FSI Technologies Announces New MBR-1000 Encoder


Lombard, Illinois, August 17, 2006

FSI Technologies introduced its newest line of industrial rotary optical encoders, the MBR-1000.

According to Fred Turek, FSI's COO, "the MBR-1000 combines FSI cube encoder quality and
design at an economical price. Over four decades of engineering and manufacturing experience is embodied in every MBR-1000". The major features of this newest line are:

o Pricing starts at $98.00 each
o Single heavy duty 3/8 shaft and bearings
o Single and dual channel (quadrature) outputs
o Uses industry standard DB9 connectors Pinout to FSI-DB9TM standard
o Outputs have both source and sink capability
o Available in 10 different models

FSI Technologies Inc., located in Lombard, Illinois, has been a trusted manufacturer of
factory automation products since 1959, and is committed to manufacturing quality products and providing complete customer satisfaction. The Encoder, Counter & Sensor division offers a full line of optical rotary shaft encoders, photoelectric sensors, controllers, counters and displays, and Kwangwoo encoders. The Machine Vision division offers a full line of machine vision products, services, and engineering support for automatic inspection and robot guidance applications, as well as vision lighting and training. FSI Express is the on-line division offering selected high quality machine vision components, and Euresys framegrabbers. For more details about products or services, please visit their website at www.fsinet.com.

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