Every day, our colleagues in R&D, Manufacturing, Customer Support, Sourcing and Supply Chain, and support functions take on the exciting challenge of building and maintaining the most advanced lithography systems in the world.
Research & Development
Without R&D, ASML wouldn’t exist. Our founders’ goal when they started the company in 1984 was to build a fast and accurate chip-making machine that could compete in the growing semiconductor industry – something that could never be achieved without a relentless focus on R&D, guided by the voice of our customers. In our Research department, ideas are explored and then passed on to Development & Engineering for designing and integration into our products and services. ASML continues to invest heavily in R&D.
Manufacturing
It’s one thing to design a product – it’s another to build and mass produce it. Our Manufacturing department assembles, builds and delivers all our systems from the prototype stage onwards. It also supports the installation of completed systems at customer sites. Each new generation of systems brings new manufacturing challenges, so sometimes Manufacturing’s job of putting it all together includes taking the machine apart and rethinking it.
