Intevac Photonics Selects Camstar Platform to Enable Rapid Growth and Innovation

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Intevac, a supplier of leading edge, high-sensitivity imaging products and vision systems, has selected the Camstar Enterprise Platform™ to accelerate new product introduction, drive quality initiatives and streamline regulatory compliance. The deployment of the Camstar Enterprise Platform at Intevac Photonics, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, will include: Manufacturing Execution (MES) and Statistical Process Control (SPC), Quality Management (QMS) – including Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) Management and Nonconformance Management – and Operational Intelligence capabilities.

“We evaluated a number of options, and the Camstar Platform clearly supports our current requirements”

“Intevac Photonics is developing and delivering new products at a rapid pace to meet the critical needs of military, industrial and scientific businesses,” said Tim Justyn, VP of Operations at Intevac Photonics. “The Camstar Platform is essential for us to continue this rate of growth while ensuring top product quality and adherence to regulatory requirements. The Platform is a solid and proven foundation in our overall manufacturing infrastructure that drives our closed-loop quality processes and our manufacturing improvements.”

“We evaluated a number of options, and the Camstar Platform clearly supports our current requirements,” said Ruth Updegraff, Manager of Business Process at Intevac. “We have developed a strong relationship with Camstar, and expect a beneficial partnership for years to come.”

“Intevac’s highly innovative business requires a comprehensive platform for manufacturing and quality to scale their development and production operations while improving quality,” said Rob Rudder, Camstar Senior Vice President. “Camstar’s long history of leadership in semiconductor, electronics and regulated manufacturing, coupled with the extensive investment we have made in our platform to serve the global quality needs of our customers, is making a difference to the high tech industry.”

About Camstar Systems, Inc.

Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time, every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to sourcing to manufacturing to customer product experience – all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient.

Camstar is the largest in its market, providing solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management and supply chain intelligence. For over 20 years, Camstar has served hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, BAE Systems, Beijing SE Potevio Mobile Communications, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, CIBA Vision, Cisco, Emcore, Ericsson, Hitachi, Honeywell, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, Luvata, MiaSole, Motorola, Nortel, Noven Pharmaceutical, NXP, Panasonic, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Siemens, St. Jude Medical, Stryker, Xilinx, Zeiss and ZOLL. For more information, visit www.camstar.com.

About Intevac

Intevac was founded in 1991 and has two businesses: Equipment and Intevac Photonics. Equipment Business: We are a leader in the design, development and marketing of high productivity lean manufacturing systems and have been producing Lean Thinking platforms since 1994. We are the leading supplier of magnetic media processing systems to the hard drive industry and offer high productivity solutions to the photovoltaic and semiconductor industries. Intevac Photonics: We are a leader in the development and manufacture of leading edge, high-sensitivity imaging products and vision systems, as well as table-top and handheld Raman instruments. Markets addressed include military, industrial, medical and scientific.

For more information, visit www.intevac.com.