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News Release from: Brooks Automation
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 February 2005
Material control system deals won in
Taiwan
Brooks Software has announced recent multi-million dollar wins at Taiwanese TFT-LCD manufacturers for CLASS MCS Material Control System software and services.
Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation, and a leading provider of real-time applications for enterprises with collaborative, complex manufacturing operations, has announced recent multi-million dollar wins at leading Taiwanese TFT-LCD manufacturers for Brooks' CLASS MCS Material Control System (MCS) software and services The Brooks hardware-neutral MCS solution was selected to control and manage automated material handling systems (AMHS) from several vendors including Daifuku, Shinko, Hitachi, Formosa and Murata
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Brooks' CLASS MCS frees discrete manufacturers from the complexity of maintaining multiple MCS systems to control diverse AMHS hardware systems.
Brooks' CLASS MCS easily integrates with all the leading AMHS systems for both LCD and semiconductor manufacturing and provides a source of real-time factory floor information for more efficient and productive business decisions." Brooks' CLASS MCS is the market leader in semiconductor factories.
Brooks has built on its leadership in the semiconductor market to quickly become the leading MCS provider for flat panel manufacturers as well.
Brooks CLASS MCS is now installed at the leading LCD manufacturers worldwide, including LG-Philips, Samsung, ChiMei and AUO among others.
CLASS MCS offers customers the ability to add additional functionality to meet their unique manufacturing needs through the MCS Developer's ToolKit (MDK).
"The MDK is a key differentiator for the CLASS MCS," stated Jeff Burnham, Product Manager for MCS at Brooks Software.
"The MDK enables the CLASS MCS to give manufacturers the best of both worlds - a full-featured, off-the-shelf MCS and the ability to easily modify that MCS to match specific manufacturing environments and processes.
With the MDK, manufacturers are able to pick the best hardware products to support their manufacturing needs without concern about how to integrate these disparate hardware products into a real time manufacturing environment.
CLASS MCS can support multiple material control hardware systems in the customers' overall CIM architecture and framework." * About CLASS MCS - CLASS MCS is a real-time, material control system for transporting and storing wafers, LCD panels and other materials in factories.
It is the most proven, reliable, and flexible commercial MCS on the market.
With a worldwide installed base that includes nearly every major semiconductor manufacturer and the four largest LCD manufacturers, CLASS MCS is proven in some of the world's most complex and demanding manufacturing environments.
* 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 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 and defense, automotive, high tech, life sciences and semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.
* About Brooks Automation - Brooks Automation (NASDAQ: BRKS) 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.
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