Background Customer manufactures high speed pick-and-place assembly systems utilized on semiconductor wafer handling robots. At times the systems run continu- ously within a cleanroom 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and uninterrupted operation is a must. Challenge Current Class 100 clean room round cables need to be replaced every 3 months, and do not meet the upgraded systems Class 10 Clean Room environment requirements. They often also cause friction to the pneumatic tubes also utilized within the cable track. Customer wanted to reduce the number of cables in use, increase production uptime, and find a flexible cable that better utilizes their production space. Solution Cicoil offered a highly flexible Class 1 clean room rated cable solution that was able to replace 5 round cabl

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