Animatics Integrated Servo Motors

• Industry: Semiconductor
• Application: Input/Output Stacker, Wafer Handling
• Benefit: Cable Cost Savings and Reduced Size
• Case Study: Semiconductor Heat Chamber Automation

Animatics was recently approached by one of the largest suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to help find a motor in production that fit their 15+ year old controller. The problem was whatever new motion system they used had to be able to understand command protocol from their host system. The alternative, changing the command protocol in their state of the art system just to accommodate the motor's language, was not an option.

"We were able to reprogram our SmartMotor™ to parse their command string. The interrupt feature in the Class 5 SmartMotor made it much easier to control the structure of the program, especially the parser ," said Minh Tran, Sr. Application Engineer for Animatics.

Download the complete case study Semiconductor Heat Chamber Automation Saves Space & Cabling Costs to learn the details of the SmartMotor saving cost and space in the input/output stacker application.

More Motion Control Examples in Semiconductor Industry

• Moving vision equipment while scanning wafers for defects
• Wafer handling though vacuum sealed chamber for metallization/deposition
• Dicing silicon substrates to separate individual microcircuits
• Input/output stacking between wafer processing
• Pick and place applications for final wafer packaging

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