Facilities connection bucket for pre-facilitation of wafer fabrication equipment

A facilities connection locator for use with a support apparatus for supporting manufacturing equipment, comprising:

• a fluid tight bucket having:
• a bottom surface;
• a plurality of side walls extending upwardly from the bottom surface;
• a mounting mechanism adapted to mount the fluid tight bucket to a support apparatus for supporting manufacturing equipment so that the fluid tight bucket has a fixed position relative to the support apparatus in an x-axis, a y-axis and a z-axis;
• at least one fluid connection port formed in the fluid tight bucket;
• a vacuum connection port;
• a fluid tight riser that surrounds the vacuum connection port, the fluid tight riser having a plurality of openings formed therein;
• a facilities connection line extending through the vacuum connection port and fixedly coupled to the fluid tight riser, comprising:
• a top surface;
• and
• a locating flange positioned a fixed distance below the top surface, and adapted to be fixed in place relative to the fluid tight riser;
• and
• a plurality of elements that extend through the plurality of openings, to contact the locating flange and thereby fix the facilities connection line in place relative to the fluid tight riser.