Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Brooks Automation Q3 Financial Results Conference Call. During the presentation, all participants’ lines will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we’ll conduct a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Thursday, August 8, 2013. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Mr. Martin Headley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Brooks Automation. Please go ahead sir.

Thank you very much, Lindsay and good afternoon, everybody. I’d like to welcome you all to the third quarter financial results conference call for Brooks’ fiscal year 2013. In addition to covering the results of the quarter that ended on June 30, we’ll be providing an outlook into the fourth quarter of our fiscal 2013 which will end on September 30. Our press release was issued after the close of markets today and is available at the Investor Relations page of our website, www.brooks.com as are the illustrative PowerPoint slides we use during our prepared comments during today’s call. I’d like to remind everybody that during the course of the call, we’ll be making a number of forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Litigation Securities Act of 1995. There are many factors that may cause actual financial results or other events to differ from those identified in such forward-looking statements. I’d refer you to the section of our earnings release titled Safe Harbor statement, the Safe Harbor slide in the aforementioned PowerPoint presentation on our website, on the company’s various filings with the SEC. We make no obligation to update these statements should future financial data or events occur that differ from forward-looking statements presented today. I’d also like to note we’ll also make reference to a number of non-GAAP financial measures, which are used in addition to and in conjunction with results provided in accordance with GAAP. Management believes these non-GAAP measures provide an additional way viewing aspects of our operation and performance when considered with the GAAP financial results and the reconciliation of debt measures provide a more complete understanding of the Brooks business. Non-GAAP measures should not be relied upon to the exclusion of GAAP measures. Brooks’ Chief Executive Officer Steve Schwartz will follow my…

Thank you, Martin. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining our call. We are pleased to have the opportunity to report the results of the third quarter of our fiscal year. We had a very good Q3 as we were able to demonstrate significant progress on the key initiatives that have been our focus for more than a year. We continue to capture meaningful design-in wins at G OEMs for the semi and adjacent markets. We secured orders on large share of the life sciences systems business that we projected and operationally we delivered improved gross margins, another quarter of inventory reduction and strong cash flow. I will give some of the highlights here and provide some commentary as to what to expect as we move forward. When we made our original plans for the year, we’d anticipated something of an upturn in the semi portion of our business. Indications were that order activity would begin to accelerate in the back half of the year but as you’ve heard from other companies serving this segment, any ramp looks to be delayed. However even if flat revenue quarter we delivered 150 basis points of gross margin improvement, we reduced inventory by another $4 million and had strong cash flow of approximately $13 million. June was a very solid operating quarter for Brooks and we project another in September. But if any semiconductor business ramps, it feels likely to be postponed until after the September quarter. In June quarter we continued to aggressively pursue design win activity in our semiconductor and adjacent business and we registered another 17 design-in wins from OEMs who serve this market. 9 wins were for semi front end and 8 were for adjacent applications that included advanced packaging, MEMS and LED. This mix is very consistent…

Thank you very much Steve. Now I direct you to slide number four, which reflects the 2.3 million sequential improvement in gross profits but we secured 1.5 million sequential revenue growth. As Steve mentioned, this represents gross margin expansion of 150 basis points. Our R&D spend was approximately flat and the SG&A expense levels benefited from the previously noted stock compensation expense reversals. An alternate view of the sequential change is shown on the waterfall chart slide five, the gross margin dropped through on the $1.2 million revenue growth in our Brooks product solutions segment was limited to $100,000. As a result of the $1 million sequential decline in license revenues, that’s a 100% margin. Thus excluding this decline of license revenues, the product sales generated $1.1 million of incremental gross profit on $2.2 million of revenue growth. The lifescience systems business posted $1.1 million of additional gross profits on slightly lower revenues. This performance reflects robust contributions from software sales and device sales both of which attract higher margins than the segment’s average. The global services segment also generated outside margin performance in the quarter with $1.1 million of incremental gross margins on $600,000 of revenue growth. This reflects both benefits from integrating the crossing automation service business as well as sales of some previously reserved inventory. The stock compensation accrual reversal was the most significant sequential impact to our operating expenses. The slide number six shows the GAAP earnings for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 were $1.5 million or $0.02 per diluted share which includes special charges of $600,000 pretax or $400,000 after tax. Adjusted net profit, excluding these restructuring and merger cost charges, was $2 million or $0.03 per share. Our effective tax rate in the quarter was 74% and it’s expected to be below 3%…

