CyberOptics’ QX500™ Named Best North American Product by Global Technology Awards

CyberOptics Corporation (NASDAQ: CYBE) announces that it has been awarded a Global Technology Award in the category of Best North American Product for its QX500™ AOI System. The award was presented to Chris Rockwell, Director of Sales – Americas, during a Tuesday, October 26, 2010 ceremony that took place during SMTA International at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, FL.

CyberOptics’ innovative QX500™ AOI system is designed with a unique image acquisition solution – Strobed Inspection Module (SIM), bringing forth yet another industry-leading, high-speed inspection solution matched with exceptional defect coverage and an extremely low false failure rate. The introduction of strobed white lighting in the QX500™ makes it the only AOI system to provide ‘on-the-fly’ area-scanning inspection at an incredible 200 cm²/sec, setting it apart from other conventional AOI systems. The QX500™ dual fixed angle lighting provides superb image quality for advanced automated inspection of solder and lead defects, presence and position, correct part, and polarity for inspection down to 01005 components.