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Commercial Machine Control using Smalltalk: An experience report from the Semiconductor Industry. experience report Raabe, Thor: Unaxis Wafer Processing Monday 9:15 am to 10 am Abstract: Unaxis has been shipping production equipment for Semiconductor Manufacturing for almost a decade with control systems based on ControlWORKS, a commercial framework written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. This presentation will describe the equipment, its capabilities, the use of Smalltalk and the ControlWORKS framework, and some experiences gathered while developing and supporting these products.
Bio: Thor Raabe is a Lead Software Engineer at Unaxis Wafer Processing where he has been developing semiconductor manufacturing equipment automation software using Smalltalk for 9 years. He has a full range of expertise ranging from troubleshooting hardware and driver code to system architecture and framework development.