>I can personally confirm off the top of my head that Proctor & Gamble, Revlon, Duracell, Mars Candy, Bausch & Lomb, Pfizer, Gilead Sciences, Boehringer Ingelheim (and more) use Cognex cameras in their product packaging lines.

>I tried on more than one occasion to put forward PC-based systems, but the customers wanted the smart cameras.

Oh, all those that you listed also use PC-based systems. I know because all of them are also customers of ours.