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search projects. But, because many are highly combustible or poisonous, they can also be fatal when mishan- dled. This complicates the process of designing systems that handle these gases. While safety remains the top priority, semiconductor manufactur- ers, for example, must ensure high- speed throughput, while creating ma- terial line widths of half a micron or less. In this high-stakes production en- vironment, a controller fault or failure could delay or ruin hundreds of thou- sands of dollars’ worth of product. “When semiconductor factories
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complete a run of wafers, they might be processing one million dollars’ worth of product at any one time,” says David Stetz, chief engineer of research and development controls technology, Applied Energy Systems (AES). “If they have a downtime of just a few hours, it could severely damage the profitability of their pro- duction process.”
High-Purity Gas Delivery Providing safe, reliable systems
has been the goal of AES since it began manufacturing high-purity
Upgrading the GSM-V with a panel PC and pluggable EtherCAT I/O was the result of collaboration between Tim Beckel, regional sales engineer, Beckhoff (left), and David Stetz, chief engineer of R&D control technology, AES (right).
ltra-high purity industrial gases are essential for electron- ics manufacturing and re-
gas systems in the mid-1980s. This was a shift for the Pennsylvania- based company, which had been a re- seller of welding equipment since its founding in 1968. However, the company now op-
erates in five major divisions. The SEMI-GAS® division provides ultra- high-purity gas delivery and distri- bution solutions. VERSA-GAS™ of- fers a diverse range of high-purity gas delivery and distribution sys-
tems. APPLIED SERVICES is a trusted field resource providing in- stallation and commissioning servic- es. APEX Precision is the company’s premier welding division. Finally, ARM the company’s most recent cor- porates acquisition, provides gas pu- rifiers. The market for high-purity gas
systems includes general manufac- turing industries, research labs, solar, pharmaceuticals and biotech products, while the market for ultra- high-purity gas systems includes manufacturers of aerospace compo- nents, semiconductors and other electronics. With such a high-tech clientele,
AES must continue to improve its of- ferings to remain competitive. In 2012, the company built a new facili- ty next to its headquarters, just west of Philadelphia. The new building of- fers space to test and implement cut- ting-edge technologies to launch new products and update existing equip- ment, according to Jim Murphy, gen- eral manager of AES. “We are intently focused on re-
search and development and expand- ing our manufacturing operations to support the Industry 4.0 solutions and the Internet of Things (IoT) tech-
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