Achtung Baby!
03/01/2007
When the Irish rock band, U2, named their 7th album Achtung Baby they released a new, exciting sound of far off places, using electronica, dance influences, and guitar effects. So, of course for our first Roadshow in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein, we named the tour similarly.
U2’s Achtung Baby, recorded in Berlin, was responsible for a renewed sense of optimism in the band’s sound through infusing more European rock into the band’s traditional music. European innovation in advanced packaging equipment also meets the proliferation of packaging styles in the packaging market, giving new life and specific precision needed for automating the back-end of the assembly process.
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![]() Dietrich Tonnies, Ph.D., explains how photoresist spray coating is done in MEMS production. |
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![]() Engineers work on specific customer-related problems using the company’s Gamma systems for flexible, clean, and coating processes in a cluster arrangement. |
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![]() A SUSS engineer looks at extremely small features in checking the mask alignment process. |
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![]() Engineers squat low to see how the flexible robotic handler is working out. |
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![]() Clemens Mitte, SUSS engineer, reads and interacts with precision as he makes adjustments. |
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![]() Gerisch; centrotherm’s Heike Bundschuh, marketing; Uwe Keim, product manager; Uwe Schiele, sales; and Gail Flower gather at the company’s entrance. |
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![]() The new building at centrotherm follows feng shui designs with construction turning to the lines of the nearby river, trees, and landscaped balls in pleasing arrangements. |
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![]() One of their oldest installed furnaces (1966) is at hand, labeled with the owner/president’s name: H.C. Hartung. |
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![]() The VLO 300 is used for vacuum soldering. |
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![]() Schiele, Flower, and Bundschuh gather in the lunchroom. |
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![]() On to Austria, where Flower and Gerisch met with Ulrich Mengele, Mengele PMC GmbH; and Datacon’s Hannes Kostner, manager advanced technology. |
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![]() Kostner had lots of equipment to talk about and show us in the demo center. |
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![]() Kostner explains the latest piece of equipment in the lab, the EVG540C2W, to Flower. |
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![]() One of the areas of activity for Datacon is the production of the HF Tag based on copper-plated antenna for RFID. |
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![]() Datacon has a fully equipped workout club for its health-conscious employees. |
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![]() Flower gets a bear hug in a local Tyrolean restaurant. |
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![]() We tried to take in the misty, foggy winter views of large country homes, this one in Switzerland. |
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![]() Daniel Buergi demos the SwissLINE die-attach system for us. |
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![]() Oliver Harnisch, technical support manager poses with Alphasem’s Easyline. |
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![]() Here, high-tech companies are dispersed between farms where barns connect to main buildings. |
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![]() Rustic chalet homes in the mountains near Triesen, Liechtenstein, often have high-tech solar units on their rooftops. |
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![]() Technicians work with Shuttleline Etch, a flexible load-locker system for R&D and small substrate production. |
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![]() Jarby with Hans Auer, product marketing manager, PVD wafer. |
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![]() Outside Oerlikon’s headquarters stands a large bike rack to encourage a healthy lifestyle. |
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![]() Waltl; Lindner; Stefan Pargfrieder, business development manager; and Wimplinger meet for lunch in the guest dining room with the Roadshow crew. |
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![]() The factory floor displays a wide variety of EVG equipment. |
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![]() Lindner reviews which equipment does what. |
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![]() The countryside and mountains of Austria eventually give way to our final destination in Munich. |
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