Mechanical Technology Vacuum Technology is the combination of skill and knowledge necessary to maintain and service high-cost and critical vacuum chambers essential in a manufacturing process. Vacuum chambers are the work benches for making thousands of products. They are used to make circuit chips in the semiconductor industry and they are also used to apply protective coatings on machine tools to prolong life and usefulness.
Vacuum chambers cost millions of dollars.
Just one hour of downtime for a vacuum chamber can mean a loss of countless dollars for a company. Vacuum technicians perform preventive maintenance. They may replace a faulty ion gauge, rebuild a cryo-pump, bead blast shielding, or perform leak detection. Typical tools include wrenches, multi-meters, RGA's, computers, and leak detectors.