Adept Technology Announces New Motion Controller at Robots & Vision Show.Business/High-Tech Editors Robots & Vision Show 2001 ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Adept SmartController Family Leverages Distributed Control Architecture to Improve Performance and Reduce Form Factor Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiber optic and semiconductor industries, today announced the introduction of the first product offering in a family of new distributed motion and vision controllers, the Adept SmartController, at the Robots & Vision show which opens today in Rosemont, IL. The SmartController distributed network control architecture leverages Adept's SmartAmp technology, drastically reducing form factor and cabling -- up to 70% from Adept's industry leading MV controller family while the distributed processing The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. It started with the first minicomputers. Today, distributed processing is called "distributed computing." See also client/server. architecture improves performance by freeing up 30% more of the processor's resources. "Our customers continue to push us for products with higher performance, best-in-class reliability, and simplified installation, and we are responding with the Adept SmartController," said Joe Campbell, vice president of marketing for Adept Technology. "We have collapsed the industry's most powerful robot and motion controller into the footprint of a shoebox shoe·box n. 1. An oblong box, usually made of cardboard, for holding a pair of shoes. 2. Something resembling or suggestive of such a box, as a plain, rectangular building or a cramped room or dwelling. Noun 1. , and with our FireWire(R) based distributed control architecture, we've slashed the cabling by 70% as well." The first Adept SmartController available is the CS, which comes fully configured for standard applications that do not require vision or conveyor belt conveyor belt One of various devices that provide mechanized movement of material, as in a factory. Conveyor belts are used in industrial applications and also on large farms, in warehousing and freight-handling, and in movement of raw materials. tracking. The SmartController CS is available for shipment today with Adept SmartModule systems. The internally expandable Adept SmartController CX, which will be available Fall 2001, comes with full support for AdeptVision AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. and conveyor belt tracking for sophisticated motion and vision applications. The Adept SmartController series features several high-speed communication interfaces, including Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394, also known as FireWire(R). The IEEE 1394 interface is the backbone of Adept's new distributed controls architecture, initially introduced with Adept SmartModules. All Adept SmartControllers offer known scalability and support for Adept's new IEEE 1394 based digital I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output and general motion expansion modules. The Adept SmartController CS, along with Adept's six axis robot, the AdeptSix 300 and HexSight, high performance machine vision software can be viewed at Adept booth #313 for the duration of the show. Adept Technology designs, manufactures and markets factory automation components and systems for the fiber optic, telecommunications, semiconductor, automotive, food and durable goods durable goods Goods, such as appliances and automobiles, that have a useful life over a number of periods. Firms that produce durable goods are often subject to wide fluctuations in sales and profits. Also called consumer durables. industries throughout the world. Adept's robots, controllers, and software products are used for small parts assembly, material handling and ultra precision process applications. Our intelligent automation product lines include industrial robots An industrial robot is officially defined by ISO[1] as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. , configurable linear modules, flexible feeders, semiconductor process components, nanopositioners, machine controllers for robot mechanisms and other flexible automation equipment, machine vision, systems and software, application software, and simulation software Simulation software is based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually running the program. . Founded in 1983, Adept is America's largest manufacturer of industrial robots. More information is available at www.adept.com. The Adept logo is a registered trademark of Adept Technology, Inc. Adept, AdeptSix, Adept SmartController, Adept SmartModules, AdeptVision AVI and HexSight are trademarks of Adept Technology. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies. |
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