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Company News Highlights 2001 p4 of 13:

• FAA orders BodySearch x-ray inspection systems
  NOVEMBER 1--American Science and Engineering Inc. (AS&E; Billerica, MA; www.as-e.com) has received an order for five BodySearch x-ray inspection systems from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
• Rapiscan gets FAA order for body-scanning systems
  OCTOBER 30--Rapiscan Security Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of OSI Systems Inc. (Hawthorne, CA; www.rapiscan.com) that provides security solutions to airports, customs facilities, correctional facilities, and governments, has been awarded by the FAA an order for five Secure 1000 body-scanning systems.
• Epson Robots makes factory automation more affordable
  OCTOBER 29--Epson Factory Automation/Robotics (Carson, CA) is offering a pricing plan that lowers the cost of robot automation.
• Norske Skog selects Cognex web-inspection system
  OCTOBER 26--Cognex Corp. (Natick, MA; www.cognex.com), supplier of machine-vision systems, announced that Norske Skog, a supplier of newsprint, has integrated two Cognex SmartView ICN web-inspection systems at its Saugbrugs mill in Halden, Norway.
• StockerYale names new executive vice president and CEO
  OCTOBER 26--StockerYale Inc. (Salem, NH; www.stockeryale.com), a provider of phase masks, specialty optical fiber, and specialized illumination products, has named Francis J. O'Brien executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective October 29, 2001.
• Adept Technology and JDS Uniphase form automation alliance
  OCTOBER 24--Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.adept.com) and JDS Uniphase Corp. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; www.jdsuniphase.com) have signed definitive agreements to enter into an automation-development alliance for optical-component and module manufacturing.
• Coreco reports third-quarter results
  OCTOBER 24--Coreco (Montreal, Canada;www.imaging.com) has reported revenues of US$6 million for the third quarter, compared with US$7.2 million in the same quarter of 2000. Net earnings from operations amounted to US$505,046 (US$0.07/share) versus US$689,442 (US$0.09/share) last year.
• Fakespace Systems and SGI provide visualization facility for Murphy Oil Company
  OCTOBER 23--Fakespace Systems Inc. (Kitchener, Ont., Canada; www.fakespacesystems.com) and SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.; Mountain View, CA; www.sgi.com) have provided a state-of-the-art visualization system to Murphy Oil Company Ltd. (Calgary, Canada), a division of Murphy Oil Corp.
• Stemmer Imaging promotes vice president
  OCTOBER 18--Machine-vision-component distributor Stemmer Imaging GmbH (Puchheim, Germany; www.stemmer-imaging.de) has promoted Christof Zollitsch to chief technical officer.
• Oakland airport to install face scanner
  OCTOBER 18--Oakland International Airport is taking a first step toward being able to scan crowds for terrorists with the installation of face-scanning technology. Alameda County, where Oakland is located, completed the implementation of a face-scanning system three months ago in the Oakland city jail.

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