Summary : Mihir Parikh tells us about the big Automation Do's and Don'ts
Annexure :
Mihir Parikh tells us about the big Automation Do's and Don'ts. Lesson's he learned across the years from the earliest attempts to automate semiconductor wafer fabs at IBM with its legendary QTAT line, through Hewlett Packard, and eventually to his start-up, Asyst, which enabled the rise of the semiconductor foundries in Taiwan with his mini-environment technology that kept tools and wafers in small enclosed boxes he called SMIF pods, which stood for Standard Mechanical InterFace. It was the forerunner of today's 300mm FOUPs (Front Opening Universal Pod).