Schneider Electric Names Campbell to Microelectronics Engineering Services Team.

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RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2003

Schneider Electric today announced that Dr. Jarrett Campbell has joined its Microelectronics Engineering Services team as market application development manager.

"Dr. Campbell's extensive background

in microelectronics manufacturing makes him ideally suited to helping customers take advantage of Schneider Electric's advanced processed control solutions, which are at the forefront of the microelectronics industry," said Tom Insprucker, director of Schneider Electric's Industrial Applications Division.

In addition to holding 17 U.S. patents associated with multiple areas of semiconductor manufacturing. Dr. Campbell has collaborated on and published extensively on advanced process control solutions and techniques. His work has appeared in the pages of Solid State Technology and Semiconductor International, two of the industry's leading trade publications, as well as at various industry symposiums, including the American Control Conference, SPIE Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing, SEMATECH AEC/APC Symposium and the AEC/APC Europe Symposium.

Topics have included run-to-run control applied to photolithography, etch, chemical mechanical planarization, and deposition processes. In addition, Dr. Campbell's work has focused on the challenges of implementing advanced process control solutions in high-volume and high-product mix manufacturing environments.

Dr. Campbell earned a Ph.D. and M.S.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work experience includes positions as a member of the technical staff at Advanced Micro Devices, advanced process control engineering manager at KLA-Tencor, and most recently, product marketing manager at Yield Dynamics.

Schneider Electric is a premier provider of APC solutions at major fab end-users, designing and installing APC solutions and consulting extensively on factory floor process issues in the wafer fabrication process.

For more information about Schneider Electric advanced process control solutions for the microelectronics industry, call 1-888-SQUARED or visit www.SquareD.com/micro.

Headquartered in Palatine, Ill., the North American Operating Division of Schneider Electric had sales of $2.7 billion in 2002. The North American Operating Division is one of three geographic divisions of Schneider Electric, headquartered in Paris, France, and markets the Square D, Telemecanique and Merlin Gerin brand products to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In the United States, Schneider Electric is best known by its flagship Square D brand, with Telemecanique becoming increasingly known in the industrial control and automation markets and supported by many Square D distributors. For 100 years, Square D has been a market-leading brand of electrical distribution and industrial control products, systems and services. Schneider Electric is a global electrical industry leader with 2002 sales of approximately $9.5 billion. Visit Schneider Electric at www.SquareD.com, www.schneider-electric.com, www.schneiderautomation.com or www.transparentfactory.com.

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