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Boston / London June 2022 – Leading surplus asset management company, EquipNet Inc., announced enhancements to its Equipment Sustainability Programs. Since 1999, EquipNet has been helping global manufacturers to track, redeploy, buy, and sell surplus manufacturing assets, contributing to clients’ overall sustainability goals even before those goals were created.

EquipNet has improved its proprietary Asset Management System (ARMS), a web-based tracking software, to not only track idle equipment throughout the enterprise but measure landfill avoidance on a global scale. This comprehensive software ensures cost savings through the redeployment of equipment from facilities that no longer have a use for the assets to locations that can use the machines. Now with the landfill avoidance tracking, the system also contributes to sustainable management. Just in the last few years, EquipNet’s clients have diverted 200,000 tonnes of waste from landfills.

“Creating a more sustainable environment for global manufacturers has been at the heart of what we do for almost a quarter of a century,” says Ben Potenza, VP of Sales & Marketing. “Redeploying and selling well-maintained equipment is only part of the story. Now we can help our clients illustrate real impact on the circular economy by tracking landfill avoidance.”

Equipment Sustainability Programs unlock idle machinery potential and contribute to positive corporate citizenship by extending machinery’s useful life, as well as delivering substantial cost avoidance to the enterprise. It’s the essence of a circular economy.

About EquipNet
EquipNet is a leading provider of proactive asset management solutions and services to leading corporations in the pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, industrial, and consumer packaged goods industries. EquipNet’s vision is to revolutionize the way companies manage their surplus assets by maximizing financial returns and minimizing the risks associated with idle capital assets. If you have surplus you are looking to sell, or are looking for pre-owned equipment at an affordable price, visit us at www.EquipNet.com.

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CHANDLER, AZ — Yield Engineering Systems (YES) has leased 123,000 square feet within the Price Corridor in Chandler, Arizona. The facility will support YES in serving the region’s thriving semiconductor industry.

YES develops and manufactures thermal, deposition, and wet process equipment that is used in semiconductor, life sciences, and display manufacturing. The Chandler facility will house a “Technology Center” with R&D functions, cleanroom operations, advanced manufacturing, customer support, and office space.

“Our new Technology Center will provide us with valuable proximity to key customers and vendors, as well as access to the highly skilled workforce that defines Chandler’s business ecosystem,” said Rezwan Lateef, President of YES. “We are grateful to Chandler’s Economic Development team, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, and Arizona Commerce Authority for their assistance with this major milestone in our mission to serve the semiconductor market as a preferred provider.” Mark Donahue is the local YES manager overseeing the project.

The company plans to have approximately 100 highly educated employees based at the Chandler facility, mostly in technology and engineering positions. The multi-million-dollar capital investment to build out the space will enable the development of advanced technology that supports the US semiconductor manufacturing sector.

“YES marks another California-based company drawn to Arizona, highlighting the state’s unmatched business climate,” said Sandra Watson, President and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. “We are grateful to YES for their commitment to Arizona, creating new jobs while strengthening the state’s robust semiconductor supply chain.”

"The Greater Phoenix semiconductor ecosystem has quickly become a top global destination for leading manufacturers like YES," said Chris Camacho, President and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. "This multimillion-dollar investment provides high-quality job opportunities for residents, and we look forward to supporting YES in its future growth and successful integration into the market."

“The long-term vision for Price Corridor continues to be realized as we welcome another dynamic and market-leading company to Chandler,“ said Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke. “We would like to thank YES for their investment and trust in Chandler, as we know there are many options throughout the world for cutting-edge facilities like this.”

Yield Engineering Systems’ Chandler facility adds to the state’s booming semiconductor industry. In the past six months, EMD Electronics announced an expansion of its chemical delivery systems business at a new factory in Chandler, creating over 100 jobs and Edwards announced a new manufacturing facility also in Chandler, creating 200 jobs.

