Smith customers compete in the global computing, telecommunications, automotive, consumer electronics, aviation equipment, medical technology, and other electronics sectors -- all rapidly changing and highly competitive. Smith’s private ownership and global management team provide the flexibility and responsiveness to deliver timely and unique solutions to meet dynamic supply chain challenges.

Jenoptik now focuses on some very specific markets. With the sale of M&W Zander, which made up the company's Clean Systems Technologies unit (and the majority of its sales at one time), Jenoptik reorganized into three segments -- Lasers and Optical Systems, Metrology, and Defense & Civil Systems -- and five product divisions under those segments. Users of the company's offerings include chip makers, such as IBM, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Texas Instruments, as well as chip equipment manufacturers, including ASML. Jenoptik gets more than half of its sales outside Germany.

Cognex Corporation provides machine vision products primarily in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Its machine vision products capture and analyze visual information used to automate tasks primarily in manufacturing processes, where vision is required. The company operates in two divisions, Modular Vision Systems and Surface Inspection Systems. The Modular Vision Systems division develops, manufactures, and markets modular vision systems that are used to automate the manufacture of discrete items, such as cellular phones, aspirin bottles, and automobile wheels, by locating, identifying, inspecting, and measuring them during the manufacturing process. The Surface Inspection Systems division develops, manufactures, and markets surface inspection vision systems that are used to inspect the surfaces of materials processed in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, non-wovens, plastics, and glass. The company serves discrete factory automation, semiconductor and electronics capital equipment, and surface inspection markets. It sells its products through direct sales force and a network of integration and distribution partners. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts.

HYPRES, Inc. company was founded in 1983 and is based in Elmsford, New York. Hypres, Inc. develops and commercializes superconducting microelectronics in Australia, France, and the United States. Its operations include design development, fabrication, testing, and packaging. The company offers voltage standard circuits for metrology laboratories; superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixers to the radio astronomy community; products for wireless and optical communications; and digital-RFTM receiver systems to the U.S. Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research. Its products also include superconductor microelectronic circuits, analog-to-digital converters, shift registers, memory equipment, SQUIDs and SQUID amplifiers, SQUID microscope systems, amplifier chips, IR sensors, rapid single flux quantum logic gates, wide band amplifiers, and digital-to-analog and time-to-digital converters. In addition, the company offers foundry services. Its products are used in satellite and tactical communications, optical network switches and routers, wireless networks, and radio observatories; and signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and software defined radio applications, as well as by commercial wireless operators.

President and CEO John Westerbeke Jr. owns Westerbeke Corporation, which was founded by his father in 1937. Westerbeke makes waves with its line of marine engines and generators. Many of the company's engines are used for auxiliary power for sailboats; some models are used as the primary power source for other craft. Westerbeke's marine generators are used to power lights, navigational gear, and other equipment on pleasure and commercial vessels. The company also makes industrial generators for use on land. Most Westerbeke engines and generators are diesel-powered, but the company also makes gasoline-powered models. Westerbeke sells products worldwide through distributors and dealers.

BgenuineTec Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. BgenuineTec Inc. engages in the development and sale of fingerprint authentication products and security solutions based on fingerprint authentication technology. The company provides biometric certification and authentication services, physical access systems, fingerprint image sensors, and related software. It offers solutions, such as fingerprint authentication algorithm, which is useful in mobile phones and PDAs; BgenuineTec PC Security that allows the user to set up and use the system for authentication, password management, and data and file encryption; BgenuineTec technology, which helps the users to block certain Internet sites for children or limit access to a family's online bank accounts; and BgenuineTec business solutions, a combination of hardware, software, and services designed to streamline office processes and enhance business efficiency. The company operates primarily in Japan. It was formerly known as Secure Design KK and changed its name to BgenuineTec Inc. as a result of its business focus shift to new products based on technology.

Kopin Corporation produces lightweight, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) that are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 20 million displays for a variety of consumer and military applications including digital cameras, personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems. The company's unique HBTs, which help to enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, have been integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin's proprietary display and HBT technologies are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending.

Isola Group, Sarl, with headquarters in Chandler, Arizona, is a technology-driven, global designer, developer and manufacturer of high performance base materials used in the manufacture of advanced multilayer printed circuit boards worldwide.Isola is a privately held company owned by Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a global private equity firm, and Redfern Partners, a strategic investor in the PCB industry. Both TPG and Redfern have invested significantly in our future growth in the United States, Europe and Asia, providing us with long term stability to benefit Isola customers worldwide.Isola's investment in research and development, technology and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and practices results in superior value to our customers, with innovative solutions to minimize costs and cut manufacturing time. Our commitment is reflected in our global network of sales and distribution offices allowing us to meet evolving customer needs and provide a full spectrum of services.Isola's broad range of products are used in multiple applications including: aerospace, automotive, broadband telecommunications, military, chip packaging and testing, high end computing, high speed digital designs and other specialty markets. Isola operates multiple manufacturing, R&D and sales offices throughout Europe, Asia and the United States.

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., is a semiconductor company that designs, develops and sells processors and integrated circuits that are used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in routers, switches, wireless infrastructure equipment, network security appliances, datacenter servers, network access equipment and network storage devices to accelerate the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia content for advanced enterprise, datacenter, communications and mobile wireless networks. The Company’s products are sold to OEMs that supply networking equipment for the Internet infrastructure. Its products include knowledge-based processors, NETLite processors, network search engines and physical layer products. Its subsidiary is Aeluros, Inc.

California Eastern Laboratories is the exclusive sales and marketing partner for products made by the Compound Semiconductor Devices Division (CSDD) of NEC Electronics Corporation. These products include RF and wireless RFICs and discrete devices, lasers and detectors for fiber optics, optocouplers, and solid state relays.CEL maintains extensive inventories, sets pricing, and provides engineering and applications support. CEL also operates a Design Center at its Santa Clara headquarters for the development of new ICs and components. The company has sales offices throughout the country and a network of independent distributors.

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