Brooks' CLASS MCS 5 Material Control System Demonstrates Interoperability With Independent Automated Material Handling System Equipment at a 300mm Samsung Facility in South Korea.Business/Technology Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2002 Brooks Automation, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BRKS BRKS Brooks (street suffix) ), a leading supplier of tool and factory hardware and software automation solutions for the global semiconductor and related industries, offers manufacturers the flexibility to inter-operate with multiple-vendor automated material handling system (AMHS AMHS ATS Message Handling System (air traffic control) AMHS Alaska Marine Highway System AMHS Automated Message Handling System AMHS Aeronautical Message Handling System AMHS Academic Magnet High School ) hardware using the CLASS MCS(TM) 5 material control system. CLASS MCS 5, recently installed at a 300mm facility of Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. in South Korea, is providing interoperability of independent AMHS equipment. This ensures that Samsung -- and other semiconductor manufacturers that use CLASS MCS 5 -- will be able to select the best vendors for different components of material handling without being concerned about whether the vendor's equipment is compatible with their MCS. "As manufacturing environments become more complex and automation requirements grow, our customers are combining AMHS equipment from multiple vendors within the same facility. This allows manufacturing facilities more flexibility in designing and operating automated material movement systems in the clean room environment. An MCS that is compatible with and able to control equipment from multiple AMSH vendors within the same facility supports this trend," said Mike Thompson For other persons named Mike Thompson, see Mike Thompson (disambiguation). C. Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's At-large , vice president and general manager of Brooks Planning and Logistics Solutions. CLASS MCS 5, installed in semiconductor facilities worldwide, meets industry challenges with capabilities that include interbay and intrabay movement, dynamic configuration, and an easy and intuitive administrator interface. CLASS MCS 5 has one of the most highly available systems in the industry and provides support for all major AMHS equipment. It employs SEMI standards for AMHS equipment automation (IB SEM, E-82 and Stocker SEM, E-88). CLASS MCS 5 manages the scheduling, transportation, and storage of carriers in a manufacturing environment. It controls the AMHS equipment through the management of stockers, transport equipment, automatic identification systems and by tracking the movement of material in the facility. With approximately 125 automated facilities in operation, Brooks Automation is recognized as a world leader in MCS solutions. Brooks Automation, Inc. Brooks Automation, Inc. is a leading global supplier of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and tool automation and factory management software for the semiconductor, data storage and flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation . As an established player in hardware and software automation, Brooks continues to pioneer "Best-in-Class" technologies that outperform their competitors -- from vacuum robots, cluster tool platforms and modules, ultra-clean mini-environments for isolating processing equipment and wafers -- to factory and tool automation software and integration services. Both OEM and fab customers leverage Brooks Automation's products and environments. The Company has ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certification, is headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., and has direct operations in 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. , Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and China. Brooks' web site is www.brooks.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: The foregoing discussion contains forward-looking statements relating to the expected benefits of the Brooks Automation products sold to Samsung Electronics. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, risks relating to the manner in which the customer uses the products and integrates the products with other components, the Company's dependence on the cyclical semiconductor industry, the ability of the Company to continue to successfully develop and market new products and product enhancements on a timely basis, the Company's dependence on relatively few customers for a significant portion of its revenues, the Company's reliance on sales to OEM customers and the lengthy sales cycles of those customers, the highly competitive nature and rapid technological change that characterize the industries in which the Company competes, and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company's reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, there can be no assurance that the Company's future results will not be materially different from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only of the Company's expectations as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. |
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