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Case Studies
Case Studies (6)Soft-I/O technology is being used in a wide range of applications including semiconductor fabrication tools, renewable energy production facilities, nuclear plant inspection equipment, accelerated life cycle testing, solar heating control, automated warehousing and more. The nature of Soft-I/O is that our customers take Soft-I/O and do wonderful things with it. Our knowledge of these sytems is limited. At the same time, we have a reasponsibility to our customers to keep the benefits of Soft-I/O to themselves! Nonetheless, we can share some selected application stories with you. 
Manual History Early semiconductor fabrication facilities (fabs) had a remarkable amount of manual labor to move wafers around from machine to machine and run them through the hundreds of processes to make a finished wafer.The model largely changed with the move to 300mm wafers. This is the story of one critical piece of new equipment and how Soft-I/O saved money and improved reliability while delivering better performance. The machine is a Pod Door Opener or a FOUP opener. Here's the story.
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A light tower is a deceptively simple device. It has maybe four lights in a stack that sit above a tool on the production floor. In semiconductor fabs where wafers are processed into chips, light towers can help operators and technicians identify tools that need attention. So what's so difficult about this problem?
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I could argue that solar hot water is the ugly stepchild of the solar industry. All the glamour goes to photovoltaic, the sexy cousin. We are not taking anything away from the allure of electricity from the sun and watching ones electric meter run backwards, but the smart money is on solar hot water. Why? Heating water via the sun is so effective compared to heating water with electricity. But why did I just read that Ohio recently celebrated its 50th installed solar hot water system? Fifty in one state? Solar hot water is a nightmare of permutations. Complexity is the grist of the Soft-I/O mill. Please read about this recent Soft-I/O success story.
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I was showing Soft-I/O to an electrical engineer friend who works in a development laboratory designing things like battery chargers. After a little while hearing about Soft-I/O, he said, “I could use a couple of dozen of those modules in my lab.” Bob’s comment caught me a little off guard because I had normally thought of people using Soft-I/O in machines or buildings, not sitting on a shelf in an engineering lab. What our friend was talking about was using Soft-I/O as a “tool” just like an oscilloscope. Here’s the story about one of the first things Bob did with Soft-I/O in his laboratory.
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Biomass can come from many sources. One source is from reactors that grow algae which is then harvested. These reactors are often located outdoors, so the control systems need to survive large temperature swings and consume minimal power during operation
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Project Overview Soft-I/O features to address problems
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