Product Marketing

Flexible Feeding Solutions

Adept Technology, Inc.

NASDAQ: ADEP

Founded in 1983 – Silicon Valley

Over 57,000 systems installed

$57M Annual Sales / 175 employees

Reducing Global Cost of Manufacturing

Operations by Providing High Performance

Robots and Pre-Engineered Platforms

World Leader Vision-Guided Conveyor Tracking

Industrial Robots

Global Delivery Model with Operations in 9

Countries and 200 Partners

Global Delivery and Support

Over 57,000 systems installed backed by 24/7 support

DistributorsTechnical CentersSales

18,70023,200

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1,700

Intelligent Hand-Eye Coordination

“Hard tooled”Conventional part feeders

Adept Technology Simplifies Flexible Feeding & Reduces Cost

Market Drivers

Existing capabilities reaching plateau

High speed applications for flexibility of custom or traditional machinery

Total cost of integration and ownership for new applications

Short product life cycles

Better interaction with people and robotics

Collaborative, Teaching without Programming

Increasing product variations,mass customization

Vertical applications and solutions focus

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Adept’s Portfolio

ACE Operator Interface & ACE PackXpertFlexible Automation Solutions (Adept PAC, OctoMation Cells, etc.)

SCARA, Articulated, Cartesian, and Delta Robots

Conevyor-Tracking SystemVision-Guidance and Inspection System (ACE AdeptSight)

Mobile RobotsFlexible Feeding Solutions(Adept AnyFeeder)

FoundationSmartVision EXSmartController CX Teach PendanteV+/ Adept ACE Camera KitsePLC

Technology Focused on Variability

Managing production Variability key enabling technology

High Speed Robotics

Vision Tracking & Inspection

CollaborationApplication Software

Gripping Solutions

Flexible Feeding

Part Feeding Requirements and Challenges

Large global install base of flexible feeding systems

Flexibility and Agility• Leveraging the ability for automation and labor to work

cooperatively• Quickly adapt to addressing competitive offerings• Increase speed to market to support growth

Minimize Costs • Eliminate manual intensive work• Increase accuracy/eliminate errors to reduce fines• Improve lead times

Increased Productivity• Predictable production by eliminating variability• Maximizing throughput per square foot of production space• Increases Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) through the

implementation of flexible automation

Adept Solution

Adept’s Focus for Flexible Feeding

Feeder - Vision - Robot

Coordination

“The vision-guided robot is the key element in this

type of system. It’s principal function is the

acquisition, orientation, and placement of parts

to a target matrix or assembly fixture.”

- Bud Ross, RPM Flex Feeders

Why Adept for Part Feeding Applications?

High-throughput: Seamless integration of AnyFeeder, Robots, and ACE

software for Vision-guided flexible feeding solution

Flexibility: Feed bulk parts of various shapes, colors, textures, and materials

with fast product changeovers

Repeatability: Part feeding jobs demand high consistency and Adept offers

portfolio of robots with high repeatability

Precision: Cost of poor quality is high and robots need to work with high

accuracy; Adept portfolio is designed for high precision jobs

Foot print efficiency: Adept system provides a high foot print efficiency

maximizing the work envelope

Safety: Part feeding jobs can be hazardous. Adept adheres to all the safety

regulations to ensure the safety of operators

Flexible Feeding Components

Expectation vs. Reality

“Flexible parts feeding is a lot like education

spending. Most folks want only the best schools and

the best teachers for their children. But, when it

comes time to pay the piper, the enthusiasm quickly

evaporates.”

- John Sprovieri,

Senior Editor, Assembly Magazine

Major Components

Method of presenting parts (AnyFeeder)

Method to locate and recognize parts (Vision)

Method of picking and placing parts (Robot)

Method of programming the feeding solution (Software)

ACE AdeptSightAdept AnyFeed Adept Robot

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Application Software

Adept AnyFeeder

“The Adept AnyFeeder is a compact,

programmable part feeder to separate and flip

parts without the use of conveyor-belts or

recirculation“

Abilities:

• Variety of parts

• Part changeovers quickly and easily

• Process multiple parts simultaneously

Key Features: Adept AnyFeeder

Driven by 2 brushlessservo motors

Integrated bulk part feeder

Parallel or serial communication

Backlight drawer

Stainless steel design

Quick change feed surfaces

Anti-static or textured feed surfaces

Fast feed and flip with excellent control due to servos

Internal vibration damping

Benefits of Adept AnyFeeder

Adept ACE™ software to deploy your applications through a user-friendly

interface

High flexibility for production runs with high mix of parts and short productions

cycles

Brushless servo-drives and conveyor-less design feed parts without part jams

Integrated backlight option for advanced vision guidance capabilities

The feed surface option enables feeding parts with different sizes, colors, or

shapes

Feeds a variety of parts with no fixturing requirement

Vision-Guidance Integration

AdeptSight™ is intelligent software designed to perform

vision guidance and inspection applications through a

single interface

• Single point of control for vision-guidance applications

• Wizard-based user-friendly interface to calibrate and teach

the robots

• Supports “vision-on-the-fly”

• High-speed and high-quality inspection of parts with

tight tolerances

Robot Integration

The Adept SmartController and ACE software is capable of

integrating any of the robots with Adept AnyFeeder:

• SCARA

• Cartesian

• 6-Axis

• Hybrid / Custom

ACE Software Integration

Identify, calibrate, teach, and manage AnyFeeder, robot, and vision

through a single interface

Rapid deployment of applications with multiple robots for high-

throughputs, multiple AnyFeeders to handle multiple parts, and

multiple cameras for vision-guidance and inspection

PLC Integration

ePLC software from Adept enables flexible feeding

solution to be integrated with Allen Bradley’s PLC

integration

Integration enables users to program and manage

AnyFeeder and robot through Allen Bradley’s PLC

Flexible Feeding Success Story

Philips (Netherlands)

Challenge

• Assembling products that nobody knows for sure

how they will look and work in the future

• flexible automation components from one source

• Multiple small lines for maximizing throughput,

flexibility, and availability

Solution

• 50 AnyFeeder and 140 Robots (SCARA and

Articulated)

• ACE software to seamlessly integrate the system

with vision-guidance capabilities

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