Brooks Automation, Inc. Receives Multi-Million Dollar Order from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. for CLASS MCS Material Control System.Business/Technology Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2001 Samsung will use CLASS MCS to control the Automated Material Handling System for its next generation 200mm and 300mm fabs. 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 industry, today announced that it has received a multi-million dollar order from 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. Co., Ltd. for the newest release of the CLASS MCS(TM) Material Control System. Samsung began deployment of CLASS MCS version 4.x in South Korea beginning in Spring 2001. Brooks' CLASS MCS will help Samsung coordinate material tracking, WIP WIP Work In Progress WIP Work in Process WIP World Internet Project WIP Women in Prison (movie genre) WIP World Institute of Pain WIP Wash-In-Place WIP Women in Publishing WIP Work In Place WIP Wireless Internet Protocol tracking and real-time dispatching functions in order to better manage the complex logistics of material handling. Brooks' Material Control Systems have been chosen by most Samsung fabs world-wide, making Brooks the exclusive provider of Material Control Systems to Samsung's automated fabs around the world. "Samsung is a leader in the semiconductor business and a valued customer," said Van Norman, vice president, Brooks Automation, Inc. "Once again, Samsung has chosen Brooks to provide it with the latest MCS technology. We look forward to helping Samsung automate its next generation fabs using CLASS MCS." Brooks' CLASS MCS tracks movement and storage of lots, reticles and other materials, providing real-time material control for fab-wide interbay and intrabay 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 equipment. Designed for maximum efficiency and reliability, the new release of CLASS MCS features a greatly improved user interface, the highest system availability in the industry, real-time dynamic reconfiguration, automatic system failover, and internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation support. Brooks Material Control Systems are the only Material Control Systems that support interbay and intrabay AMHS equipment from multiple vendors, allowing semiconductor manufacturers to choose best-in-class AMHS products without having to purchase and install a new MCS and retrain re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train operators in its use. CLASS MCS supports the new IB SEM and Stocker SEM standards and is fully integrated with Brooks' MES (Manufacturing Execution Software) Software that provides real time access to plant activities that include equipment, labor, orders and inventory. An MES integrates the data with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems so that management has complete control of and equipment automation applications. About Brooks Automation, Inc. Brooks Automation, Inc. is the 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. As an established market leader in hardware and software automation, Brooks continues to pioneer "Best-in-Class" technologies that outperform their competitors--from vacuum and atmospheric 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, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. Brooks' web-site is www.brooks.com. About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductors, the consumer electronics industry, and digital convergence technology. With year 2000 sales of US $27 billion, Samsung employs approximately 66,000 people in 46 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of memory chips, TFT-LCDs, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. mobile phones and monitors and the sixth-largest manufacturer of mobile phones. Samsung Electronics consists of four main business units: Digital Media, Semiconductor, Information & Communications, and Home Appliance Businesses. For more information, please visit http:/www.samsungelectronics.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. 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