Adept Technology and JOT Automation Group Enter Original Equipment Manufacturing Partnership; Adept Selected By JOT To Provide Robots, Controllers and Machine Vision.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)--Jan. 16, 2001 Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiber optic and semiconductor industries, today announced that JOT Automation Group, headquartered in Oulunsalo, Finland, has selected Adept to provide robotic mechanisms, controllers and machine vision systems as part of an original equipment manufacturing (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) partnership. "We are extremely pleased to partner our world class robotics with JOT Automation's production automation technology," says Jim Repko, vice president of international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. for Adept Technology. "We believe that this relationship will yield the most flexible and cost-effective solutions for their customers." Adept SmartModules, AWC (Association for Women in Computing, San Francisco, CA, www.awc-hq.org) A membership organization, founded in 1978, dedicated to the advancement of women in computing. It publishes newsletters, hosts seminars and annual conferences and recognizes distinguished women in the field with its Controllers and 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. will be integrated into JOT's flexible product platforms applied in the telecommunications and electronic industries for various processes that include assembly, circuit board routing, labeling and testing, as well as packaging of the final product. Typical end users are manufacturers of mobile telephone units and other high-volume consumer and automotive manufacturers. "After years of experience with similar products from a variety of suppliers, we reached the conclusion that Adept Technology offers us the broadest range of capabilities, supporting our ongoing commitment to optimize production planning Production planning The function of a manufacturing enterprise responsible for the efficient planning, scheduling, and coordination of all production activities. and implementation cycles," says Teijo Fabritius, president of JOT Automation. "Adept's ongoing development matches the future needs of JOT and its customers." JOT Automation Group Plc, headquartered in Oulunsalo, Finland, designs, manufactures and markets production automation for the electronics industry worldwide. The group has subsidiaries, partners and representatives in 14 countries. Visit JOT Automation's website at www.jotautomation.com for product and service information. 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 is a trademark of Adept Technology. 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