Cover Story
CEOCFO
Interview
Index &
Quotes
CEOCFO
Current Issue
Future
Features
Monthly
Analyst
Industry
Review
Analyst
Interviews
and Reports
Corporate
Financials
Archived
CEOCFO
Interviews
About
CEOCFO
interviews.com
Contact
& Ordering |
Maxwell is revolutionizing electrical
systems designs in automobiles, digital cameras and other electronic devices with their ultracapacitor technology
Power Technology
Computer Hardware
NASD: MXWL
Maxwell Technologies, Inc.
Carlton J. Eibl
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Interview conducted by:
Walter Banks
Co-Publisher
CEOCFOinterviews.com
May 2002
Company Profile:
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. manufactures and markets high-reliability power and computing
components and systems and automated test instruments.
Maxwell Technology Components Group
Ultracapacitor Product:
Maxwell Technologies' PowerCache™ ultracapacitor products are the world's leading
high-performance production ultracapacitors. As compared to batteries, PowerCache cells
deliver up to 10 times the power, last up to 10 times as long, operate more reliably in
high and low-temperature conditions, require far less maintenance and reduce environmental
issues associated with battery disposal. They have an extremely high electrical energy
storage capacity and the ability to deliver bursts of high power and recharge rapidly from
any energy source over hundreds of thousands of cycles.
Their postage stamp-size small cell ultracapacitors extend battery life and enhance the
performance and functionality of hand-held electronic devices, remote transmitting devices
and toys. Small cell ultracapacitors are UL Recognized Components.
Large cells
measuring 2” x 2” x 6” are linked together to form power packs of up to 500
cells to power initial acceleration, operate electrical subsystems and recapture energy
from braking for cleaner, more fuel-efficient hybrid electric/internal combustion buses,
trucks and automobiles.
Microelectronics
Products:
They design and manufacture radiation-shielded integrated circuits, power modules and
single board computers for the space and military markets. Their proprietary shielding
technology allows their original equipment manufacturer customers to use powerful,
low-cost, off-the-shelf components, protected with the level of radiation shielding
required for the orbit or environment in which satellites or spacecraft are to be
deployed.
Their Xray-Pak™ radiation mitigation technology is used to shield integrated circuits
that process and store data in military satellites from the radiation effects of nuclear
blasts. Xray-Pak integrates
flexible, lightweight, metal packaging with Maxwell's proprietary Rad-PakŪ shielding
technology to protect commercial microelectronic components, such as monolithic and
multi-chip data converters, memory and logic devices, from Xray emissions produced by the
detonation of nuclear weapons.
Instrument Products:
Maxwell
Technologies’ Instrument Products develops, manufacturers, and supports Automated Accelerated Reliability Test Systems (AARTS) for RF and
photonic compound semiconductor devices. This is an outgrowth of the book they helped to
write on GaAs reliability assurance guidelines. AARTS will control the temperature, dc
biases and RF excitation of each of 32 individual devices under test (DUT). The system
continuously monitors the parts, warning users of changes and archiving data for use in
determining parts life.
Instrument Products seized on expertise in instruments, DSP and microwave technologies to
build high performance low profile custom subsystems for the
OEM test instrument industry. For example vector network analyzers, programmable
semiconductor power supplies, high power RF signal generators, RF multichannel matrix
switch, and RF distribution units.
I-Bus/Phoenix Group:
Mission Critical High Reliability Platforms.
I-Bus/Phoenix manufactures fully integrated high reliability computing platforms
including Compact PCI technology, designed for a range of mission-critical applications.
In addition, they provide comprehensive power protection systems. They offer full OEM
product development, approvals management, testing and configuration, and total system
integration to meet the specific requirements of their customers throughout the world.
Systems include fully configured 1U, 2U, 4U and 6U ISA/PCI solutions. Their systems allow major OEMs to address
current applications in the certainty that their scalability and flexibility will
accommodate the demands of future technologies. From applications ranging from Internet
servers and broadcast delivery systems, to computer telephony integration servers and
industrial control systems, I-Bus/Phoenix is ideally placed to provide the expertise,
continuity of supply, third party alliances and global presence demanded by their OEM
customers.
Interview Highlights:
- How long has Maxwell Technology been around and where was their
technology developed?
- What part of their business did they sell to finance the rebuilding of Maxwell?
- Where are their 2 factories located?
- Where do they have operations?
- How close are they to bringing new technology to the marketplace?
- What are their two core businesses?
- What are the names of their two core groups and what products do they produce.
- What are the markets for their products?
- What is their hallmark technology?
- What advantages does it offer the automobile and digital cameras industries?
- Is there a global market for the ultracapacitor
technology?
- How do they bring their products to the marketplace?
- What products do they bring to the telecommunications and medical markets?
- Which product has the greatest growth potential for their business?
- What sets their ultracapacitor
technology apart from anything that has come before it?
- To what can the ultracapacitor
technology be compared?
- Whom do they compete with and is there a value in having competition?
- How was their product pipeline built?
- How strong is their patent protection?
- Where are they in the marketplace?
- What major automobile manufacturers have already taken steps to bring vehicles to the
market implementing the ultracapacitor
technology?
- When can we expect to see a ramp on ultracapacitors?
- What were revenues in 2001?
- Do they have the cash and/or credit to go forward?
- What is their management approach for each group?
- Where would they like to see the company a year or so from now?
- Can the ultracapacitor
technology help with fuel economy?
- Could the ultracapacitors
technology lower the cost of manufacturing an automobile?
- Are systems built on your ultracapacitor technology very durable?
- Whom have they been working with on the military side to bring products to the market?
To
receive a copy of this highly informative interview, left click here: Contact & Ordering
disclaimer
|
