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Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:35:17 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox   
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its Applied E3(TM) advanced equipment and process control solution, a comprehensive factory automation (FA) software package for improving the productivity and reducing the costs of semiconductor, flat panel display and photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing. Utilizing proprietary algorithms, the Applied E3 system can boost process capability by >30%, reduce unscheduled down time, and shorten cycle time to achieve up to a 20% increase in overall equipment effectiveness. The Applied E3 system uniquely integrates all critical equipment automation and process control components to deliver the most flexible, user-friendly and powerful fab-wide Equipment Engineering System solution on the market today.
"Customers understand that equipment automation is a huge opportunity to exploit the unused potential of their existing assets and to reduce costs," said Manfred Kerschbaum, senior vice president and general manager of Applied Global Services. "The E3 system revolutionizes equipment automation and control technology, which has historically been complex and expensive to implement and maintain. With its graphical development environment and pre-configured modules, the Applied E3 system is quick to deploy and easy to update and extend, offering a fast and cost-effective route to raise factory output. The Applied E3 system has been enthusiastically received by multiple major manufacturers and is currently being used in volume production."
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