Affymetrix Deploys Brooks MEDIC MES(TM) Solution at New Manufacturing Facility
July 24 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Singapore facility uses manufacturing execution system to drive
paperless, GMP-compliance in complex manufacturing environment
CHELMSFORD, Mass., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brooks
Software, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKS), and
a leading provider of real-time applications for discrete
manufacturing environments, today announced that Affymetrix, Inc.
(NASDAQ:AFFX), a leader in microarray technology for molecular
biology research, has selected Brooks Software's MEDIC MES solution
for its new facility located in Singapore. The Brooks MEDIC MES
suite consists of a number of production proven components
specifically designed for regulated industries such as life
sciences to control all critical data across operational and
business systems. "Affymetrix supports a GMP-compliant environment
and is currently deploying Brooks manufacturing applications in our
facilities around the world," said Robert Ragusa, senior vice
president of Global Operations at Affymetrix. "The quick
installation and configuration of the MEDIC MES Solution in
Singapore helped us meet our aggressive production deadlines." "As
supply chains expand globally, manufacturers are faced with
increasing complexity in managing their enterprise operations,"
said Joseph Vinhais, vice president regulatory compliance for
Brooks Software. "Life sciences manufacturers face additional
challenges with the growing list of government mandated
regulations. To remain competitive, companies need control over
their plant operations to ensure that their processes meet
compliance. Brooks MEDIC suite of applications allows manufacturers
to drive GMP-compliance into their operations. We are pleased
Affymetrix has chosen Brooks to manage the operations in their new
production facility." Affymetrix' GeneChip(R) technology uses
semiconductor manufacturing techniques with advances in
combinatorial chemistry to build vast amounts of biological data on
a small glass chip. Brooks supplies a number of applications
designed to automate, track and trace all manufacturing-related
activities including work-in-process, quality and equipment
engineering. The Brooks MEDIC suite provides real-time
applications, services and solutions allowing medical device
manufacturers to link each "pillar" of their operational and
business systems into a House of Compliance(TM) for complete
regulatory process management across the enterprise. The MEDIC
suite allows device manufacturers to drive GMP-compliance into
their manufacturing operations by integrating specific
solution-based pillars as their business needs grow over time. The
Brooks MEDIC solution suite is based on a manufacturing compliance
framework that utilizes a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and
leverages composite applications. The resulting risk avoidance
framework provides the "intelligence" and analytics required to
make faster, more accurate decisions to derive greater strategic
value from a manufacturer's investment. About Affymetrix Affymetrix
scientists invented the world's first high-density microarray in
1989 and began selling the first commercial microarray in 1994.
Since then, Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology has become the
industry standard in molecular biology research. Affymetrix
technology is used by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic
and biotechnology companies as well as leading academic, government
and not-for-profit research institutes. More than 1,400 systems
have been installed around the world and nearly 4,000 peer-reviewed
papers have been published using the technology. Affymetrix'
patented photolithographic manufacturing process provides the most
information capacity available today on an array, enabling
researchers to use a whole-genome approach to analyzing the
relationship between genetics and health. Affymetrix is
headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with manufacturing facilities
in Sacramento, Calif., and Bedford, Mass. The company maintains
important sales and marketing operations in Europe and Asia and has
about 1,100 employees worldwide. For more information about
Affymetrix, please visit the company's website at
http://www.affymetrix.com/. About Brooks Software Brooks Software,
a division of Brooks Automation, provides real-time applications
that support enterprise-wide initiatives for greater efficiency and
productivity in collaborative, complex manufacturing. Brooks' Sense
Decide Respond(TM) manufacturing software solutions are the
foundation for enterprise initiatives in manufacturing execution,
closed loop automation, lean manufacturing and enterprise
performance management. Brooks Software delivers competitive
advantage to aerospace & defense, automotive, high tech, life
sciences and semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. For more
information about the Brooks Software MEDIC suite, visit
http://lifesciences.brookssoftware.com/. About Brooks Automation,
Inc. Brooks Automation delivers automation solutions to the global
semiconductor and related industries. The company provides
hardware, software, and professional services to help manage every
wafer, reticle, and data movement in the fab, improving throughput
and yield while reducing cost and time to market. Brooks' products
and capabilities are used in virtually every semiconductor fab in
the world. For information, visit the company's web site at
http://www.brooks.com/. "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The foregoing discussion
contains forward-looking statements related to future results and
product capabilities and speaks only of Brooks Automation's
expectations as of the date of this press release. The
forward-looking statements involve several known and unknown risks
and uncertainties including, without limitation, the continued
success of Brooks Automation, Inc. (the "Company") in the
marketplace, the highly competitive nature and rapid technological
change that characterize the life sciences and other industries in
which the Company competes, the performance of the Company's
products and services, the abilities of our customers to make
successful use of our products and services in the course of the
management of their businesses and other risks and uncertainties
described in the Company's reports and registration statements
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
forward-looking statements include statements concerning Brooks'
MEDIC software products and their capabilities, the ability of our
customers to make effective use of our products and services, the
Company's software marketing capabilities and the ability to
continue to expand its worldwide market share. As a result, there
can be no assurance that the Company's future results will not be
materially different from those projected. The Company expressly
disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any
updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in
the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or
circumstances on which any such statement is based. All trademarks
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Contact: Jeff Nestel-Patt Director of Marketing Brooks Software
(978) 262-4497 DATASOURCE: Brooks Automation, Inc. CONTACT: Jeff
Nestel-Patt, Director of Marketing of Brooks Automation, Inc.,
+1-978-262-4497, Web site: http://www.brooks.com/
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