Adept Technology to Host New Fiber Optic Industry Conference; Carlisle, Baggs and Konezny to Speak On Fiber Automation Issues and Solutions.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)--Aug. 6, 2001 Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the fiber optic, telecommunications and semiconductor industries, today announced it will host the Adept Fiber Optic Assembly Conference in Livermore, Calif. on Sept. 13th, 2001. Keynote speakers Brian Carlisle, chairman and chief executive officer of Adept Technology, Inc., Joseph Baggs, chief executive officer of Optical Process Automation Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of JDS Uniphase JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU) NASDAQ: JDSU is a company that manufactures and designs products for fiber optic communication and test equipment. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA. Corp., and Greg Konezny, vice president of U.S. Bancorp  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. Piper Jaffray Piper Jaffray & Co. (NYSE: PJC), often shortened to just Piper Jaffray or PiperJaffray, is a U.S. middle-market investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a focused on delivering financial advice, investment products and transaction execution , will discuss the economic impact of automation on fiber business performance, automation strategies for high-performance photonics manufacturing, key industry trends and issues and the latest advances in fiber optic assembly automation. "This unique forum will give automation and photonics professionals an excellent opportunity to learn about the latest fiber optic assembly advances, including semi-automatic and fully automated fiber assembly solutions, from the leading industry experts," noted Carlisle. "The conference will focus on practical solutions for photonics manufacturers to ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale time-to-volume, plan for capacity and lower unit costs." The Adept Fiber Optic Assembly Conference will be held in Pleasanton and Livermore, Calif. on Sept. 13th, 2001 and will offer attendees unique insights and perspectives on the direction of fiber optic automation. The conference will conclude with a tour of Adept's new technology center in Livermore, Calif. and demonstrations of photonic device assembly systems ranging from bench-top to fully automated assembly solutions, which use epoxy bonding and laser welding Laser welding Welding with a laser beam. The primary apparatus is the continuous-wave, convectively cooled CO2 laser with either oscillator/amplifier (gaussian output beam) or unstable resonator (hollows output beam) optics. processes. Following the conference Adept will be hosting a workshop sponsored by the Optoelectronic Assembly Group of NEMI NEMI National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative NEMI National Environmental Methods Index at the Adept Livermore facility on Friday, Sept. 14th. The workshop for both end users and equipment developers is intended to generate a requirements document and to provide a forum to share ideas for a fiber-handling cassette to be proposed as an industry standard. For more information on the conference and workshop contact Adept Technology at 408/432-0888. 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, 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. 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. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies. |
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