Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. announces an EDA standards-compliant release of ControlWORKS

January 4, 2008, Plano, TX: Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. (ACT) announces the availability of ControlWORKS 4.3, an EDA standards-compliant release of ControlWORKS. Continually enhanced to adhere to industry standards, this latest release of ControlWORKS incorporates the EDA (Equipment Data Acquisition) suite of SEMI standards as well as updates to the SEMI E40 and E94 standards that include support for process job recipe variables, improved support for control job control rules and output rules, and an update of the process job and control job state machines. This release also includes an improved store export interface to facilitate code sharing and customer support.

"We are pleased to continue to offer our customers a standards-compliant, platform-independent development environment maintained by our talented team of engineers. We know that when our customer’s succeed, we succeed. When they can concentrate on the issues that add the highest value to their tool control application, we all win,” says Becky Cooper, Deputy Director of Control Systems at Adventa Control Technologies, Inc.

ControlWORKS is a fully integrated, object-oriented development environment that enables applications to be fully portable in several hardware/operating systems. Specifically designed to control semiconductor process equipment, ControlWORKS minimizes the expense and time-to-market associated with developing control applications. ControlWORKS, which has been deployed in production since 1994, has shipped over 10,000 systems to date.

Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. (ACT) provides control and productivity software to semiconductor OEM's and semiconductor manufacturing facilities. For over 10 years, ACT systems have proven themselves in the demanding world of 24/7 production on thousands of tools worldwide. Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas and is an affiliate of The Gores Group. To learn more about ControlWORKS or other ACT products, visit the products page of our website, email us, or call at (972) 543-1753.