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White Paper: Can New Approaches in Wafer Handling Design Support Demand for Better Process Technology?

WHAT CAN CROSSING AUTOMATION OFFER YOU?

Wafer automation isn’t magic, merely a challenge. It isn’t created by eye of Newt and it isn’t located in a galaxy far, far away. The answer is relatively simple. And Crossing Automation has it.

Automation is the highest cost commodity segment in the process equipment business; it is best described in two major product families – Atmospheric and Vacuum. Our objective is to allow you to focus clearly on what the industry defines as “Results on Wafer” which is driven at the process module and the software that integrates the result to the wafer. You need a new, trouble-free design, and we have it. We replace the current standard of highly customized and expensive chamber and controller elements with a system that is far less complicated to manufacture and require no complex motion control hardware and software.

The partnership between Crossing Automation and our customers means you will have automation tools that are simpler; yet deliver leading-edge performance and world-class reliability. We provide cluster platforms that have inherently greater cost performance benefits; ones that will be in step with future technology challenges.

Our first generation products will:

Sustain 50-75% wafer outs during robot service cycle

Enable 50-75% wafer outs during process module service cycle

Reduce OEM product costs 20 – 40%

Cut manufacturing lead time by 60%

Trim inventory costs 35 – 50%

Shorten new product development cycle times 20 –35%

Decrease cost-of-ownership by 20%

Integrate pre- and post- in-situ metrology without adding wafer moves

Deliver fully integrated and tested systems directly to your assembly floor