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Company News Highlights 2001 p10 of 13:

• Film manufacturer selects Cognex for web inspection
  JULY 20--Cognex Corp. (Natick, MA; www.cognex.com) has announced that a leading North American producer of high-quality rigid films has integrated three Cognex SmartView web-inspection systems on its manufacturing lines to inspect plastic film for contaminants, gels, holes, and other defects.
• Seiko Instruments USA sells Factory Automation Division
  JULY 16--Seiko Instruments USA (Torrance, CA; www.seiko-instruments-usa.com) has sold its Factory Automation Division to Seiko Epson Corp. and its affiliate Epson America Inc.
• Sky Computers and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency form strategic alliance
  JULY 13--Sky Computers Inc., a subsidiary of Analogic Corp. (Chelmsford, MA; www.skycomputers.com), and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA; an agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence) have entered into a strategic alliance to jointly provide real-time data-processing systems.
• Photon Dynamics to acquire Intelligent Reasoning Systems
  JULY 12-- As the drive for more complex, smaller, lighter, and more-efficient end products increases, there is a need for more advanced-yield-management solutions by original equipment manufacturers, electronicmanufacturing service companies, and high-density interconnect manufacturers.
• Vital Images awarded US patent for user interface
  JULY 9--The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued medical imaging software company Vital Images Inc. (Minneapolis, MN; www.vitalimages.com) pat. #6,219,059--Interactive Control of Voxel Attributes Using Selectable Characteristics.
• IBM develops very fast silcon transistor
  JULY 5--IBM ( www.ibm.com) announced that it has developed a very fast silicon transistor. The company has refined its silicon germanium chip-manufacturing technology to produce transistors that are far thinner than others.
• Coreco Imaging wins European contract
  JULY 3--Coreco Imaging (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.coreco.com) has been awarded its largest contract to date by one of Europe's leading OEM suppliers of machine-vision inspection systems.
• Security Biometrics Inc. to acquire NetFace LLC
  JUNE 29--Security Biometrics Inc. (Vancouver, BC, Canada; www.sigbio.com has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of NetFace LLC for 20 million Security Biometrics Inc. common shares.
• Adept Technology selected to provide fiber-assembly solution
  JUNE 25--Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.adept.com), a manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiberoptics, and semiconductor industries, has signed a $700,000 contract to provide a fully automated fiber-pigtailing workcell to one of the largest photonics manufacturers.
• Stanford Resources topical report examines display interfaces
  JUNE 22--Stanford Resources (San Jose, CA; www.stanfordresources.com, a market-research firm focusing on the global electronic-display industry, has released a new topical report--Display Interfaces: DVI Gathers Momentum.

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