Media Contacts
Victoria Barnes, Yield Engineering Systems, [email protected]
Alyssa Tufts, Arizona Commerce Authority, [email protected]
Stephanie Romero, City of Chandler, [email protected]

About Yield Engineering Systems (YES)
Yield Engineering Systems, Inc. (YES) is a preferred provider of high-tech, cost-effective equipment for enhancing surfaces and materials. The company’s product lines include thermal processing systems, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems, and wet process equipment used for the precise surface modification of semiconductor substrates, semiconductor and MEMS devices, LED displays, and biodevices. Customers ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies rely on YES systems to create and volume-produce innovative products in a wide range of markets. YES is headquartered in Fremont, California, with a growing global presence. For more information, please visit yieldengineering.com.

About the Arizona Commerce Authority
The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) is the state's leading economic development organization with a streamlined mission to grow and strengthen Arizona's economy. The ACA uses a three-pronged approach to advance the overall economy: attract, expand, create - attract out-of-state companies to establish operations in Arizona; work with existing companies to expand their business in Arizona and beyond; and help entrepreneurs create new Arizona businesses in targeted industries. For more information, please visit azcommerce.com and follow the ACA on Twitter @azcommerce.

About City of Chandler, Arizona
Chandler, Arizona has built a reputation as a Community of Innovation. Life in Chandler goes beyond a thriving and dynamic business community with progressive entrepreneurship. Known for its rich diversity, the City offers an outstanding quality of life for all generations with great schools and recreational opportunities. Chandler has grown to become the state's fourth largest City with a population of more than 281,000. Chandler has been named one of the nation's Best Places to Find a Job and Best Cities for Women in Tech. The City also is one of the safest communities in the nation and boasts AAA bond ratings from all three national rating agencies, one of only 40 communities to achieve this distinction. For more information, visit the City website, or connect with the City on social media.

Würzburg, Germany / Brisbane, Australia – The Australian National Fabrication Facility – Queensland Node (ANFF-Q) based at the University of Queensland, Australia has placed a purchase order for the recently launched Two-Photon Polymerization tool MPO 100. The system, developed by Multiphoton Optics GmbH and manufactured by its parent company Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH, will provide cutting-edge fabrication capability in nano- and microfabrication to ANFF-Q.

“ANFF-Q is an open-door R&D facility assisting clients from industry and academia to progress their products. To expand our fabrication capabilities, ANFF-Q was looking for a nano 3D printer with highest printing resolution as well as advanced fabrication techniques and the MPO 100 met all our criteria”, says Anthony Christian, ANFF-Q Manager. “The technical details of the MPO 100 stand out from other potential candidates - especially the achievable resolution of 100 nanometers as a pivotal parameter and the very attractive stitching-free fabrication capability”, adds Juan Li, Senior Professional Officer Micro- and Nanofabrication at ANFF-Q.

ANFF-Q serves a wider scope of applications than normal R&D facilities and provides a safe, IP neutral environment where the clients’ designs and developments remain their property. The MPO 100 will be used for target applications in micro-optics, microfluidics, micro needles, and diffractive optical elements. The system will be the third Heidelberg Instruments machine after the MLA 150 and a µPG101, which are already in place at ANFF-Q.

“The MPO 100 was officially introduced into the market end at the end of January in 2022. The purchase of the tool by ANFF-Q was one of the first orders and confirms the customer-oriented development of the system. We are looking forward to a close collaboration with ANFF-Q”, says Dr. Benedikt Stender, CEO of Multiphoton Optics.

During the tender, Multiphoton Optics was supported by Heidelberg Instruments’ local distributor Nano Vacuum, which have already worked closely on several successful projects with ANFF-Q. “We are thrilled to be able to bring the first MPO 100 system to Australia. With over 25 years of experience in the nanofabrication industry, Nano Vacuum is always eager to see the conception of innovative tools and cutting-edge technologies in the research space!”, says Dr. Ava Faridi, Product Manager at Nano Vacuum.

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Executive Director, Strategic Planning, Mgmt Systems & Sustainability
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Sustainability Approaches for the Semiconductor Materials Industry

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Two overarching business issues face the industry today – how to responsibly create sustainability strategies and how to find and train strong workers.  Both issues are challenging management teams to think creatively and change fundamental processes of their business. 

