Automated Wafer Handling Robot

The wafer manufacturing process is complex and long. To guarantee the quality of your products and to optimize productivity, it is advisable to invest in innovative equipment. The best way of accomplishing this is to use an automated pod and wafer handling robot which facilitates all wafer handling processes. A single robot can carry out the picking, loading and unloading with precision. Discover more in our article below on automated wafer handling robots.

What is an automatic robot for handling wafers?

An Automatic Wafer Handling Robot is an industrial robotic solution for picking, loading and unloading wafers. It is specifically designed for those semiconductor manufacturing industries seeking to optimize the reliability and efficiency of their manufacturing process.

There are many advantages in integrating this collaborative robot within your production line. It benefits from advanced technology allowing it to perform tasks with great precision while defective and reject rates are reduced. Since wafers and semiconductors are sensitive products, any mishandling causes their deterioration and engenders a substantial loss for the company. The robot therefore plays an important role in ensuring the quality of production as well as delivering increased productivity.

In general, manual labor is irregular, slow and can sometimes be dangerous for the operators. Automating your wafer handling will consequently increase the availability times of your teams who can focus on tasks with higher added value.

Why get an automated wafer handling robot?

Integrating an automatic wafer robot into your production line has the following advantages:

• Optimized productivity: the robot’s production rate is significantly higher than that of the operators. In addition, it can operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, apart from downtime for maintenance.
• Quality improvement.
• Improving the working conditions of your operators.
• Reduction of production costs.
• A gain in competitiveness.

The ATG Technologies SideLoader

The SideLoader by ATG Technologies is a robotic solution adapted to the handling of wafers. It is an automatic handling system that the company has developed to ensure the automatic loading and unloading of equipment.

This automatic robot increases the rate of loading and unloading machines. It also extends the operating range of automated transport vehicles (AMHS), especially when they cannot access the tools' loadports.

If you have a project to modernize your production lines, the SideLoader is an ideal solution. It comes fully integrated with FAB communication standards (SCS/GEM/E84).

The ATG Technologies cobot also has many other advantages:

• Makes handling more reliable;
• Improves workstation ergonomics and reduces MSD risks;
• Improves process traceability;
• Increases the rate of loading and unloading machines;
• Reduces particulate intake.

ATG technologies provides you with high-performance, flexible and innovative machines, whatever your sector of activity.