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.
PRI Automation and Equipe
merged in January 1998 to provide
the semiconductor industry seamless
tool to tool wafer transfer. With con-
bined annual revenues of 230 million
dollars, PRI is the leader in fab
automation. Equipe Division is located
in Sunnyvale, California, in the heart
of Silicon Valley.
emiconductor equipment manu-
facturers are constantly being
squeezed between the conflicting
requirements of ever-increasing perfor-
mance specifications, improved time to
market, and reduced costs.
That's why most semiconductor
equipment manufacturers have come to
specify robots manufactured by PRI
Automation-Equipe Division in design-
ing their systems. And why Equipe, in
turn, has used Galil motion controllers
in every one of the nearly 10,000 robots
they've shipped since the company was
created some eight 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 combines
Galil's S-curve acceleration profile with
overlapping motion profiles. Without
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.
S
this acceleration profile,
achieving the same
throughput would require
setting speed and accelera-
tions much higher, caus-
ing increased wear, short-
er life, and ultimately less
reliability.
With the value of some
wafers approaching hun-
dreds of thousands of dol-
lars in their final phases of
manufacture, the semicon-
ductor industry must demand
the most reliable, high preci-
sion manufacturing equipment
available, which is exactly what Equipe
provides. To meet these stiff require-
ments, Equipe relies on proven Galil
architecture and motion control algo-
rithms to maintain precise control of
every phase of production, reliably,
time after time.
By this constant adherence to excel-
Equipe has used Galil motion
controllers in every one of the
nearly 10,000 robots they've
shipped since the company was
created.
Galil Motion Control, Inc. · 800-377-6329 · www.galilmc.com
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