Bosch Rexroth Semiconductor Industry Brochure Highlights Value of Automation


New brochure demonstrates solutions to maximize productivity and gain a competitive edge

(Hoffman Estates, IL - www.boschrexroth-us.com) - Bosch Rexroth's new semiconductor industry brochure offers an array of information to help tool builders and fab operators increase efficiency by reducing cycle time, maximizing uptime, boosting fab throughput, and improving productivity.

Available for free download from www.boschrexroth-us.com/semicon, the new brochure highlights how Bosch Rexroth Electric Drive and Controls, Linear Motion, Assembly, and Pneumatic products and technologies can be applied in application areas such as wafer handling, chip handling, metrology, wire bonding, and photovoltaic production.

For example, the brochure explains how modular systems provide cost benefits by utilizing flexible components and subassemblies that reduce tool design and assembly time.

Motion and control capabilities and subsystems are also highlighted in the brochure, demonstrating how they can help customers achieve cost-effective solutions and enable OEMs to focus on their core competencies.

For process efficiency, the brochure details how pneumatics can help with high precision, fast response times and lower maintenance costs.

Readers will also learn how highly accurate, interchangeable, and maintenance-free linear motion components help reduce total cost of ownership.

As part of the Robert Bosch Group, one of the world's leading fabricators of semiconductors for automotive applications, Bosch Rexroth has years of in-house experience related to semiconductor manufacturing. Rexroth's proven electronic, pneumatic, linear motion and assembly technologies are engineered to work together, helping customers reduce cycle time, maximize uptime, boost fab throughput, and improve productivity. In addition, the company offers unique value as a global partner with excellent local resources focused on helping customers get the most out of their production systems.

To download a free copy of the brochure, please visit www.boschrexroth-us.com/semicon.

In the semiconductor and photovoltaic manufacturing industry Bosch Rexroth offers drive, motion, and control products for front- and back-end equipment, interbay automated material-handling systems, and support equipment-covering electronic drives and controls, linear motion, and pneumatics. Rexroth servo motors, drives, and controls, HMIs, and I/O systems allow precise multi-axis controls. Linear motion Ball Rail® systems cover the range of speeds, precision, and load capacity and include cleanroom-certified systems. A pneumatics line, beyond miniature and standard valves and cylinders, includes non-contact transfer units, rotary indexers, wafer-handling frames, and grippers. The company also provides cleanroom-certified structural aluminum framing that allows fast configuration of everything from workstations to work cells.

Bosch Rexroth AG, part of the Bosch Group, achieved sales of approximately $7.4 billion (5.4 billion Euros) in 2007 with nearly 33,000 employees. Under the brand name of Rexroth the company offers all drive and control technologies, from mechanics, hydraulics and pneumatics to electronics and associated service. Over 500,000 customers worldwide utilize Rexroth's unique technological know-how to implement their innovative and future-oriented systems and machine concepts. The global player, represented in over 80 countries, is an extensive supplier of components and systems for industrial and factory automation and mobile applications. Visit www.boschrexroth-us.com for more information.

For more information, please contact
Bosch Rexroth Corporation
Joachim Scholz
Telephone (859) 254-8031
Fax (859) 281-3483
joachim.scholz@boschrexroth-us.com

Godfrey Public Relations
Todd Walter
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Telephone (717) 393-3831 ext. 133
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