Adept Technology and ABB Flexible Automation Enter Long Term Strategic Partnership.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 9, 1999-- Alliance Leverages Adept & ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s Expertise to Develop High Speed Small Parts Packaging and Handling Systems Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), a leading supplier of factory automation products, today announced an alliance with ABB Flexible Automation Inc. to jointly market high speed small parts packaging and handling solutions for the food and consumer products industries. The partnership will leverage Adept's motion control and vision guidance products including AdeptMotion VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. controllers and AdeptVision VXL VXL Voxel (volume pixels) VXL Vision something Libraries systems, and ABB's new FlexPicker robot, a high-speed picker robot, to develop a new flexible product packaging and handling solution. "This strategic partnership will give manufacturers a faster, more efficient, and more flexible packaging solution," said Charlie Duncheon, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Adept Technology. "AdeptVision and motion controls combined with ABB's FlexPicker will be able to handle 120 picks per minute corresponding to a cycle time of 0.5 seconds, faster than any conventional system on today's market." Under the partnership Adept will offer ABB and Adept integrators the state-of-the-art AdeptVision VXL guidance system and AdeptMotion VME controllers that when combined with ABB's FlexPicker robot will deliver a revolutionary high-speed packaging and material handling solution. Adept Technology has been a world leader in guidance vision and 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. for over fifteen years. The AdeptVision VXL vision system is the quickest, most robust machine guidance vision system on the market. It includes the grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in patent pending ObjectFinder(TM) vision tool optimized for robot guidance and flexible feeding applications. ObjectFinder is the only vision tool able to locate overlapping or partially out-of-view parts, with full 360 degree rotation on moving conveyors. AdeptMotion VME controllers offer advanced motion features combined with machine vision, conveyor tracking, force sensing, and AdeptWindows PC software. Kinematic kin·e·mat·ics n. (used with a sing. verb) The branch of mechanics that studies the motion of a body or a system of bodies without consideration given to its mass or the forces acting on it. modules allow simple programming of complex mechanisms while supporting tool offsets, world coordinates, and other advanced robot functions. Multiple robots can be coordinated from one controller. All AdeptMotion controls support Adept's most advanced options including AIM, vision, and force. The FlexPicker, the world's fastest pick and place robot, was designed to solve the problem of monotonous picking and packing tasks for a wide range of products. It can accurately place products at thousands of parts per minute and is ideal for any application requiring pick and place speed and accuracy. Adept designs and manufactures intelligent automation hardware and software products for manufacturers in the electronics, appliances, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, food processing Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for consumption by humans or animals. The food processing industry utilises these processes. , 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 worldwide web site http://www.adept.com. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including but not limited to, the potential fluctuations in the company's quarterly and annual results of operations; the cyclicality of capital spending capital spending Spending for long-term assets such as factories, equipment, machinery, and buildings that permits the production of more goods and services in future years. of the company's customers; the company's dependence on the continued growth of the intelligent automation market; the risks associated with sole or single sources of supply and lengthy procurement lead times The interval in months between the initiation of procurement action and receipt into the supply system of the production model (excludes prototypes) purchased as the result of such actions. It is composed of two elements, production lead time and administrative lead time. ; the company's highly competitive industry; and rapid technological change within the company's industry. For a further discussion of risk factors relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the company's business, see the company's Form 10Q for the quarter ended December 26, 1998, and the company's annual report on Form 10K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1998, including the discussion in Management's Discussion and Analysis Management's discussion and analysis (MD&A) A report from management to shareholders that accompanies the firm's financial statements in the annual report. It explains the period's financial results and enables management to discuss topics that may not be apparent in the financial of Financial Condition and Results of Operations filed as an exhibit thereto, filed on September 28, 1998. Note to Editors: The Adept logo is a registered trademark of Adept Technology, Inc. Adept, AdeptMotion, AdeptVision, AdeptWindows, AIM and ObjectFinder are trademarks of Adept Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies. |
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