Overview

The Autogager 1500, the first large-scale, automated dimensional metrology system for the hard disk market, was introduced by the Company in 1996 to meet the industry's increasing demand for the manufacture of Magneto-Resistive ("MR") quality hard disks. These systems measure thickness and thickness variation on advanced hard disks and provide high speed sorting. The products combine an industrial robot with the company's capacitive dimensional metrology into a single, floor-mounted system. These systems, which are capable of operating in a class 1000 cleanroom environment, provide a non-destructive in-line sorting capability and precise disk classification at submicron accuracies.