Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc. Contracts BrainTech
21 October 1999
Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc. Contracts BrainTech To Undertake Feasibility Study
NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia---Oct. 20, 1999--BrainTech Inc. (OTCBB:BNTI), announced today that it has been granted a Feasibility Contract by Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc., known as CAPTIN.Toyota Inc. was the first Japanese automobile company to open a major manufacturing facility in Canada. Their factory, which is situated in Delta, British Columbia, manufactures approximately 1,000,000 aluminum alloy wheels per year. CAPTIN supplies wheels to Toyota manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States and Japan. Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc., has contracted BrainTech to study the feasibility for automatic identification for various types of wheels, as well as inspection of various physical parameters of individual wheels.
It is anticipated that utilizing BNTI's BrainTron classifier and machine vision technology for the identification of various wheels will allow CAPTIN to give advanced instructions to various processing stations, by predicting a certain type of wheel and adjusting their parameters accordingly. This is intended to reduce mistakes and increase the overall efficiency of the manufacturing process. In addition to the identification of wheels, BrainTech will also investigate the feasibility of extracting other features from wheels such as surface finish, color, dimensions etc. for the purposes of inspection and quality control.
About Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc.
In 1985, Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc., known as CAPTIN, began producing aluminum alloy wheels in Delta, British Columbia. By 1987, this $20 million investment had reached its targeted maximum output of 240,000 wheels annually. A $26 million expansion project completed during 1989 increased annual output to over 480,000. An additional expansion in the early 1990s brought total investment to about $96 million, and production capacity to over 700,000 wheels yearly. Presently the factory produces approximately 1,000,000 wheels annually and is gearing up its systems to increase production further. CAPTIN is an important supplier of wheels to Toyota manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States and Japan.
About BrainTech Inc.
BrainTech specializes in the design, development and commercialization of advanced pattern recognition technologies and products. Founded in 1994, the company builds highly effective, adaptive pattern matching recognition systems based on its patented technologies. BrainTech is a public trading company listed on the OTC Bulletin Board, and trades under the symbol BNTI. For more information, visit http://www.bnti.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OWEN JONES CEO, DIRECTOR
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