(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from the line of Patrick Ho [Stifel Nicolaus]. Patrick Ho – Stifel Nicolaus: Steve, maybe if you could provide a little bit of color, I understand that, that business is always going to have some lumpiness and is very depending on the timing of funding, respective at each institution, what type of traction are you seeing in terms of the automated storage systems? Are you seeing an extreme cold BioStores and some of the smaller and midrange or are you seeing it across-the-board, is this centered in one of those areas or is it across the board?

Patrick, the bulk of the wins that we had were for pretty sizable stores, so that’s the majority of the business right now for us, as we work on a smaller offering we will be a little bit more competitive. But there is an opportunity for some smaller stores, and we won – all but one of the wins we are aware of from a large store and there is more opportunity for us as we continue to develop a smaller store and we do want to be more competitive there. Patrick Ho – Stifel Nicolaus: Do you think over like say the next six or 12 months that’s going to be the focus in terms of the larger storage systems is where we are going to see at least the near term growth?

So from a business standpoint we will continue to grow the medium and large sized stores and from an investment standpoint we continue to invest in the smaller cold stores. Patrick Ho – Stifel Nicolaus: Going to the semi side of things, I think it’s rational, it makes sense in terms of the push-out that we are seeing in the business, can you just remind us what type of lead times you have with your OEM customers from the standpoint of – if they see their pick up in shipments in the December quarter for some of their customers, how quick can you turnaround I guess your products for them in terms of the shipments that they may have scheduled for the December quarter?

Patrick, for most of the products that we have were in the four to eight weeks lead time for a bulk of what we ship to our customers. So a lot of the business we have is turns and a lot of the expectation is that we will turn business for our customers. Patrick Ho – Stifel Nicolaus: Final question just in terms of the balance sheet, Martin, you talked about the increase in accounts receivables given the lateness of becoming in the quarter, was it primarily focused the one side of business semi or life sciences, or was it a mix of both?

It was a mix of both but it was also particularly pronounced in the life science systems because within accounts receivable there are also some billings made just before the end of the quarter that were associated with initial payments on large store systems and that would offset the increase in deferred revenues, but you'll also see on the balance sheet.

Our next question comes from the line of Edwin Mok with Needham. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: I guess follow up question on the semi, I think some of your customer actually are talking about a very strong shipment on the fourth quarter, or the calendar fourth quarter, shouldn’t you start to see some of that business in the back half of this quarter as they start to build – strongly in the fourth quarter, even with the [systems] that you have?

Edwin, exactly likely when they get orders, we will get orders because the lead times now are considerably shorter. So indeed if their shipments are expected in December we would anticipate that toward the end of this quarter we should start to see orders. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: You don’t have total ends, that’s why you don’t want to guide to that – is that the way to think about?

Yeah we are not sure who has orders in hand right now. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: I wanted to talk a little bit about your market share, as well as some of your major customers, have you seen some share shift among major customers that has impact on your business for example, maybe your Korean OEM customer, is that not – one or two big customers is loss share, that may have impact on your business?

Edwin, it would be tough for us to comment on the market share that our customers have. But is there is variability with the customers particularly where we’re strong that we would see it but we certainly wouldn't be in a position to comment on their particular market share. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: Do you – have you seen any of your customers – your major customer want to in-source some robotic or solutions or robotic design themselves, is it yours and which have an impact on your robotic business?

Edwin, in fact, we are seeing the reverse at this moment in that – on new business we are seeing more opportunities where people are considering outsourcing where they hope maybe more traditionally in-sourced. So we don't see that of a move have any momentum and certainly not a current impact on our revenues. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: Moving on to the lifesciences, I guess two questions related to this company you guys bought Matrical, first one just mechanics, does your $11 million guidance include revenue information?

