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LaserUT™ Business Purchased from Lockheed Martin’s Aeronautics Company Expands PaR Systems Aerospace NDI Product Line
12/18/2007
Saint Paul/Minneapolis, MN (December 18, 2007) – PaR Systems, Inc. announces that a purchase agreement has been signed with Lockheed Martin to acquire their LaserUT business. This acquisition adds the LaserUT product line to PaR Systems’ extensive automation equipment platforms. PaR is acquiring the intellectual property rights for this product line through a license agreement and has hired necessary personnel and established the primary relationships with key suppliers to become the provider of systems and service for LaserUT products. PaR will support all of Lockheed Martin’s LaserUT system needs and pursue requests from other Aerospace customers who have expressed interest in purchasing the LaserUT non-destructive composite inspection technology.
PaR Systems provided the automation and motion control system for the initial LaserUT systems installed for Lockheed Martin in their Ft. Worth, Texas facility. With this new agreement announced today, PaR has overall support responsibility for these installed systems, in addition to providing future enhancements. PaR Systems has a strong reputation of providing specific automation applications including drilling, milling and waterjet cutting, in addition to non-destructive inspection and other specialty applications, for Aerospace customers.
LaserUT systems are designed for rapid throughput and inspection of composite parts with complex geometries providing advantages for certain Aerospace, and other industry, inspection applications. The addition of this product line to PaR’s broad automation portfolio marks another major step in our strategy of adding specialty products to meet the needs of demanding customers.
PaR Systems provides automation solutions through specialized robotics, material handling, and crane equipment applications to improve customer quality, safety and productivity. Headquartered in Shoreview, Minnesota, PaR Systems serves a broad range of industries including aerospace, military, government, laboratory, marine, manufacturing, medical, research, semiconductor, and food and beverage. Visit www.par.com to review our full capabilities.
Headquartered in Bethesda, MD and employing about 140,000 men and women worldwide, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT - News) is a premier systems integrator principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services. Lockheed Martin’s core markets are Defense and Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Systems and Information Technology. For more information on Lockheed Martin’s capabilities, customers, and products, visit www.lockheedmartin.com.
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MINIFLASH™-Capper Automates Tube Capping/Uncapping Processes
01/11/2007
Saint Paul, Minn. (January 11, 2007) – PaR Systems, Inc. announces the sale of the SSi Robotics benchtop MINIFLASH-Capper, which easily automates tube capping and uncapping processes common in the lab automation industry. The patent pending MINIFLASH-Capper system accepts tubes and caps in bulk form or in tube-racks. The system is scheduled for delivery and installation in February 2007.
The MINIFLASH-Capper performs cap feeding and orienting, robotic pick-and-place of the caps onto the tubes, and cap twist-on assembly. Torque values are tightly controlled and sensors automatically detect missing tubes. A simple to use keypad accepts user input and production run parameters. The system sits on a tabletop and only requires standard power and air. The MINIFLASH-Capper is well suited for clinical laboratory-based processes (blood, urine and tissue sample handling), medical, pharmaceutical and biotech applications involving reagent handling.
The control software is extremely adaptable and easy-to-use while interfacing with your LIMS, database and network systems. ‘Smart’, real-time flexibility enables the system to respond to sensor input and optimize instrument cycle time, logging data each step of the way. The use of industrial robots gives you unsurpassed accuracy, flexilibty and reliability. Additional options include aseptic/cleanliness rating, controlled hot/cold environment, tube-rack handling and parallel capping for increased throughput.
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MINIFLASH™ Selected by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
01/02/2007
Saint Paul, Minn. (January 2, 2007) – PaR Systems, Inc. announces that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has purchased the SSi Robotics benchtop MINIFLASH. The MINIFLASH (MINI Flexible Laboratory Automation System Handler) will be delivered in its tube-labeler configuration. The system will print 1 x 1.5 inch cryogenic-compatible labels and apply them (wrap-around style) to Sarstedt 92.730.106 tubes. The system will be configured for tube-rack input and output and is scheduled for delivery and installation in February 2007.
Label content information is easily entered into the system via an Excel spreadsheet. The MINIFLASH software is tailored specifically to meet the appropriate text and barcode fields of the CDC. Its primary operation is to receive tubes and label them in a robust, high throughput, automated work cell. To operate the MINIFLASH, tube-racks are manually loaded into the system. The system then automatically cycles through three entire tube-racks, labeling each of the tubes and placing them into the same position from which they were acquired. Once the three tube-racks are processed, an indicator signal alerts the lab technician to remove the racks.
The MINIFLASH will improve throughput, reduce errors and improve label quality. Operators will be relieved of this manual task enabling them to focus on more meaningful work. The MINIFLASH supplied to CDC will include advanced features to optimize label-to-tube adherence, a crucial attribute since the labeled tubes may be stored for decades in liquid nitrogen vapor. The system can be upgraded in the future to perform tube-capping, filling, scanning, sorting and rack-handling, as may be required by the CDC.
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