Galil Smart Moves Partner
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emiconductor equipment
manufacturers are constantly
being squeezed between the
conflicting requirements of ever-
increasing performance specifica-
tions, improved time to market, and
reduced costs.
That's why most semiconduc-
tor equipment manufacturers have
come to specify robots manufac-
tured by Equipe Technologies in
designing their systems. And why
Equipe, in turn, has used Galil
motion controllers in every one of
the nearly 7,000 robots they've
shipped since the company was cre-
ated some seven years ago.
By combining the capabilities of
Galil motion controllers and Equipe's
proprietary Time Optimized Trajectory
software, Equipe has been able to
increase throughput by as much as 33
percent. The Company's Time
Optimized Trajectory Software com-
bines Galil's S-curve acceleration pro-
By combining the
capabilities of Galil motion
controllers and Equipe's proprietary
Time Optimized Trajectory software,
Equipe has been able to increase
throughput by as much as 33 percent.
Equipe and Galil. A Winning Team
Boosts Wafer Throughput.
In the highly competitive and exacting world of silicon wafer production,
throughput, precision and reliability are paramount.
SMART MOVES SPOTLIGHT
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file with overlapping
motion profiles.
Without this accelera-
tion profile, achieving
the same throughput
would require setting
speed and accelerations
much higher, causing
increased wear, shorter
life, and ultimately less
reliability.
With the value of some
wafers approaching hundreds
of thousands of dollars in their final
phases of manufacture, the semicon-
ductor industry must demand the most
reliable, high precision manufacturing
equipment available, which is exactly
what Equipe provides. To meet these
stiff requirements, Equipe relies on
proven Galil architecture and motion
control algorithms to maintain precise
control of every phase of production,
reliably, time after time.
By this constant adherence to excel-
lence in design, manufacturing and
above all, quality components, Equipe
has grown to dominate atmospheric
semiconductor wafer handling, becom-
ing the largest manufacturer of wafer
handling robots in the U.S.
With more than $35 million in
sales and a worldwide sales and ser-
vice organization, Equipe was select-
ed by Inc. magazine as one of the
top ten fastest growing privately held
companies in America in 1996.
Equipe Technologies is located in
Sunnyvale, California, in the heart of
Silicon Valley.
Equipe has used Galil motion
controllers in every one of the
nearly 7,000 robots they've
shipped since the company was
created.
