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October 2005: Adventa continues to move ControlWORKS forward with new features and functionality.

ControlWORKS, the most widely used commercial machine control software in the semiconductor industry, once again moves forward with more features and functionality to satisfy the most stringent requirements for semiconductor processing. Over the last twelve years, semiconductor equipment OEM’s worldwide have used ControlWORKS to manage productions tools for exposure, etch, deposition, annealing, and CMP processes for the manufacture of semiconductor and MEMS devices.

“The OEM equipment market is getting more competitive every year,” said a representative for Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. “Customer demands for state-of-the-art tools, short delivery cycles, high equipment utilization, and worldwide 24/7 customer support really tax the equipment and process control engineers at OEM companies. These engineers are stretched to the point that they rarely have time to develop new control functionality and meet the ever-changing SEMI standards for machine control and communication to factory control systems. This is where Adventa adds a lot of value. While our customers are busy building and shipping new process tools, we work in the background to deliver the new functionality that their customers, the IDM’s, require. We commit the resources to meet SEMI standards and work closely with Sematech to make sure that ControlWORKS delivers the equipment and process data necessary to enable and support Advanced Process Control in production fabs. Our customers just don’t have the time and resources to make that investment so we do that for them."

Here's a sample of what ControlWORKS 4.2 has to offer:

• SEMI E116, Equipment Performance Tracking (EPT).

• MultiGEM. This feature gives the equipment multiple GEM connections to factory applications, each independent of the other.

• SECSLog. This component logs all SECS-II message traffic between the equipment and the primary GEM host. A new UI screen allows the operator to view the log.

• Automated Maintenance Scheduling (AMS). This is a new feature in which process module maintenance operations may be defined as jobs run by the scheduler.

ControlWORKS 4.3 with have more exciting features and enhancements to the 300mm standards, Interface A, and introductory pieces of Interface B. Like the semiconductor industry, product development never stops at Adventa Control Technologies, Inc.

Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. is an affiliate of The Gores Group.