CyberOptics Announces Initial Order For New Automated Optical Inspection System.Business Editors & Technology Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2000 CyberOptics Corporation (Nasdaq NMS See NetWare Management System. :CYBE) today announced it has received the initial order for its new KS 100 post-placement inspection system, which inspects SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management circuit boards before all components are soldered to the board in the reflow oven A reflow oven is a machine used primarily for reflow soldering of surface mount electronic components to printed circuit boards. Types of Reflow Ovens Infrared and Convection Ovens . The KS100 is based on a breakthrough automated optical inspection Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) is an automated visual inspection of PCB(or LCD,transistor manufacture) where a camera autonomously scans the device under test for both catastrophic failure (eg. missing component) and quality defects (eg. technology (AOI AOI Area Of Interest AOI Automated Optical Inspection AOI Art of Illusion (3D modeling software) AOI Associated Oregon Industries AOI Angle Of Incidence AOI Age of Innocence (David Hamilton book, also a band) ), called Statistical Appearance Modeling. The Company obtained this technology through its 1999 acquisition of Kestra, Ltd. This system, which was ordered by a U.S. electronic manufacturing services (EMS or contract manufacturing) company, will be delivered in May. The Company said it anticipates additional KS 100 system orders in this year's second quarter from multiple EMS and 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 companies. In a related development, the Company said the KS 100 recently passed the challenging repeatability and accuracy testing of a large U.S.-based electronics manufacturer. The Company added that as far as it knows, CyberOptics is the only supplier of AOI systems to pass this OEM's rigorous qualification testing. Steven K. Case, chairman, said this initial KS-100 order is an extremely promising development, since it marks the Company's entry into a new area of process inspection on the SMT assembly line. "CyberOptics has developed industry-leading positions in non-contact solder paste Solder paste (or solder cream) is a mix of small solder particles and flux. It is used extensively in the automated soldering processes wave soldering and reflow soldering. inspection systems and laser alignment sensors for robotic pick-and-place equipment. The KS-100 moves us into post-placement inspection, and we expect to use our Statistical Appearance Modeling technology for developing additional inspection systems. Over the next few years, it is our goal to provide differentiated tools for yield and through-put enhancement for virtually every stage of the SMT circuit board assembly process." During its development and beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the process, Statistical Appearance Modeling technology has proven to be highly accurate, with a false call rate approximately 10 times lower than that of conventional AOI systems. Moreover, unlike conventional AOI systems, the KS 100 is highly user-friendly and can be programmed by line operators without the need of costly vision experts. CyberOptics Corporation is an optical technology leader that enables the global electronics industry to meet the rigorous quality demands of virtually any electronic application requiring quality printed circuit boards. Through customer-focused product development and strategic acquisitions, CyberOptics provides a growing range of inspection, alignment and measurement solutions for the SMT electronic assembly equipment and semiconductor fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. equipment markets. Statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance in 2000 are forward-looking and therefore involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the current scrutiny by regulatory bodies of accounting treatment of acquired in-process R&D, market conditions in the global electronics industry, competitive technologies, the commercial success of the KS 100 and other new products, and other factors set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission |
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