Sep 6 2010
Owens Design, a global leader in creating and distributing automated systems for semiconductors and hard disk drives and solar photovoltaic industries, has declared the release of the 200th hard disk automation interface for a major OEM in the data storage industry.
The company had partnered with the OEM in order to assist them to cope with various disk managing necessities for disk measurement applications. It was found that Owens has been supplying automated storage platform for this company for more than six years.
The demand for increased data storage has led to the rapid innovation in data storage technology. Hence an ideal data storage platform must facilitate prompt realization of this latest technology and it should be adaptable enough to meet the industry’s requisites, thereby ensuring high operating time with low procurement cost. In order to realize all these necessities and also to maintain a strict dispatch schedule, the industry needs a deeper knowledge of disk automation and also the requirements of a HDD manufacturer.
Bob Fung, Vice President of Engineering for Owens Design, has stated that their company had worked in close association with this OEM client to recognize the elements crucial to their automation technology and then included the distinct automation requisites of the industry. He added that Owens Design had created an automated storage platform that can successfully incorporate their technology with their customer’s industry, thereby assisting them to provide ideal data storage solutions to all HDD peripheral users.
The Owens Design automation platform includes a six- axis adjustable robot with focused end- responders performing various functions like operating the cassettes and effectively managing the clean air. Owens Design has installed the automation platform along with the robot coding. The company offers maintenance assistance and also provides platform promotions periodically.
According to Mark Danna, Vice President of Business Development for Owens Design, their company’s automation technology has helped their customers to concentrate on developing their principal technology and not on the development of an assisting platform. He also stated that their 200th automation system highlights the release of a highly profitable processing device.