CenterPoint, with headquarters in Villach and an office in Warsaw, Poland, was founded in 2000 and develops and markets software for APC Advanced Process Control) and FDC(Fault Detection and Classification) for industrial applications.

In order to boost product development and accelerate market penetration Venture Capital investors together with KWF and AWS fund the company.

We have been cooperating with International Sematech and SEMI since 2002.

CenterPoint is a member of the SEMI e-manufacturing task forces who develop new e-manufacturing standards (EDA standards)

CenterPoint is the provider of comprehensive software solutions for agile manufacturing - from data acquisition right through to the enhancement of entire manufacturing processes. Key to the success of the CenterPoint solutions is the incorporation of cutting-edge methodologies in data mining and knowledge management.

The tolerance bandwidths for current product characteristics and processes in manufacturing are getting tighter. Product quality has become more important to today's customers. Manufacturability, time-to-market and pricing are critical factors for success in the modern economy.

Essential to the success of products is being able to get them from design to stable manufacturing processes that give high yields in a flexibly distributed production supply chain. Agile, optimized AND stable manufacturing processes must be ensured to allow a professional response to rapidly changing market requirements in product quality, costs and market locations.

The solution is to incorporate fab-wide intelligent decision support systems into the manufacturing process.