Yes it does. It includes a short quarter for Matrical, so relatively modest amount of revenues from that business. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: Just make sure how I noticed that, I guess two question on – one is this company obviously is losing money right now, are they profitable, are they breakeven? So that’s the first question. And the second is I see that they have a lot of consumable type product, how do you think – do you think and integrate that and help drive, you have got some old business ---

I will comment the first part which is that the business is EBITDA positive at Matrical. So it will be having positive EBITDA, there obviously will be some downdraft from the intangibles amortizations that we will take a board. We are currently finalizing all those valuation studies. So it’s a little early to project how much of that downdraft is and how much is offset to the favorable EBITDA. And Edwin, on the consumables and the area that we call devices as well, lot of table top things related to the preparations of the samples and the consumables, those integrate really well into the product portfolio that we have already. So those are good capabilities from Matrical and they will fall right into the existing life-science systems business, both from a channel standpoint and probably customer. Edwin Mok – Needham & Company: Just question on gross margin, seems like your guidance July imply a little later – in the second quarter, is that just coming the reversal inventory recovery, you guys had this quarter in service business, was that main driver – anything other things we should watch out for?

If you look at they are both favourable and negative impacts on our gross margin rates in the June quarter. The VPS gross margins were actually held down as I mentioned by the level of license revenues that we had in the quarter, that was an abnormally light number and we wouldn’t expect that to recur. So we would expect to see together with the other initiatives that our operations group is going as well as full quarter impact of some of the removal of the lower margin business but you will see margin progression in VPS. I think the comments on the VGF side, the global services side is that you probably saw a higher gross margin than is sustainable, that was 34%, and as I think you will probably recollect our business model targets around about to 33% gross margin for that business. It will be something that’s slightly unusual there. It’s likely just the overall powerful quarter of a Matrical introduction is going to pull down slightly from the 44% levels in the life science systems but still a good deal, then we saw two quarters ago. But overall guidance would be margin expansion, put a lot of dynamics hopefully between the different pieces.

Our next question comes from the line of [John Peter] with Credit Suisse. Rohan Gallagher – Credit Suisse: This is Rohan in asking question on behalf of John. I would like to understand like in terms of your exit from the low margin businesses that you mentioned, how much impact did you think that had on your revenues in the June quarter?

It had the impact of about a couple of million dollars in the June quarter. But that was not a full quarter of all those initiatives, so it will be a little bit more sequentially that’s embedded within our guidance for September quarter. Rohan Gallagher – Credit Suisse: So if I look at it, like most of your peers – if I look across the component space, like on the saving side, they saw a significant increase in the June quarter of approximately 15% in revenue increase. So I am just kind of trying to understand like – trend in the June quarter, why is that like – if there is only $1 million of impact from exit, like why is that so much lower?

Well, I think you also might have seen that we sequentially had a higher growth rate in the March quarter from the December quarter than many other people saw. I think you’ve probably got to look at the two quarters combined and then I think you are looking something that looks fairly comparable there. Rohan Gallagher – Credit Suisse: And in terms of the licensing revenue that you mentioned, the $1 million, in response to one of the earlier questions you said that it’s not something that you are expecting in future. So I should just expect that to be a one-time event, is that correct?

There is an unusual impact because we – the recognition of license revenues is on a delayed basis because of the time it takes for those license shows to report the revenues that – report the associated revenues but they secured that were tied to our licenses. So what it means is that the license revenues we were recognizing in the June quarter related to the down periods of the December and March quarters and therefore they would depressed with the way that the industry has recovered since then, we’re pretty assured our license revenues will recover back to the levels we’d previously seen. Rohan Gallagher – Credit Suisse: And just one question on your industrial markets like can you about like what trends you are seeing in the display market in particular and what trends you saw in display in June quarter and what’s your kind of outlook – looking into the September quarter.

