Brooks Software Successfully Deploys Activity Manager in Chartered Semiconductor's 300mm Fab
Tuesday March 1, 8:30 am ET
Real-Time Manufacturing Automation Workflow Application Continues Brooks' Market Momentum in 300mm Manufacturing
CHELMSFORD, Mass., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRKS - News) and a leading provider of real-time applications for enterprises with collaborative, complex manufacturing operations, today announced that Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top dedicated semiconductor foundries, has installed Brooks' factory automation execution application, Activity Manager, in its first 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility, Fab 7, in Singapore.
Activity Manager controls and monitors the manufacturing workflow and automates the decision-making and execution processes across a factory's manufacturing execution system (MES) software and the automated material handling system (AMHS). This unique new application is gaining market acceptance in today's most advanced factories, playing an important role in allowing semiconductor manufacturers to achieve highly automated operations. Chartered is the first 300mm foundry to use Activity Manager, which also has been deployed in 300mm logic and high volume memory fabs.
"Building on our successful collaboration at other Chartered fabs, we are pleased to work with Brooks as one of our leading 300mm suppliers as we put in place a world-class fab automation infrastructure at Fab 7," said Tang Yong "TY" Ang, vice president, quality and fab support operations at Chartered. "We were impressed with Activity Manager's ease of customization and ability to manage exceptions across multiple software and automation systems. These capabilities, coupled with our existing real-time dispatcher (RTD) system from Brooks, will optimize lot movement efficiency and contribute to Fab 7's quality excellence, high throughput and competitive cycle times."
"Activity Manager is a key component of Brooks' Supply Chain Execution strategy, which is designed to give manufacturers greater control of their manufacturing workflow and to automate decision-making processes across multiple integrated manufacturing systems," said Joe Bellini, executive vice president and general manager of Brooks Software. "By emphasizing decision- making and execution, Activity Manager captures the decision flow in real-time helping to improve manufacturing productivity and delivering a higher return on assets. With Chartered Fab 7's implementation, Activity Manager continues Brooks' strong momentum in highly automated 300mm factories."
Activity Manager can support a variety of MES environments and has been successfully installed in fabs running non-Brooks MES systems. At Chartered, for example, Activity Manager has been installed by IBM, through an existing partnership, to provide automated execution control with IBM's SiView MES package.
About Brooks Software
Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, provides real-time applications that support enterprise-wide initiatives for greater efficiency and productivity in collaborative, complex manufacturing. Brooks' Sense Decide Respond(TM) manufacturing software solutions are the foundation for enterprise initiatives in supply chain execution, closed loop automation, lean manufacturing and enterprise performance management. Installed in the majority of Fortune 500 manufacturers, Brooks Software delivers competitive advantage to aerospace & defense, automotive, high tech, life sciences and semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. For more information, visit www.brookssoftware.com.
About Brooks Automation
Brooks Automation (Nasdaq: BRKS - News) delivers automation solutions to the global semiconductor and related industries. The company provides hardware, software, and professional services to help manage every wafer, reticle and data movement in the fab, improving throughput and yield while reducing cost and time to market. Brooks' products and capabilities are used in virtually every semiconductor fab in the world. For information, visit the company's web site at the URL brooks.com.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The foregoing discussion contains forward-looking statements related to future results and product capabilities and speaks only of Brooks Automation's expectations as of the date of this press release. The forward- looking statements involve several known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, the continued success of Brooks Automation, Inc. (the "Company") in the marketplace, the Company's dependence on the cyclical semiconductor industry, the Company's ability to successfully develop new markets for its products and services, the highly competitive nature and rapid technological change that characterize the industries in which the Company competes, the performance of the Company's products and services, and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company's reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements include statements concerning Brooks' software's Activity Manager workflow management software and its capabilities especially in the semiconductor market, the Company's software marketing capabilities and its ability to continue to expand the market for its products and services. As a result, there can be no assurance that the Company's future results will not be materially different from those projected. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
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