Chad
Industries Announces Major Design Win for the WaferMate™ Product Line
WaferMate300™ Wafer
Handling System is Selected by Leading Analytical Tool
Company as EFEM of Choice.
May
'07, ANAHEIM, CA -Chad
Industries, Inc., a leading supplier of factory automation
solutions for the semiconductor, electronics, and life
sciences industries announced today that it has been qualified
by Applied Precision as their recommended EFEM (Equipment
Front-End Module) supplier for their waferWoRx®300
probing process analysis system.
“We selected Chad Industries to supply the wafer handling
automation for the waferWoRx®300 tool because of several
factors including Chad’s superior product design, excellent
project management and outstanding customer support,” said
Darren James, Applied Precision Product Line Manager. “Chad
not only worked closely with our team to achieve a seamless
integration of the EFEM and the waferWoRx®300 tool, but
also with our customer to ensure a successful installation.”
Applied
Precision qualified Chad’s unique WaferMate300™ series
of wafer handling systems by working closely with Chad’s
experienced engineering team to optimize the hardware integration
and software communications between the two platforms. With
this accomplished, the WaferMate system was shipped directly
from Chad to Applied Precision’s customer in the Northwestern
United States and integrated with the waferWoRx®300 tool
on site seamlessly. The next integration of these systems is
scheduled for this month at a major fab in Taiwan. End-users
of the waferWoRx®300 can now purchase WaferMate systems
directly from Chad in several configurations which include
single or dual loadports and multiple wafer size capability.
“We are very pleased that Applied Precision has selected
Chad as the vendor of choice for wafer handling automation.
This design win adds to our already significant portfolio of
tool companies that have chosen to integrate WaferMate™ systems,” said
Scott Klimczak, president of Chad Industries. “Over the
last year, we have refined the WaferMate™ product line
such that it provides customers a high-performance, low-cost
platform that can meet the constant challenges of the rapidly
evolving SEMI market. We expect to increase our market share
in the front-end OEM market by leveraging the advantages the
WaferMate™ has over its competition. We believe that
our ability to customize the WaferMate™ platform to handle
a variety of non-standard substrates, including thin, warped,
glass and grooved wafers, enables us to offer our customers
wafer handling solutions that fit their current and future
applications.
The
WaferMate300™ will
be displayed in the Chad Industries booth #8414 during the
Semicon West 2007 show.
Chad
Industries designs, manufactures and markets wafer handling
solutions
for the semiconductor industry, mechanical and odd-form
component assembly solutions for the electronics industry,
liquid handling solutions for the life sciences industry, and
other automated handling, assembly and test solutions. CHAD
began operations in 1973 and established leadership in the
electronics assembly for odd-form component to printed circuit
assembly (CHAD IQ™ Product Line). More information is
available at http://www.chadindustries.net.
For more information on this or any of CHAD's assembly solutions,
please contact us at 1565 S. Sinclair Street, Anaheim, CA 92806,
USA Tel (714) 938-0080 or Fax (714) 938-0630.
Applied Precision will be attending Semicon West 2007. Come
visit them for more information at booth #8625.
The Semiconductor Division of Applied Precision, LLC develops
and manufactures test and analysis tools enabling accuracy-critical
applications for the semiconductor industry. Applied Precision,
LLC is the leading provider of metrology solutions for the
wafer probing process including probe card test and analysis
and probing process analysis. More information is available
at http://www.appliedprecision.com.
For
more information on the waferWoRx®300 or any of Applied
Precision’s products, please contact them at 1040 12th
Ave. N.W., Issaquah, WA 98027, USA. Tel (425) 557-1000 or Fax
(425) 557-1055.
