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Learn how semiconductor factory automation experts are navigating technology, people, and market dynamics to gain competitive advantage in semiconductor manufacturing. Popular semiconductor categories include MES, AI/ML technologies, quality, productivity, scheduling, use cases, and smart manufacturing.

Move to full automation

Maximize the full potential of your factory: improve quality, cycle time, and asset utilization.

Semiconductor Manufacturing Execution

Automating the manual: Durables management for semiconductor manufacturing

Assembly Test and Packaging burn-in use case scenario using SmartFactory Durables Management

2023 PROMIS User Group

Introducing the new PROMIS on Linux!

Automated tool recovery increases equipment efficiency

SmartFactory 300works^® can help reduce an often-overlooked component of maintenance downtime

Are you ready to reduce or even avoid unplanned downtime for your manufacturing software systems?

SmartFactory Monitor prevents factory-impacting problems through performance trend analysis and predictive analytics.

Are you ready to achieve new levels of real-time decision intelligence in your factory?

New SmartFactory message bus – critical to enable advanced automated manufacturing

Reduce cycle time with a powerful MES strategy

Increase KPIs by automating repetitive tasks and improving communication

Beyond the MES: Crawl. Walk. Run. (Part 1/2)

The MES provides a critical foundation for the semiconductor factory as needs change over time.

Beyond the MES: Fly. (Part 2/2)

Advanced capabilities and MES provide the intelligence that is key to the ‘lights out’ factory

Reduce production noise and boost operation efficiency

SmartFactory team unveils new solution for handling alarms

Semiconductor AI/ML technologies

Enhancing decision-making in real-time scheduling: leveraging data and AI technology (Part 2/4)

Understanding and defining AI and ML

Enhancing decision-making in real-time scheduling: leveraging data and AI technology (Part 1/4)

This blog series focuses on the role of data in helping semiconductor manufacturers achieve greater benefits in productivity and quality.

Dr. James Moyne and Samantha Duchscherer discuss the relevance of data in real-time scheduling

This series focuses on how to achieve greater benefits in productivity and quality

SmartFactory AI Productivity integrates with scheduling solutions, helping manufacturers improve throughput, cycle times, utilization, and yield.

This fully integrated solution enables manufacturers to manage deployments in as little as six months, a quarter of the time it typically takes them to develop individual models.

Innovations that will help semiconductor manufacturers increase efficiency in real-time

Semiconductor growth is anticipated and there are many tools to help drive it

Upcoming events in Japan: advancing factory automation with SmartFactory solutions

Everything you need to increase quality and productivity in factories of any size

Accelerating AI deployment in semiconductor manufacturing with simulation

Learn how simulation revolutionizes AI deployment in semiconductor manufacturing, overcomes data collection challenges and enhances productivity. Explore valuable insights in this article.

SmartFactory AI Productivity tunes dispatching rule parameters automatically, in less time

Uncover the transformative power of smart manufacturing for semiconductor operations, enhancing productivity, efficiency, decision-making, and data security. Find optimal value in hours instead of days.

Solve productivity and supply chain issues with AI/ML

Pre-built AI/ML models enable fabs to increase productivity, improve KPIs

Semiconductor Quality

Synergizing Fault Detection and SPC: smarter manufacturing solution for cost reduction

Integrating the functions of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Fault Detection (FD) helps semiconductor manufacturers achieve higher quality, reliability, and efficiency

Benefits of unifying process control in semiconductor manufacturing

Achieve better detection, decision making, and costs through unified process control

Enhance manufacturing efficiency with SmartFactory Unified Process Control

Explore AI-driven process quality improvement with SmartFactory’s UPC solution in this engaging article by Applied SmartFactory.

