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	Real Time Fab Monitoring At A High Volume Semiconductor Back-End

Real Time Fab Monitoring At A High Volume Semiconductor Back-End

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Semiconductors
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The company, one of the world's largest providers of semiconductor manufacturing assembly and test services, was facing challenges in tracking, monitoring, and optimizing the utilization of its several thousand processing equipment in its high-volume manufacturing site in China. The main requirements were to capture equipment status and historical information automatically for real-time knowledge and performance analysis over time, and to visualize the status of all the equipment in real-time in a graphical manner representing the actual physical fab layout. The large scale of the operation necessitated a solution that was scalable, flexible, and had state-of-the-art visualization and reporting capabilities. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a company founded in the 1980s and is one of the world's largest providers of semiconductor manufacturing assembly and test services. The company operates a high-volume manufacturing site in China that consists of several buildings with multiple production floors per building and with several thousand processing equipment in total. The company's operations are large-scale, requiring a solution that can handle the volume and complexity of its operations. The company also has a specific equipment state model that consists of six main states with approximately one hundred sub-states. Read More
Solution	To address the challenges, the company selected a Next Generation Manufacturing Execution System which provided Equipment Tracking and Real Time Graphical Fab Monitoring capabilities. The solution, CMNavigo, is functionally comprehensive, unified, and integrated, leveraging the latest hardware and software technologies to implement open, scalable, flexible, and extensible shop floor control systems. The implementation of the solution consisted mainly in the configuration of the Equipment Tracking and Real Time Graphical Fab Monitor modules of CMNavigo and an equipment integration module to supply the MES with real-time events from the equipment. The company also used the design module of CMNavigo to draw multiple layouts representing the real physical layout of the fab. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Semiconductors

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The company, one of the world's largest providers of semiconductor manufacturing assembly and test services, was facing challenges in tracking, monitoring, and optimizing the utilization of its several thousand processing equipment in its high-volume manufacturing site in China. The main requirements were to capture equipment status and historical information automatically for real-time knowledge and performance analysis over time, and to visualize the status of all the equipment in real-time in a graphical manner representing the actual physical fab layout. The large scale of the operation necessitated a solution that was scalable, flexible, and had state-of-the-art visualization and reporting capabilities.

About Customer

The customer is a company founded in the 1980s and is one of the world's largest providers of semiconductor manufacturing assembly and test services. The company operates a high-volume manufacturing site in China that consists of several buildings with multiple production floors per building and with several thousand processing equipment in total. The company's operations are large-scale, requiring a solution that can handle the volume and complexity of its operations. The company also has a specific equipment state model that consists of six main states with approximately one hundred sub-states.

Solution

To address the challenges, the company selected a Next Generation Manufacturing Execution System which provided Equipment Tracking and Real Time Graphical Fab Monitoring capabilities. The solution, CMNavigo, is functionally comprehensive, unified, and integrated, leveraging the latest hardware and software technologies to implement open, scalable, flexible, and extensible shop floor control systems. The implementation of the solution consisted mainly in the configuration of the Equipment Tracking and Real Time Graphical Fab Monitor modules of CMNavigo and an equipment integration module to supply the MES with real-time events from the equipment. The company also used the design module of CMNavigo to draw multiple layouts representing the real physical layout of the fab.

Impact #1	Real-time visibility into the shop-floor operations
Impact #2	Capability to perform offline analysis to monitor the equipment performance and comparisons against other equipment
Impact #3	Automatic collection of equipment events delivering a high degree of data accuracy

Impact #1

Real-time visibility into the shop-floor operations

Impact #2

Capability to perform offline analysis to monitor the equipment performance and comparisons against other equipment

Impact #3

Automatic collection of equipment events delivering a high degree of data accuracy

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Real Time Fab Monitoring At A High Volume Semiconductor Back-End

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