Genmark Automation Announced Availability of EZTeach, the New Intelligent Teach Pendant Terminal based on Pocket PC Lightweight System Decreases Teaching Time for Robots With Wizards

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - July 10, 2002: Genmark Automation, Inc., a leader in tool and factory automation solutions for the global semiconductor industry, introduces its EZTeach - a new Intelligent Teach Pendant Terminal based on Pocket PC, such as HP Jornada or Compaq iPAC. The EZTeach streamlines robotic teaching by providing the full functionality, capabilities and intelligence of a traditional host-computer in the footprint of a handheld device. The company will demonstrate the new technology at SEMICON West 2002, July 22 to 24th, at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, North Hall Booth # 5244.

The EZTeach provides intelligent dedicated teaching wizards for a variety of equipment including load ports, prealigners, open cassettes, process chambers and more. By offering pre-defined training steps, the wizards reduce teaching time, increase consistency in the teaching process, and minimize the dependency of process on the qualifications of the operator. The EZTeach uses dedicated keys and a graphical user interface that allows operators to train significantly quicker as doing it as a manual process. The system is ANSI compliant, providing Emergency Off button and optional dead man switch.

The EZTeach incorporates Genmark’s Gencobot Tool Box, a set of powerful utilities which simplify the programming, diagnostics, maintenance and calibration of the Genmark robots. The Windows CE application, which offers an intuitive user interface that requires minimal training to use, includes a terminal emulator, user macro editor, robot parameters editor, station editor and trajectory editor.

The jogging mode of operation lets the operator jog the robot in any direction in different spaces (Cartesian, joint, or motor), using appropriate graphical user interface and dedicated buttons of the Pocket PC. The EZTeach’s file transfer capabilities allow the operator to transfer files from the robot controller to the host computer, as well as to upload and download firmware configurations, station information and other data.

The diagnostic tools display the current status of the servo axes and digital I/Os in real-time to allow the operator to monitor the servo controller operation and perform diagnosis without having to deal with a command line interface. The diagnostic functionality also includes verification of the consistency of the controller firmware by comparing a set of firmware parameters with the respective predefined values. The EZTeach is also capable of automatically collecting extensive diagnostic information in case of a failure, which is to be used for remote diagnostic purposes.

About Genmark
Genmark Automation, Inc. is a worldwide leading supplier of factory automation solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and data storage manufacturing industries. We provide our customers with “turn-key,” highly sophisticated hardware and software automation solutions for both atmospheric and vacuum environments, supporting numerous applications across the semiconductor, flat panel, and data storage fabrication industries. OEM and Fab customers leverage Genmark’s automation technologies to maximize equipment productivity in dynamic manufacturing environments.

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