Mindready Deploys Revolutionary Automated Active Alignment Platforms
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands--Oct. 1, 2001-- MindreadyMindready Introduces Next-Generation, Fully Integrated Automation
Solution Translating Into Better Yield, Reduced Costs and
Faster Time-to-Market
Mindready Solutions Inc., a leading supplier of real-time communications, manufacturing automation and test engineering solutions for the telecommunications, automotive and aerospace industries, today announced the availability of fully integrated innovative active alignment automation solutions that will allow optical component manufacturers to address accuracy assembly requirements more efficiently and reduce overall test and automation costs significantly.
Mindready, a pioneer in developing automated active alignment solutions for the optoelectronics industry, struck a decisive blow with its next-generation sophisticated fully integrated automation solutions. By combining its unique expertise in the development of powerful nanopositionning, robot handling and artificial vision platforms to its hardware and software integration capabilities, Mindready allows customers to reach unparalleled precision for the assembly of multiple component optical devices.
Mindready has always been committed to providing its customers with innovative solutions that meet the highest standards of quality and precision control for assembling and testing optical components. The major alignment challenge faced by assembly engineers today is to optimize desired measurements for the assembly of high-end optoelectronics modules. Precise positioning of optical components is therefore crucial in the fiber-optic assembly industry and requires sophisticated technology to handle alignment and bonding operations. The great advantage of using automated active alignment is the significantly increased assembly yield, throughput, and decrease in operators' training time and footprint requirements, therefore resulting in major cost savings. Mindready offers today such a flexible range of automated active alignment solutions, from semi-automatic to fully automatic integrated state-of-the-art software-assisted automation platforms, that allow customers to increase yield by at least 30%, quadruple throughput, and reduce operators' training from 9 months to 2 weeks.
Mindready has developed an in-depth know-how in integrating third-party instruments and hardware into complex test and automation platforms, designed according to customer's specifications. Mindready combines its test and automation capabilities by integrating PXI platforms that allow synchronization between motion, vision and nanopositioning control and high-speed communication between instrumentation and control.
Mindready will be presenting its capabilities in active alignment through several special demos on its automatic alignment platforms (automatic alignment of lenses and fibers) at the ECOC Show in Amsterdam, Booth # 2196.
"We are very proud of Mindready's ability to develop next generation automated active alignment solutions," said Tom Poitras, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Mindready. "Our advanced design and engineering expertise allowed us to come up with sophisticated state-of-the-art software-assisted automation platforms that revolutionize the fiber-optics industry high-precision standards in the optimal assembly of optical components. We are present at the ECOC Show to introduce our unique capabilities in developing leading edge technology fully-integrated solutions and demonstrate how Mindready is the expert to deal with for a customized manufacturing automation approach."