SEMI members are looking to SEMI to provide industry-wide guidance and support to share best practices, build grassroots processes, and guidebooks that both large and small companies can use to improve their efforts.

Attend this webinar to get an update and insights, with a special tilt toward the materials industry, on how you can incorporate SEMI guidebooks for hiring qualified and diverse DEI and Veterans hiring, as well as other efforts toward strengthening your workforce.  On the Sustainability topic, hear how the industry is coming together to help each other in Scope 1,2, and 3 measuring and reporting mechanisms, and more!

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This webinar unveiled the details of the 5-year $5M per year ($25M total) Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Phase 2 (PNT2) funded R&D Program starting in 2022.  The formal Request for Proposals (RFP) is expected on June 6, 2022.

The PNT2 program follows a successful Phase 1 program that saw 10 projects funded over 2 years starting in 2020 ($6M total funding).

Watch to learn how you can respond to the PNT2 RFP.  Topics covered:

  • technical thrust area
  • cost share requirements
  • proposal instructions
  • team requirements
  • Q&A

About the Speaker

Dr. Paul Carey joined SEMI in April 2021 and is responsible for managing the MSIG PNT program, the MSIG webinars, and supporting the Manufacturing, Device and Reliability Workgroups and all MSIG related conferences and events. Before joining SEMI, he worked at X-Ray imaging backplane supplier and FOA member, dpiX, in various positions starting in 2003.  He was the process, equipment, and yield manager in their Gen 2.5 Palo Alto glass Fab until 2012 when dpiX moved its production to a new Gen 4.5 Fab in Colorado Springs.  He rejoined dpiX in 2014 and worked on the flexible substrate equipment selection team and later became their first business development manager in 2018 when dpiX announced its Foundry Business.

Earlier positions were held at Applied Materials where he helped develop a laser annealing system for semiconductor shallow junctions and silicides, and start-up company FlexICs, where he was a co-founder and VP of Engineering.  FlexICs developed low temperature thin film transistor (TFT) fabrication technology relevant to flexible OLED displays now used in cellphones.  Prior to founding FlexICs, he worked as a staff scientist and program leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where his group initially developed the low temperature polysilicon-on-plastic TFT technology.

Dr. Carey received a double major BS from UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE).  He received his MS in EECS from UC Berkeley and Ph.D. in MSE from Stanford University.

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Current electromechanical design practice is predicated on the exercise of expert-level judgement through an interactive and iterative design and fabrication process that requires skilled humans at every step. This approach doesn't scale because it is labor intensive, and therefore biases robots toward longer-lasting, more general-purpose (and expensive) designs in order to justify the development and fabrication costs. Though appropriate in some cases, not all applications are well-served by this process. Many robot applications might be better-served by rapidly-built special-purpose or single-use machines, but automated design and fabrication tools will be critical to control costs, accelerate development, and be responsive to application needs.

The overall goal is to make electromechanical systems (robots) so easy to design and fabricate that we could enable people who are application experts (but not necessarily robot design or fabrication experts) to rapidly create robots for their specific needs. Although Roboticists claim that robots are for dull, dirty, and dangerous use-cases, the community predominantly uses them for the first case, because robots are currently expensive and slow to build, which makes them precious. If we change this situation by making robots practically disposable/expendable, we could potentially re-imagine many robot use-cases.

With this future in mind, new design tools to convert high-level requirements specified by non-experts into concrete electromechanical design plans, new materials that leverage multi-material additive manufacturing, and new multi-material 3D printing methods to automatically convert these designs into functional robots are being developed. During this course we will describe these various areas of current study as well as possible applications for 3D printed robotics.

About the Instructors

Dr. Robert MacCurdy is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder where he leads the Matter Assembly Computation Lab (MACLab). He is developing new algorithms, materials, and fabrication tools to automatically design and manufacture electromechanical systems, with a focus on robotics. Rob did his PhD work with Hod Lipson at Cornell University and his postdoctoral work at MIT with Daniela Rus. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Ithaca College, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and an M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.

