Case Study: Rudolph Technologies achieves 6-9 month time-to-market and up to 90% smaller control teams with Cincom VisualWorks (ControlWORKS)

Rudolph Technologies Helps Semiconductor Customers Reach Market Faster with Smalltalk-Based ControlWORKS

Rudolph Technologies, a leader in process-control metrology and defect-inspection equipment for semiconductor manufacturers, needed a feature-rich control-system framework that would lower development and support costs by enabling rapid prototyping, high reuse and maintainability, and strong configuration control for multiple product versions.

They built ControlWORKS on Cincom VisualWorks, delivering systems in four to eight months instead of two to three years and cutting time-to-market to six to nine months. The framework and VisualWorks’ object-oriented environment reduced control-team size by up to 90%, lowered maintenance costs through built-in standard processes, and has been deployed in more than 6,000 systems—enabling customers to customize tools, manage their own development, and collaborate remotely.

Rudolph Technologies

Becky Cooper

Deputy Director of Control Systems