Our Innovation Your Advantage

Nidec Genmark Automation’s position as a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance material handling and integrated systems has been achieved by constantly introducing and implementing cutting edge technologies in robotics and automation. Some important highlights about our technologies and their benefits can be found below.

The manipulating robots currently performing material handling in the semiconductor industry can be classified into three major categories: robots with up to four Degrees Of Freedom (DOF), working in cylindrical coordinates; universal articulated arms with 6 or more DOF; and hybrid parallel-series manipulators with 6 or more DOF, combining the motion characteristics of cylindrical robots and of a special kind of closed-loop mechanisms, available in the industry since the early 1980s.

Nowadays, the overall productivity of semiconductor fabs is becoming more and more dependent on the performance of the robotic systems responsible for material handling within the front end and back end minienvironments. Regardless of how long particular processes take, the time for exchanging an already processed wafer with an unprocessed one always presents a bottleneck when it comes to increasing processing machine performance.