Adept Technology Names Industry Veteran Mark Bartholomew as Director of Hardware Engineering; Bartholomew Joins Adept to Head Hardware Engineering Department.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)--July 20, 1999-- Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), America's largest manufacturer of industrial robots and a factory automation leader, today announced the appointment of Mark Bartholomew to director of hardware engineering. Bartholomew will assume responsibility for the design of Adept's cell control, motion control and robot guidance hardware. He will report to Rick Casler, vice president of engineering for Adept and will operate from Adept's corporate office in San Jose. "Mark brings to Adept extensive experience in the design and development of high-performance personal computers and workstations -- experience he will leverage as he leads his cross functional team in the design, development and commercialization of our next generation of PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). based robot control Robot control is the theory of how to model and control robots. A simplistic model of a robot is to view it as a collection of links connected by joints. and vision systems," said Rick Casler, vice president of engineering for Adept Technology. Prior to joining Adept, Bartholomew served at Silicon Graphics, Inc. as director of engineering for NT Workstation systems in Mountain View, Calif. He has over 23 years experience in engineering management working for such companies as MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Digital Equipment Corporation and National Semiconductor. Bartholomew holds a bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. .
Adept Technology, Inc., founded in 1983, is America's largest manufacturer of industrial robots. Adept designs and manufactures intelligent automation hardware and software products for manufacturers in the electronics, appliances, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, food processing, and automotive components industries. The company provides a broad, flexible line of software intensive, computer-driven automation products for assembly, material handling and packaging applications. Adept Technology product and service information is available at its world wide web site http://www.adept.com. Note to Editors: The Adept logo is a registered trademark of Adept Technology, Inc. Adept is a trademark of Adept Technology. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies. |
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