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Published Date: Sept. 14, 2001
Company Name: FuGasity Corporation
Address: 19 Columbia Drive
Amherst, NH 03031
Main Telephone
Number: 1-800-FuGasity (384-2748) or 603/577-8700
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.fugasity.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Chris Davis
Public Relations
Contact: Rich Booth
Business number: 214/632-6492
E-mail address: rbooth@fugasity.com
Industry: Flow control solutions for the semiconductor
industry
Company description: FuGasity has developed a revolutionary line of products designed for the semiconductor industry to address the problems associated with conventional thermal mass Thermal mass, in the most general sense, is any mass that absorbs and holds heat. In the architectural sense, it is any mass that absorbs and stores heat during sunny periods when the heat is not desirable in the living space of a building, and then releases the heat during flow controllers (TMFCs). FuGasity's products consist of an empirically characterized manual flow controller (Neo), a pressure based flow controller (Criterion), a portable, integrated rate of change analytical tool (ROC), and a series of diagnostic aids, which include MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class adapters (Connect'alls), data acquisition modules (Echo) and a mass flow meter A mass flow meter, also known as inertial flow meter and coriolis flow meter, is a device that measures how much fluid is flowing through a tube. It does not measure the volume of the fluid passing through the tube, it measures the amount of mass flowing through the transient response In electrical engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a transient response or natural response is the response of a system to a change from equilibrium. Specifically, transient response in Mechanical Engineering is the portion of the response that approaches zero after a device (Crucis). Company Background FuGasity Corporation was formed in May 1998 by a team of semiconductor industry veterans to commercialize software and hardware products to address serious problems associated with one of the components involved in the manufacture of semiconductor chips. FuGasity's technology had its genesis in 1990, when William W. White was working in the equipment engineering group at Advanced Micro Devices Corporation ("AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. "). Mr. White noticed the TMFCs the company used in manufacturing chips were not performing according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. manufacturers' specifications. He noted that the problems were related to the consistency and predictability of results. These issues with TMFCs were not unique to AMD, and in 1992 a group of semiconductor manufacturers and TMFC suppliers formed a task force with the objective of assessing and resolving the issues associated with TMFCs. This group was called the SEMATECH SEMATECH Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Materials and Components Improvement, Mass Flow Controller A mass flow controller (MFC) is a device used to measure and control the flow of gases. A mass flow controller is designed and calibrated to control a specific type of gas at a particular range of flow rates. Evaluation, Test, Development Task Force. Mr. White was the team leader for the "Performance Evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return " group. One of the conclusions the task force reached was that in order to ascertain the nature and magnitude of the errors encountered by different TMFCs, it would be necessary to test the TMFCs with the actual process gases that would be used in them under various operating conditions opposed to an inert substitute gas (referred to as a "surrogate gas"). The theory was that with this information, it would be possible to adjust TMFCs to correct for the errors being encountered. During this time, Mr. White teamed with Christopher Davis, an established veteran of the semiconductor industry, and formed FuGasity Corporation in order to further advance mass flow control technology solutions. From the beginning, empirical data regarding various process gases has been the cornerstone of FuGasity's approach to the flow controller problem. In order to obtain the empirical data regarding the process gas to be used in a given flow controller, an Empirical Data Facility was constructed in Sparks, Nev. FuGasity's approach to flow control technology stands in stark contrast to the current industry practice with conventional TMFCs. Under the conventional approach, a surrogate gas such as nitrogen is used to set the initial calibration of the TMFC. Then "a correction factor" is applied to the TMFC for the actual process gas that will be used in it. When the TMFC's operation is in question, the device is typically shipped off site from the chip manufacturer's facility, which means there are time delays and potential production interruptions to deal with for these critical devices. FuGasity has verified, based on its own experience and on information derived from industry publications, that the conventional method of surrogate gas calibration can result in TMFC errors of up to +/-30% of the intended flow setting (referred to in the industry as the "set point"). With the data generated at the Empirical Data Facility, FuGasity has demonstrated an ability to reduce these errors from a maximum of approximately +/-30% of set point, using current TMFC technology, to a maximum of approximately +/-1% of set point, using FuGasity Pressure Based Flow Controllers and software. FuGasity has shown that their family of products significantly improves flow control effectiveness, and increases reliability and reduces the downtime associated with component maintenance during the semiconductor manufacturing process. Simply stated, FuGasity's products result in a significant reduction in cost of ownership to both the manufacturers of chip-making equipment (referred to in the industry as original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs), and the semiconductor manufacturers that are the end users of that equipment. Key Personnel Chris Davis Chris Davis is the name of a couple of people:
