General Info

ADE Corporation, headquartered in Westwood, Mass., is among the worldwide leaders in automated metrology and inspection systems for the wafer manufacturing and computer disk drive industries. Founded in 1967 by Robert C. Abbe, the company became public in October 1995. ADE employs more than 400 employees and has sales and service offices worldwide. ADE s WaferCheck, MicroScan, UltraScan and UltraGage systems provide automated high-speed measurement and sorting of silicon wafers. ADE Software designs offline analysis tools which allow process engineers to focus on solutions instead of data collection and analysis, turning all of the data into useful and easily accessible information. ADE s UltraGage equipment is used both in the wafer and device-manufacturing markets, which is used for development and analysis for photolithography, thin film stress and backgrind processes. ADE Technologies and ADE Phase Shift, wholly owned subsidiaries of ADE Corporation, now offer disk media manufacturers automated production tools.