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Semiconductor Industry

Disk Media Handling Solutions

Over 60% of the world’s current media for personal storage is processed by equipment using Owens Design’s handling solutions. The factory automation and handling requirements for hard disk drive media are becoming increasingly complex due to the proliferation of unique form factors, introduction of new materials and increasing throughputs.

Owens Design has developed a family of hard disk handling solutions from high throughput linear tracks to ultra precise vacuum chuck loading to cassetteless wet process cleaning.

Owens Design Hard Disk Manufacturing Solutions

Disk and Cassette Handling Solutions

Owens Design has developed many innovative disk media and cassette handling solutions that have addressed the emerging requirements for the world’s leading media factories. Owens Design has solutions for all form factors (27mm - 95mm), ID, OD, and vacuum end effectors, aluminum and glass substrates, dry/wet/high temperature environments. Our equipment is well known within the industry for its excellent engineering, extremely high reliability, and ease of service.

Custom Cleaning Solutions

The ever-increasing importance of contamination control has led many disk manufacturers to seek custom solutions for cleaning and drying disk media. Owens Design has developed scrubbing, drying, and immersion modules as well as fully automated clean-lines to meet these needs.

“They offered a complete solution on both turnkey engineering and turnkey manufacturing.”

Program Manager
Owens Design Client