<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Mr. Ocola.........I have been involved with Semi equipment maintenance/service contracts for almost 28 years helping Universities, Government Labs and Industry worldwide.....The third party alternative ( intermediaries) to support semiconductor equipment sounds like a very good idea to control budgets/expenditures but very utopian........( unless one has the crystal ball to determine how many times a piece of equipment will break and what kind of problems it will have, what are the limits of this insurance policy, one might have a chance) As Mr. Rathbun mentioned, it can get very messy with you in the middle with broken equipment waiting to be repaired...I have seen more bad than good in this situations. I do not know about your particular mentioned company but they all work on the law of
probabilities/percentages of equipment failure, win most lose a few......You do not want to be among the few that lost.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>My recommendation is to work directly with the equipment service providers, it will be a little more expensive, but a well spelled out service contract will keep your equipment going and you with peace of mind. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Regards</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Mario A. Portillo Sr.<br>High'born Technology USA Inc.<br>Semiconductor Equipment Services<br>8130 Glades Road, #229<br>Boca Raton, FL 33434<br>561 479-1975 office<br>561 504-0244 cell<br>hbtusainc@yahoo.com<br>www.hbtusainc.com<br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin:
5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Leonidas Ocola <ocola@anl.gov><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Fab Network <labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Leonidas E. Ocola <ocola@anl.gov>; Daniel Lopez <dlopez@anl.gov> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:39 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [labnetwork] service contracts ...<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br>Dear All,<br><br>We have been hearing about a company called Remi Group<br>that appears to offer a lower cost for service contracts.<br>They act as a intermediary between the customer and<br>the tool vendor. As such they bet that the tool will not<br>break down enough to make service calls more expensive<br>than standard service contracts.<br><br>Have you any experiences you can share with this company?<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Leonidas<br><br>-- Leonidas E Ocola, PhD<br>Center for Nanoscale Materials<br>Argonnne National Laboratory<br>Bldg 440, Rm A129<br>9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439<br>Ph: 630-252-6613<br>Fax: 630-252-5739<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>labnetwork mailing list<br><a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu" ymailto="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a><br><a href="https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork"
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