Adaptec is a computer hardware brand owned by PMC-Sierra that is used on some of its host adapters for connecting storage devices to computers. The production line of Adaptec is in Indonesia. Products are made to interface with SCSI, Serial ATA, and Serial attached SCSI. Some of its host adapters are used to perform SSD caching of hard drives. Adaptec is also used to brand battery modules to support its host bus adapters and storage interface cables.
Adaptec, Inc. was the name of a company based in Milpitas, California that produced these products until it sold substantially all of its business operations to PMC-Sierra on June 18, 2010, and is now a shell corporation known as ADPT Corporation. Historically, this company used to produce interface products involving USB, IEEE 1394, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and video. Adaptec once produced CD and DVD burning software under the brand names of Easy CD Creator and Toast, and network-attached storage devices like the Snap Server product line.
The ISO 9000 family of standards is the most recognized quality assurance system in the world today, with over 100 country members. Bob Beckwith, Adaptec vice president for IC quality and reliability, characterized the ISO 9001 certification as "A major reinforcement of our goal of total quality management. It provides us with a better framework for continuous improvement, so we feel the investment and effort involved in the attainment of certification have been more than worthwhile."
Adaptec's manufacturing facility in Singapore has had ISO 9002 certification for board and integrated circuits for over two years.
Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADPT) designs, manufactures and markets IOware(R) solutions to eliminate performance bottlenecks between microcomputers, networks and peripherals. Solutions range from simple connectivity products for single-user and small office desktops, to intelligent subsystems, high performance SCSI, RAID and ATM products for enterprise-wide computing and networked environments. Adaptec I/O solutions are incorporated into the products of virtually all the major computer and peripheral manufacturers around the world.
Product changes — updates, enhancements and patches
performed between product versions — are equally common
events in the high tech industries. These changes can be due to
component cost change, product improvements, process
modifications, quality feedbacks, material shortages, and product
obsolescence. Product changes involve the collaboration of
design engineers, procurement, suppliers, manufacturing and
process engineers, contract manufacturers, service support, and
product management. Here, again, Internet-based solutions can play a key role, providing a platform for coordinating and
streamlining the complex activities entailed in product changes.
VI. New Business Models
Once companies begin to realize the promise of e-businessenabled supply chain integration, they often discover entirely new
ways of pursuing business objectives, developing strategies and
business models that were neither apparent nor possible prior to
the Internet. These new business models and opportunities are
as limitless as the imagination. The following examples show the
range of possibilities.
Virtual Resources The Internet facilitates information search so that multiple
resources in a supply chain that once acted independently can
now be tapped simultaneously to satisfy special needs. Examples
include inventory stockpiles, untapped capacity, or even unmet
demand, all of which can be pooled to create a secondary market
of “virtual resources.” Such secondary markets can create high
value for participants by minimizing imbalances between supply
and demand and reducing exposure to inventory obsolescence.
Internet-based secondary markets can thus benefit, in most
cases, every member of the supply chain.
One example of a virtual resource is World Chemical Exchange,
an electronic marketplace operated by ChemConnect providing a
global market for chemical and plastic manufacturers and buyers.
More than 2,500 members, representing 80 percent of the world’s
top 25 chemical companies, now can conduct round-the-clock
trading of chemicals and plastics of all types
Converge operates a market exchange for the secondary market
of electronics components. Since the high tech industry has very
short product life cycles, excess inventory of components and
parts can result in huge obsolescence costs, while suppliers and
manufacturers are not always able to produce more of their
products that are close to the end of the product life cycle.
Converge minimizes such exposure by providing an open virtual
marketplace for buyers and sellers.
Adaptec, Inc. was the name of a company based in Milpitas, California that produced these products until it sold substantially all of its business operations to PMC-Sierra on June 18, 2010, and is now a shell corporation known as ADPT Corporation. Historically, this company used to produce interface products involving USB, IEEE 1394, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and video. Adaptec once produced CD and DVD burning software under the brand names of Easy CD Creator and Toast, and network-attached storage devices like the Snap Server product line.
The ISO 9000 family of standards is the most recognized quality assurance system in the world today, with over 100 country members. Bob Beckwith, Adaptec vice president for IC quality and reliability, characterized the ISO 9001 certification as "A major reinforcement of our goal of total quality management. It provides us with a better framework for continuous improvement, so we feel the investment and effort involved in the attainment of certification have been more than worthwhile."
Adaptec's manufacturing facility in Singapore has had ISO 9002 certification for board and integrated circuits for over two years.
Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADPT) designs, manufactures and markets IOware(R) solutions to eliminate performance bottlenecks between microcomputers, networks and peripherals. Solutions range from simple connectivity products for single-user and small office desktops, to intelligent subsystems, high performance SCSI, RAID and ATM products for enterprise-wide computing and networked environments. Adaptec I/O solutions are incorporated into the products of virtually all the major computer and peripheral manufacturers around the world.
Product changes — updates, enhancements and patches
performed between product versions — are equally common
events in the high tech industries. These changes can be due to
component cost change, product improvements, process
modifications, quality feedbacks, material shortages, and product
obsolescence. Product changes involve the collaboration of
design engineers, procurement, suppliers, manufacturing and
process engineers, contract manufacturers, service support, and
product management. Here, again, Internet-based solutions can play a key role, providing a platform for coordinating and
streamlining the complex activities entailed in product changes.
VI. New Business Models
Once companies begin to realize the promise of e-businessenabled supply chain integration, they often discover entirely new
ways of pursuing business objectives, developing strategies and
business models that were neither apparent nor possible prior to
the Internet. These new business models and opportunities are
as limitless as the imagination. The following examples show the
range of possibilities.
Virtual Resources The Internet facilitates information search so that multiple
resources in a supply chain that once acted independently can
now be tapped simultaneously to satisfy special needs. Examples
include inventory stockpiles, untapped capacity, or even unmet
demand, all of which can be pooled to create a secondary market
of “virtual resources.” Such secondary markets can create high
value for participants by minimizing imbalances between supply
and demand and reducing exposure to inventory obsolescence.
Internet-based secondary markets can thus benefit, in most
cases, every member of the supply chain.
One example of a virtual resource is World Chemical Exchange,
an electronic marketplace operated by ChemConnect providing a
global market for chemical and plastic manufacturers and buyers.
More than 2,500 members, representing 80 percent of the world’s
top 25 chemical companies, now can conduct round-the-clock
trading of chemicals and plastics of all types
Converge operates a market exchange for the secondary market
of electronics components. Since the high tech industry has very
short product life cycles, excess inventory of components and
parts can result in huge obsolescence costs, while suppliers and
manufacturers are not always able to produce more of their
products that are close to the end of the product life cycle.
Converge minimizes such exposure by providing an open virtual
marketplace for buyers and sellers.
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