Managing Automation - January 2009 - (Page 49) can be used to model realistic transportation environments. Users, for example, can describe capacity measures on vehicles, pickup and delivery time windows, driver rest requirements, availability calendars for sites, and multiple transportation modes. Using such criteria, users can ask strategic questions about their transportation network. Transportation Analyst 2.0 also lets users analyze a carrier’s carbon emission levels, helping to create a more sustainable supply chain. www.managingautomation.com/ILOG ADEPT TECHNOLOGY INC. ROBOTS FOR SOLAR APPS dept Technology recently announced its Adept Solaris solar product line of robots designed specifically for manufacturers in the solar industry. The Adept Solaris products integrate solar wafer cell handling and inspection capabilities within a common application platform that eases application development and improves production efficiency, the company said. Advanced vision sensing and inspection technology, coupled with Adept’s high-speed and precise robot, controls, and software products, is intended to help manufacturers achieve higher yields, increased plant throughput, quicker integration, and minimal cell breakage, while reducing the per-watt cost in solar energy equipment manufacturing. The Adept Solaris line, due early next year, incorporates Adept’s existing product set with advanced vision sensing and inspection technology from LMI Technologies. The line includes the Adept Quattro s650 robot, AdeptSight 2.0 PC-based software, and the compact Adept Cobra s600 SCARA robot. www.managingautomation.com/Adept on supplier performance, operations/certification, manufacturing excellence, and ISO 9000 management to users who monitor purchasing, supplier quality, engineering, and operations. The QI dashboards present high-level information to help users A IQS QUALITY MANAGEMENT DASHBOARDS B etting that the pursuit of product quality is encompassing more and more departments within manufacturing organizations, IQS has released its QI: Quality Intelligence software, a scorecard and dashboard tool that delivers information spot problems early and manage exceptions. It also provides drill-down capabilities, based on an underlying IQS enterprise quality database, allowing for deeper inspection of specific situations. The QI d ata is delivered to users’ desktops in real time and is synchronized across departments and factories, the company said. www.managingautomation.com/IQS http://www.managingautomation.com/ILOG http://www.managingautomation.com/Adept http://www.managingautomation.com/IQS http://www.hannovermesse.com
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