Chris has 18 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Chris finished his BS in Chemical Engineering in 1984 from the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. -- Lowell. He worked at Millipore Corporation For other uses, see Millipore. Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL) founded in 1954, listed among the S&P 500 since the early 1990s, is an international biosciences company, known widely for its micrometer pore-size filters and tests. from 1982-1988. During that time he developed eleven products used in the semiconductor industry. Chris joined the R&D department of Mott Metallurgical Corporation in 1988, where he was responsible for the development of porous metal filters for ultra high-efficiency gas filtration and high purity porous metal restrictors. He was named as inventor on a U.S. patent for this work in 1992 and co-authored two technical papers published in 1991 and 1992. Chris moved to product marketing at Mott in 1991 to develop semiconductor sales domestically and internationally, and increased sales from zero to $6 million dollars annually in three years. Chris then moved to Span Instruments Corporation in International Sales, where he managed the European and Asian sales from $3.5 million to $7 million in the 1994-1995 fiscal year. In 1996 he started the Texas division of Aztech Controls Corporation, which generated sales from zero to just over $3.5 million in the 1997 fiscal year, and in 1998 Chris became the president of Aztech Controls Corporation. Chris stepped down as the president of Aztech Controls in January 2000 to become the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of FuGasity. William W. White -- Executive Vice President, Research and Development Trained in Physics in 1978 at M. D. Anderson Hospital, Bill began his career working in dosimetry dosimetry /do·sim·e·try/ (do-sim´e-tre) scientific determination of amount, rate, and distribution of radiation emitted from a source of ionizing radiation, in biological d. and calibration at the Cancer Research Center of the M.D. Anderson Medical Center in Houston. He moved to California in 1979 and worked in a series of positions at 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 Corporation and Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation before joining Advanced Micro Devices Corporation (AMD). He worked at AMD in its Fab 3 location and later had equipment engineering responsibility for gas delivery systems in the construction and commissioning for AMD in its Submicron Development Center. During that time he chaired a SEMATECH task force to generate TMFC standards and measurement techniques. He was also responsible for equipment selection and specifications for gas delivery systems during the construction of AMD's Fab 25 in Austin, Texas. Bill left AMD in early 1995 to found W3 Corporation with his father, William H. White For other persons of the same name, see William White. In 1892 William H. White published "The Architect and his artists, an essay to assist the public in considering the question is architecture a profession or an art" in reply to "Architecture, a Profession or an Art" edited , to provide actual gas calibrations for gas systems. They built the Empirical Data Facility in Sparks, Nev., which is capable of safely circulating hazardous gases through a NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. traceable calibration facility. The facility was built with the capability to put the gas back into the supply bottle after use. This facility has been in operation since early 1997 and has used twenty different types of gases common in semiconductor manufacturing to calibrate To adjust or bring into balance. Scanners, CRTs and similar peripherals may require periodic adjustment. Unlike digital devices, the electronic components within these analog devices may change from their original specification. See color calibration and tweak. over 300 Mass Flow Controllers in sizes from 10 standard cubic centimeters per second to 2 standard liters per minute. Bill has been working full time with FuGasity since January 2000. Daniel T. Mudd, PE -- Senior Director of Product Development A licensed Professional Engineer, Dan Mudd has over 14 years experience in the semiconductor industry focusing on the design and development of mass flow control technology. Most recently, Dan founded Mass Flow Associates where he served as president and principal designer of mass flow controller diagnostic equipment. Before founding Mass Flow Associates, Dan was manager of Semiconductor Flow Products at Millipore-Tylan General. In this role, Dan was the principal designer for their new flow control products and headed the development of improved mass flow sensors A mass flow sensor responds to the amount of a fluid (usually a gas) flowing through a chamber containing the sensor. It is intended to be insensitive to the density of the fluid. . While at Tylan, he achieved a 300% stability improvement on prototypes for their thermal mass flow sensors. Previous to Millipore-Tylan General, Dan was product manager for DXL (Domino eXtensible Language) A version of XML for Domino-based data. An XSLT processor is used to convert DXL data to XML data for external use. See Lotus Notes. International where he designed, developed prototypes and coordinated production of mass flow controllers. Other career highlights include; McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It merged with Boeing in 1997 to form The Boeing Company. Corporation where he served as section manager of Manufacturing Equipment and Process Engineering, and General Motors Corporation where he served as maintenance supervisor and plant engineer. Dan's accomplishments include 20 international patents, 10 issued U.S. patents, 4 patents pending, member of the technical advisory board for Tylan while employed there, developed logic algorithms used in digital controller software and repeatedly recognized for outstanding job performance. Dan received his Master of Science in Engineering Noun 1. Master of Science in Engineering - a master's degree in engineering master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree Management and Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri. FuGasity Locations State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility in Amherst, N.H. FuGasity has leased a 13,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Amherst, N.H. Manufacturing, engineering, quality control, purchasing, inside sales and shipping and receiving are performed at this facility. Rick Emery, who has managed manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. for Honeywell Inc., Millipore Corporation and Mott Corporation, manages the manufacturing facility for FuGasity as director of operations. The location of this facility is one half of an hour from our Strategic Partner Honeywell Corporation in Acton, Mass. Research and Development Lab in Sparks, Nev. FuGasity's Research and Development facility is located in Sparks, Nev. This location houses the Empirical Data Facility. Corporate Offices in Allen, Texas Allen is a city in Collin County and a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas (USA). As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 43,554. As of April 2007, the city's population is estimated at 77,465. FuGasity's corporate offices are located centrally to the high-tech and telecom corridors just north of Dallas in Allen, Texas. Distributorship FuGasity has a worldwide presence through the partnership and participation of key geographical semiconductor distributors. |
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