Applied Materials Announces Equipment Industry's First Fab Start-up Solution to Accelerate Customers' Time to Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002 Ramp Performance Management Service Delivers Rapid Tool Installation for Enhanced Fab Profitability Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (HKSE: 4336 ) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar , Inc. announces its new RPM (Ramp Performance Management(TM)) program, the equipment industry's first turnkey service for installing process equipment in customers' new and existing fabs. As part of Applied Materials' Total Service Solutions(TM) product line, the RPM program is designed to enable semiconductor manufacturers to ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale their new systems faster and reach production capability earlier. "For a $2 billion fab investment, reducing overall construction time has a major impact on customer profitability Customer profitability (CP) is the difference between the revenues earned from and the costs associated with the customer relationship in a specified period. According to Philip Kotler,"a profitable customer is a person,household or a company that overtime,yields a revenue , not to mention having the advantage of shipping high-value chips earlier," said David Fried David Fried is a political leader in Rockland County, New York, United States. He was born in Anaheim, California, but has lived in Rockland County since childhood. He is a graduate of Manhattanville College and studied law at the Cardozo School of Law. , corporate vice president and general manager of Applied Materials' Customer Productivity Support Group. "With our Ramp Performance Management program we see an additional opportunity to help customers streamline and accelerate the system hookup hookup, n in the Trager method of therapy, the practitioner enters into a meditative state along with the patient, which allows him or her to work more intuitively and to feel subtle changes in the patient's movement and tissue texture. phase of fab construction, which traditionally has been a complex overlap of fab management, construction, architectural and engineering firms, and equipment suppliers." The RPM program combines Applied Materials' extensive expertise installing thousands of systems at virtually every chip manufacturing facility in the world with the experience of key industry construction firms to offer comprehensive project management of the hook-up, installation and start-up of fab equipment. The RPM service has already been demonstrated at customer fabs in Europe, Singapore and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , where it provided a dramatic reduction in system installation time, and enabled accelerated fab start-up schedules. "Applied Materials continues to invest in developing innovative ways to help our customers increase their revenue and profitability," stated Fried. "With our RPM service, we've found a way to integrate system start-up activities to enable substantially reduced tool hookup times. By performing all aspects of the tool startup process, including integration of planning, design, material procurement, construction and tool qualification, we believe we can achieve significant time and cost savings for our customers." Applied Materials (Nasdaq:AMAT AMAT Applied Materials (stock symbol) AMAT Average Memory Access Time AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter AMAT Anti-Materiel (bomb or mine) AMAT Ageing Management Assessment Team ), the largest supplier of products and services to the global semiconductor industry, is one of the world's leading information infrastructure providers. Applied Materials enables Information for Everyone(TM) by helping semiconductor manufacturers produce more powerful, portable and affordable chips. Applied Materials' Web site is http://www.appliedmaterials.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.012202/bb3 |
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