The December issue of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report (www.powercosm.com) devoted the entire issue to Analogic's explosive detection systems. Very impressive.
From the Powercosm Report:
"How do you 'see' molecules? The molecules in plastic explosives> Or nerve gas? Or cocaine? Or Anthrax DNA? <snip> ...for mass screening, in real time, you have to go to power--highly ordered photon power. <snip> You shine the right kind of light, and watch what happens when it hits the target."
"After September 11, investors rushed to put their money in a handful of companies that make baggage-screening systems for airports. We like one of them too, American Science & Engineering (ASE), but so does everybody else, apparently. ASE's stock price leapt four-fold following 9/11. And, we like Analogic (ALOG),--which was largely ignored in the post-9/11 rush to defense and security technology stocks.
"Analogic is the OEM for the airport automatic explosive detection systems (EDS) built by L3 Communications (LLL). More importantly, its business is squarely centered in digital power technologies. Analogic understands the power-centered engineering of sight. It builds the hardware and software that projects power, detects it, and makes sense of the torrents of data so generated."
They continue at the end of the report, "That 80 percent of Analogic's business is still anchored in medical technologies may explain Wall Street's relative lack of interest. Hospitals aren't airports.
"but X-rays are X-rays.<snip> Of the three companies now developing next-generation EDS machines for the FAA, two use Analogoc as a major OEM (L3 and PerkinElmer).
"There's nothing very pretty happening on the generation side of X-Rays. Aiming systems that depend on spinning steel doughnuts don't interest us much either. The real action is on the other side of the gun (and the doughnut) in the detectors, the digital imaging computers, and the software. X-ray sight is going to move far beyond the hermetic worlds of hospitals and airports. Analogic is building the stuff that's really changing, and that's advancing fast. That puts it squarely at the center of this important photon-power space."
From the Analogic website (www.analogic.com), here is their complete product line:
Board-Level Products
Computed Tomography (CT) Systems and Subsystems
Data Acquisition & Conversion Products
Digital Imaging Systems & Subsystems
Fetal Monitoring
Internet Telephony
Industrial Weighing Instrumentation
MRI Subsystems
Patient Monitoring
Power Test Systems
Security Imaging
Test & Measurement Instruments
Ultrasound Systems & Subsystems |
