Adept Technology Launches On-Line Collaborative Engineering Tool; Mechanism Modeling System Reduces Engineering Time.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001 Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , fiber optic and semiconductor industries, today announced the launch of an e-catalog and e-commerce site for Adept SmartModules at www.adept.com. The Adept Performance Analyzer analyzer /ana·ly·zer/ (an´ah-li?zer) 1. a Nicol prism attached to a polarizing apparatus which extinguishes the ray of light polarized by the polarizer. 2. , included in the e-catalog, is an on-line tool that automates the analysis and selection of specific configurations and modules. This unique on-line collaborative engineering tool will reduce engineering time and expense by providing detailed design life, cost and performance data for specific applications, previously available only with tedious manual calculations. "Adept's analyzer is the first on-line tool that allows engineers and designers to identify and select the optimum mechanical configuration, design life and pricing for individual applications," said Joe Campbell, vice president of marketing for Adept Technology. "The Adept Performance Analyzer slashes engineering time up to 75%, and gives engineers the ability to quickly validate To prove something to be sound or logical. Also to certify conformance to a standard. Contrast with "verify," which means to prove something to be correct. For example, data entry validity checking determines whether the data make sense (numbers fall within a range, numeric data multiple configurations to improve their system designs." SmartModules E-catalog allows customers to select one of 18 primary configurations, controller options and specific module sizes and then review payload (1) Refers to the "actual data" in a packet or file minus all headers attached for transport and minus all descriptive meta-data. In a network packet, headers are appended to the payload for transport and then discarded at their destination. capacity and system pricing. For typical, high-volume configurations, the customer can then enter the actual payload, mounting location and start and stop locations for the primary motion. The Performance Analyzer then returns detailed performance data including cycle time, maximum speed and acceleration, and design life. Engineers can then easily evaluate various cost/work envelope/design life/cycle time scenarios from over 2500 SmartModules configurations. Once a specific SmartModules configuration has been selected, the system can be ordered online or a request for quote (RFQ RFQ Request For Quote RFQ Request For Quotation RFQ Request for Qualifications (part of a potential client's preliminary selection process) RFQ Radio Frequency Quadrupole (accelerator technology) ) can be generated. 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. Note to Editors: The Adept logo is a registered trademark of Adept Technology, Inc. Adept and Adept SmartModules are trademarks of Adept Technology. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies. |
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