Our investment in revenues in general vacuum are not particularly well timed with what other people see in display. The timing is not a perfect sync, as I said we still benefit because we had – we are going through a product transition within our polycal line and we saw one of our customers place some significant larger orders there ahead of that. So I wouldn’t necessarily draw conclusions they are about what’s going on in display generally from that particular events that we saw. But we saw a very nice growth, we generally are seeing display the general vacuum area be relatively soft. So within our guidance for September quarter is not a particularly robust quarter in that area.

Our next question comes from the line of David Duley with Steelhead Securities. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: Just life science acquisition that you are laying in, could you talk about that’s going to impact the breakeven and where the breakeven of the business will be after we layer that in and I guess if you can remind us where it was before that would be great?

We are going through a lot of dynamics in the business at the moment as you would appreciate. The breakeven of the business is probably in the area of about $18 million a quarter currently. This acquisition may temporarily increase the breakeven but we think post integration it will not do so, it will actually contribute to the sales mass without increasing the breakeven point. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: Do you guys have the status as to when you think this business will start to contribute – to be profitable?

David, we hope by the time we exit 2014 that we will – as I mentioned we are making some investments in the next generation product development, really the reason why we got into the market, we think the investments are important but we do hope that -- and we believe that by the time we exit 2014 that we will be there. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: And that’s your fiscal year – what’s that in the calendar year?

By the time --- so calendar 2014, December 24. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: What is there at this point – can you just give a rough idea how much have you invested in total in lifesciences, as far as just acquisitions and buying businesses.

The investments in terms of the cash acquisitions is now $108 million. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: And if we think a long term what sort of return on investments do you think you should get from this business?

We think that this business has the potential to be both a faster growing business than the semiconductor business. Secondly a higher margin business than the semiconductor business and therefore drive down on what is really relatively asset like business, very low levels of working capital to a ROIC that is better than semiconductor average. There is a degree of inventing the market or in terms of automation solutions for the parts of the market whether or not automation solutions today. And that’s the challenge that we are currently going through in getting for all here, which is a lossmaking business today which should be a very valuable for our shareholders. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: You’re basically is guiding revenue growth but your gross margins are going to be up in semi or sequentially, that’s essentially production. Could we just kind of walk me through the gross margin guidance.

We have a number of initiatives in place both in terms of supply chain, eliminating lower margin business in terms of exiting from those. And from work that we are doing in terms of efficiency and productivity, all of those have a benefit we will have a benefit from the mix in the Brooks products solutions which will have a higher content of the higher margin license business. And so those should shall give us a very nice increase in margins and the Brooks products solutions business where we see only modest fall-off in the other pieces of our business. And that gives us a nice improvement. David Duley – Steelhead Securities: Final question from me, is when we see the semiconductor business takes off let’s say – take another up – in December and beyond, what should the drop rate of the growth in that business, given all these initiatives that you’ve just talked about?

Well, clearly we have shown throughout the cycles I noted over last 16 quarters there is about 40% drop through on average and with these initiatives I’d say it has the opportunity to be a few points ahead of that average. H

Our next question is a follow-up question from the Patrick Ho with Stifel Nicolaus. Patrick Ho – Stifel Nicolaus: Just one quick question in terms of going forward based on some of the design-ins and design wins you talked about, on this call as well as previous calls, I know it’s timing dependent on when OEMs go to their products as well as new devices that come out, would it be fair to characterize that these design-ins can be reflected in 2014 especially if we have an upmarket next year or these design wins for I guess a more of the outyears?

Patrick, just on a really rough terms, when we get a win, we’ve seen about half of them come back for repeat business in approximately eight quarters. So just to give you an idea, some come one quarters later, some come 3 years later but on average in the six to eight quarters after we get a design win, we start to see – if the product was indeed successful because there is a long cold time for the OEMs equipment and that’s about what we – that’s about what we've noted and we've seen about half of the wins so far over the cumulative nine quarter period, about half have come back for repeat orders.

We have no further questions at this time. I will now turn the conference back to Steve Schwartz for closing remarks.

Well thank you everyone for your interest in Brooks and we look forward to speaking with you when we report results from our fiscal 2013 fourth quarter. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude your conference call for today. We thank you once again for your participation and ask that you please disconnect your lines.