Asyst Technologies establishes new global organizational structure
Asyst Technologies, Inc. has announced several organizational changes to unify the company under a single global structure. The new organizational structure more closely integrates the operating and management structures of Asyst and Asyst Shinko, Inc. (ASI), following the July 2006 transaction that increased Asyst's ownership in ASI from 51% to 95.1%.
The company named Hitoshi Kawano, Paula LuPriore, and Thomas Leitzke as senior vice presidents and corporate officers. In the new organization, Mr. Kawano and Ms. LuPriore will have joint responsibility for leadership of the Automation Solutions Group, which includes all of the company's product divisions. Mr. Leitzke will have responsibility for Global Operations, which includes all manufacturing and supply chain management.
Steve Schwartz, chair and CEO of Asyst, said, "The organizational structure we have announced is designed to support a vision and mission for Asyst's future as an integrated, global company. We see several powerful benefits as a result of unifying the business. These include the focusing of our resources on an integrated product roadmap that will help our products work better together, which we believe will provide a significant competitive advantage over other suppliers that lack our full line of automation products. We also will accelerate development of key new products that address new and emerging customer requirements for enhanced fab productivity."
