Brooks Automation

Brooks Automation provides automation, vacuum, and instrumentation solutions to the worldwide semiconductor manufacturing industry.

Brooks Automation, Inc. provides automation, and vacuum and instrumentation solutions primarily to the semiconductor manufacturing industry worldwide. It operates in three segments: Automation Systems, Critical Components, and Global Customer Operations. The Automation Systems segment provides automation products for vacuum and atmospheric equipment, as well as mini-environment products, calibration and alignment products, and high-precision airflow controls primarily for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The companyâ€s competitors in the vacuum cryogenic pumps market include SHI and Genesis. Its competitors in the vacuum measurement market include MKS Instruments and Inficon. It also identifies competition from Applied Materials, Novellus, KLA-Tencor, and TEL. Brooks Automation, Inc. was founded in 1978.