Semiconductor Industry

Agile Manufacturing through a Close Collaboration between Engineering and Volume Production

Continuous Model Improvement
Increasing product mix, cost pressure and technological complexity require monitoring and control models to be developed and maintained at an even faster rate.

Our APC\Platform allows all three steps of continuous process improvement to be integrated into a comprehensive cycle of planning, execution and maintenance.

Closing the Software Engineering Gap We believe a factory-wide process control solution should be flexible, providing powerful continuous improvement features that put the focus on the core process experts. Saving and Sharing your Intellectual Property Mastering the overall process has become a competitive factor for leading-edge manufacturing technologies. Our APC\Platform’s technology strictly separates your process engineering knowledge from the product software.

We consider engineering knowledge to be expertise that extends from data collection, to data processing, visualization, automated decision-making and control.
In addition, the APC\Platform enables you to manage and reuse this expertise among collaborating teams of engineers located at a single site or spread throughout the whole enterprise.

Long-Term Investment Low Maintenance

Growing with Engineering Requirements and Experience We also believe that a factory-wide process control solution should support your specific requirements of today and yet be comprehensive and adaptive so that it can be extended to match the future requirements and experience of your engineers. Adaptive Our target is to make your process control solution a long-term investment. Therefore our APC\Platform is highly adaptive – both automatically and through intuitive configuration.

Scenarios within the APC\Platform are self-adaptive, recalculating their setup or learning from changing correlations and trends within historical data.

Additional scenarios that monitor, investigate or control additional processes, equipment or abstract views of them are modeled within the APC\Platform. Template techniques allow the reuse of complex scenarios, thus lowering administrative effort and allowing proven scenarios to be made directly available for use on other equipment, processes or manufacturing sites.

Obviously, with an increasing number of scenarios the amount of data and the number of data types also increases. However, there is no need to be concerned about administrating the underlying databases. The APC\Platform manages them implicitly, generically combining context data and trace data in a highly effective and scaleable way. The APC\Platform puts data collection into the hands of core process experts, making their diagnostic work more accurate and flexible.

We support data collection on historical data enriched with context information, and on-line data collection based on the new SEMI Interface A standards.

Scaleable Architecture
The APC\Platform also grows to meet increasing load. Due to its service-oriented distributed architecture (SODA) it is possible to start with a single server environment and later expand seamlessly without any additional administrative effort.