, October 18, 2004 and will run continuously for 72 hours. The telephone number for the replay is 877-519-4471 (or 973-341-3080 if outside the United States) and the access code is 5230486. Internet users can listen to a real-time audio broadcast of the conference call as well as an archive of the call on Cognex's Web site at www.cognex.com/investor/default.asp.

Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision systems. The company is a leader in the machine-vision industry, having shipped more than 225,000 vision systems, representing more than $1.6 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981.