Intevac’s 200 Lean system is the world’s leading production deposition tool for perpendicular media recording (PMR). The 200 Lean fully utilizes Intevac’s Lean philosophy of equipment design to provide higher throughput from a smaller footprint, enabling more magnetic disks to be manufactured per square-foot of factory floor space while dramatically reducing cost of ownership.

The 200 Lean’s extendible architecture easily accommodates multiple disk sizes and the growing number of thin-film process steps required by advanced HDD technologies such as PMR, heat-activated media and eventually nano-patterned media. Film deposition capability includes hard magnetic layers, non-magnetic layers, soft under-layers and carbon layers.

The 200 Lean system can be configured with as few as four process stations or as many as 24. Its footprint is just a third that of the nearest competitor’s system, and when combined with over 800 dph throughput enables a remarkable space utilization of 20 dph/ ft2 and the lowest total cost of ownership. The compact, flexible design increases process utilization from about 65% to 80% by reducing the time to transport disks between process stations to just one second.