Dr Gregory Whiting is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU).  At CU he leads the Boulder Experimental Electronics and Manufacturing (BEEM) Laboratory, which is focused on studying and developing materials, processes and devices for novel and additively manufactured electronic systems used in applications including distributed sensing (particularly for environmental monitoring) and robotics. Prior to joining CU in 2017, Greg was a member of the Rapid Evaluation Team at Google[X] and managed the Novel Electronics Area at the Palo Alto Research Center. He received a PhD from Cambridge University in 2007 and a BS from UC Berkeley in 2002.

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Fabricating robots using additive design and manufacturing methods has the potential to transform when, where and how the advantages of robots are brought to bear.  

Take this FlexTech Master Class to explore the potential applications and how to use new design tools, 3D printing methods and multi-material additive manufacturing to convert ideas into solid electromechanical robotic systems.

Led by Dr. Robert MacCurdy and Prof. Greg Whiting of the University of Colorado, Boulder, this course will provide you new ways to approach manufacturing, additive design and the role of robots.

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Printed, flexible and hybrid electronics (PFHE) enable emerging applications in IoT, medical sensing, smart packaging and labels, structural monitoring, human wellness and performance, monitors, extreme environment, and display applications. At the same time, PFHE approaches can also provide faster product development, prototyping, and manufacturing cycles for single, custom items to large areas, low-cost mass manufacturing scales in additive, more sustainable pathways for electronics as they become even more ubiquitous in our world.

This class covers the basics of PFHE processing technologies, from dispensing and inkjet printing to roll to roll printing and coating, along with the materials and supplementary thermal processes that enable these processes.

Next-generation technologies are also explored for high-resolution PFHE and additive manufacturing that could provide new form factors and manufacturing approaches and exceed the performance of conventionally-processed electronics.  These technologies also have impact on unmet heterogeneous integration possibilities in fields ranging from electronics to optics and quantum materials.

Example PFHE and printed energy materials topics:

  • Dispensing and 3D printing of electronic and energy materials
  • Aerosol printing
  • High resolution inkjet printing and coating
  • Screen Printing
  • Flexographic Printing
  • Gravure printing
  • Slot die coating
  • Convective, IR and photonic thermal processing
  • Microcontact printing and embossing
  • Submicron electrohydrodynamic printing

About the Instructor

Devin MacKenzie

J. Devin MacKenzie is the Washington Research Foundation Professor of Clean Energy and an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at UW.  Dr. MacKenzie is also the director of the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, an open access laboratory with world-class printed electronics, flexible electronics and energy device fabrication and testing capabilities. 

Dr. MacKenzie has 20 years of experience co-founding or leading startups in novel fabrication including as a co-founder and CEO of Imprint Energy commercializing printed  flexible batteries, as CTO of Add-Vision, a printed flexible OLED display company that was acquired in 2011, and as a VP at Kovio, an MIT spin out, leading printed Si RF device integration.  Devin also co-founded the world’s first printed electronics company, Plastic Logic Ltd. in the United Kingdom.  Previously Dr. MacKenzie was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Prior to entering the start-up world, Devin was a postdoc in Physics at the University of Cambridge and earned PhD, MS, and BS degrees from the University of Florida and MIT. Dr. MacKenzie has over 220 patents and publications and has been cited over 10,000 times.

This is the 11th Flexible Electronics Master Class. This and previous classes are available On Demand.  See the full list.

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The field of printed, flexible and hybrid electronics (PFHE) and energy devices provides pathways to new products and form factors for ultralight, thin, flexible and large-area electronics, sensors, processing, I/O, photonics, and power.  Indeed, flexible electronics is quietly transforming packages and enabling radical changes in electronics from the inside out.

In this Flexible Electronics Experts Class (recorded on June 22, 2022) you will learn the basics and the next generation improvements in processing technologies, from dispensing and inkjet printing to roll-to-roll printing and coating.  The instructor also addressed the latest materials and updates on supplementary thermal processing needs.

This course is appropriate for newcomers to the field, as well as those looking to rapidly gain information on the latest materials and equipment advancements.

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