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Gage Applied Technologies, established in 1987, is a customer-oriented worldwide industry leader in Advanced Instrumentation based on the personal computer platform. Gage designs and develops hardware and software for the Test and Measurement, Embedded Data Acquisition and Automated Test market segments. Our product offering includes PCI and CompactPCI digitizers, modular instruments, turnkey measurement systems, and supporting software.

Our products are used worldwide across diverse industries in Communications, Computers, Semiconductor, Aerospace, Research Laboratories and Education. Major applications served are Manufacturing Test, Advanced Research, Ultrasonics, Lasers and Embedded DAQ.

Gage has recently joined forces with KineticSystems Company, LLC of Lockport (Illinois) to form a family of companies dedicated to providing the best solutions in test and measurement. Together, Gage and KineticSystems bring almost 50 years of excellence and world-class technology. We are now even better able to design and build systems and modules that fit your requirements, be they for the PCI, cPCI/PXI, VXI, or even the CAMAC platform. This new partnership only reinforces our commitment to provide an ever-broader family of products to meet your most demanding applications.

While we are located in Montreal, Canada, Gage sells its products through an independent sales organization in North America, and internationally through an extensive network of qualified distributors.

As a worldwide industry leader in performance digitizers, Gage's CompuScope and CompuGen products are world renowned for high speed, high data throughput, high resolution, low noise, deep on-board acquisition memory, and much more.

Gage's motivated employees, exciting new products, diversified customer base and a growing international presence have positioned Gage for continued growth and success.

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Computer-Based Instruments

The use and development of technology requires test and measurement instruments. From research and development of new technologies, to ensuring quality in the manufacturing of various products, instruments are essential. For example, when the Space Shuttle is launched, many different instruments are used to conduct thousands of electrical, temperature, chemical and other measurements to monitor the status of the craft and its crew. Instruments are essential to our high technology economies.

For decades, engineers have used analog instruments to observe results on a CRT screen. These instruments are useful only if the signal is periodic and the engineer is present to witness telltale signals. To observe transient phenomena, or a non-periodic behavior, engineers require instruments that can be set up to capture transients and store them. This became possible with digital oscilloscopes.

Computer-based instruments, introduced during the 1980's, provide instrument capabilities integrated with a computer. This development opened the doors to instruments that can not only provide measurements and automation, but also analysis and computer results from the measurements. This is a powerful combination of measurement, analysis and remote connectivity.

Gage is positioned at the high end of the PC Data acquisition market, where quality and performance are more important than price. We were the first company to ship a high-speed PCI bus instrument (1995) and Gage has continued its leadership in this important market segment with the introduction of several more PCI bus and now CompactPCI bus products. Gage is a member of the PCI SIG consortium and the PXI Systems Alliance.

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Gage Products

Gage's extensive line of products include ultra high speed data acquisition cards, digital oscilloscope cards, analog and digital signal generation cards, arbitrary waveform generator cards, digital pattern generation cards, digital input cards and software packages to create a user-friendly human interface. Any and all of these modules can be used in a PC or in a CompactPCI/PXI system as standalone instruments, or in combinations for the creation of powerful Synthetic Instruments.

Gage makes the most advanced computer-based instruments in the world. They are the fastest, of the highest quality, and most versatile. Gage sells more than 20 different hardware cards and numerous software packages to operate them or to help integrate them in a test system.

We provide our customers with the industry's most extensive array of software. All CompuScope digitizer cards are equipped with ready-to-use application software (GageScope) as well as optional software development kits which let customers write their own programs.

Gage's signal generation products are among the best on the market. Through easy-to-use software, signals can be generated based on mathematical or graphical descriptions, or directly from a previously recorded signal file acquired with a digitizer or a digital input card.

Applications often require more than one card; Gage products can be synchronized via proprietary bridging circuitry to provide true multi-channel solutions. Independent cards can also be operated together to form complex impulse-response as well as mixed-mode test systems. 

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Research & Development

Gage has gathered a highly motivated and talented team of hardware and software engineers committed to excellence and imbued with a great sense of pride in their achievements. Gage has acquired core expertise in the design of high-speed broadband analog electronics, analog to digital conversion, PC and PCI bus integration and software.

Gage’s product offering includes a family of multi-MHz to GHz digitizers and PCbased oscilloscope cards, analog signal generator cards, digital input and digital output cards, as well as the programming-free GageScope® oscilloscope software and a vast array of powerful Software Development Kits (SDKs).

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Marketing

Gage's prime focus is to understand the applications that drive the need for advanced instrumentation. One of our main marketing activities consists therefore in learning from our customers and following the development of various technologies and scientific disciplines. In Gage our customers find eager listeners; people genuinely interested in helping find solutions to the problems engineers and scientists face on a daily basis.

Advertising, public relations and product information activities are the result of Gage's marketing efforts. Besides having excellent products, Gage has developed a powerful message delivered through diversified means ranging from ads in trade publications, to printed and electronic newsletters, and of course our critical presence on the Web.

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Sales

Gage has thousands of customers around the world in such diverse fields as: electronics design; RF telecom, medical, OEM, military & aerospace, manufacturing; metallurgy, scientific research; and education. Gage customers include such high-profile industry leaders as: the US Navy, Lockheed-Martin, NASA; Sony; Raytheon, IBM; Seagate; General Motors; Siemens; and all the major research centers in the world.

Gage's customers, whether they are helping design products for the Space Shuttle or doing highly complex neurological research, are very demanding in their instrument purchases.

Gage exports over 85% of its products to more than 20 countries around the world, with 60% going to the United States.

In the United States, Gage sells directly to end-users. Gage has developed a national independent sales representative organization throughout the United States in order to provide a more extensive presence in this important market. Outside of the United States, Gage sells through exclusive national distributors.

Our personnel frequently visit distributors and are also available to meet directly with end-users. We hold frequent training sessions at Gage in Montreal in order to keep the distributors and representatives fully informed about Gage products. 

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Customer Support

Gage has a team of dedicated customer support specialists and applications engineers who answer the questions of current and prospective customers. These specialists, with the help of Gage's Automated Contact Tracking Facility, answer the initial inquiries of new customers and assure that questions are properly answered.

Gage also provides a toll free telephone and fax line to facilitate communications with customers. Customers may also contact Gage via e-mail at mailto:prodinfo@gage-applied.comand at our web site at http://www.gage-applied.com/.

Our prompt attention to customer needs has resulted in a high rate of customer satisfaction and this has helped us gain the advantageous reputation we enjoy today.

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Strategic Relationships and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)

OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) represent a major market for Gage. Over the years, we have forged strategic relationships with major customers by either customizing Gage instruments to the customer's demanding technical specification and/or by providing the added support required by these accounts.

OEMs work with Gage on a long-term basis because they need a reliable, long-term strategic supplier who will provide the required product and support. We have come to be recognized as the company that will make sure projects are completed on time, often going the extra distance to assist with system integration and software development.

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Service

Customer service is of fundamental importance to Gage. Customers make an investment in trust as well as product when they buy from Gage, and it is that trust that we strive to maintain.

Gage begins its customer service when it designs and manufactures each of its products. Gage designs its products with quality and serviceability as basic parameters. Rigid tolerances are used throughout the process, from conception, to parts selection, to manufacturing, and on to final testing. Thanks to our ultra-modern facilities in Lockport (Illinois), we are able to carefully monitor the assembly of our boards, thereby guaranteeing the highest possible level of quality, leading directly to benefits to our customers. 

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Premises

Gage headquarters are located in a 55,000 square foot leased facility in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Gage also has sales offices and manufacturing capabilities in Lockport, Illinois.