Thermco Announces Major Upgrade for Vertical Furnace Systems
Thermco Systems, a Division of Tetreon Technologies, has announced it will be launching a new technology platform for semiconductor vertical furnaces, the VTR 7000XE. This product enables production customers using older SVG Thermco 6000/7000 vertical furnaces to replace all of the now obsolete process, communications and automation control systems. The VTR 7000 series was a highly successful product range and is still used around the world in production semiconductor fabs. The company will officially launch the new platform at Semicon West 2015 in San Francisco, California.
Gerry Thurgood, CEO of Thermco Systems commented "We have listened to our production customers who want to extend the life of their existing VTRs but need modern and robust PC based control systems and user interfaces for older vertical furnace systems. The introduction of the VTR 7000XE platform not only upgrades the process and automation controls but also provides new features such as SPC equipment monitoring".