Improve yield for better profitability, less waste with SmartFactory SPC3D^®

Automating analytics reduces defects, optimizing continuous improvement

Moving toward zero-defects manufacturing with gusto to make your factories smarter

This blog series discusses strategies, priorities, and challenges manufacturers face to automate factories of any size to move the needle towards zero defects manufacturing

Zero-defect strategy: steering the automotive manufacturing electronic revolution

Increase yield and reduce costs of non-quality in automotive manufacturing

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Drive yield enhancements with better visibility

Improve yield learning and accelerate yield ramp using an integrated yield analysis solution

Catch and fix defects faster

Quickly determine root cause of failures using complete, integrated defect analysis solution

Semiconductor Productivity

Unveiling the Advantages of Reinforcement Learning

Explore how reinforcement learning offers a revolutionary approach to using real world data to solve complex scheduling and dispatching challenges in semiconductor manufacturing.

Establishing a blueprint to optimize productivity with advanced factory automation

Envisioning where you are and how to get there to ease deployment, ensuring smart manufacturing.

SmartFactory Private Cloud – Part 1: Roadmap to Deployment

Framework makes it easier to plan and implement APF solutions in the cloud

Evolutionary optimization of dispatch rule parameters

Dynamically optimize a dispatch rule’s parameters for better lot scheduling.

Common Data Model enables RAPID deployment for productivity solutions – Challenges (Part 1/3)

Data challenges for rapid deployment of factory productivity and supply chain solutions

Common Data Model enables RAPID deployment for productivity solutions – Solutions (Part 2/3)

Common data framework for rapid deployment of factory productivity and supply chain solutions

Common Data Model enables RAPID deployment for productivity solutions – Dispatching and Reporting (Part 3/3)

Improve cycle time by 10% in less than 6 months using SmartFactory Dispatching Solution

Optimize factory performance

Madhav Kidambi describes how to improve factory performance from the enterprise down to the factory floor.

Ready to keep pace with productivity demands in the market?

Learn how to shorten cycle time, manage bottlenecks and react in real-time using integrated productivity solutions.

Semiconductor Planning

Boosting productivity with advanced planning & scheduling solutions.

New ways to streamline device production processes and wring higher productivity.

Semiconductor Scheduling

Using a framework to validate factory scheduling solution systems (Part 1/2)

A quality factory scheduling solution can improve equipment productivity, product quality, and on-time delivery of products

Using a framework to validate factory scheduling solution systems (Part 2/2)

Make more advanced validations and fine tune the schedule generated by a factory schedule solution system to get the most from your semiconductor factory

Pros and cons of various scheduling solutions for semiconductor factories

Choose scheduling that will be the right fit for your factory needs

Analyze impact of dispatching and scheduling Algorithms on factory KPI’s

Use APF Fusion® to integrate dispatching and scheduling algorithms.

Improve throughput by 5-10% using SmartFactory dispatching solutions

Increase productivity by another 3-5% by integrating SmartFactory scheduling and dispatching solutions

Semiconductor Use Cases

Avalign Technologies improved planner productivity by approximately 75% using SmartFactory Production Control

Production Control simulation identifies roadblocks and overcomes challenges

Infineon Technologies maximizes ROI real-time with SmartFactory Activity Manager^®

Activity Manager quickly tests models, puts data in easy-to-compare interface

Infineon Technologies describes how they optimize productivity

Enable dispatching, planning, and scheduling solutions integrated with real-time data to boost factory productivity.

UMC describes how they achieved manufacturing operations excellence

UMC integrates real-time dispatching, full automation workflow, MES 300works^® and more.

Semiconductor Smart Manufacturing

Next-Generation of Advanced Automation Solutions

Increasing quality and productivity in factories of any size with Applied SmartFactory integrated automation solutions for semiconductor manufacturers

What is Smart Manufacturing?

We define smart manufacturing as striving for zero defects and optimal asset utilization of trying to get the most out of what you have. This allows you to drive the highest quality in your semiconductor factory and create the most profit from your operations.

What can smart manufacturing do for you?

Top benefits for innovative semiconductor manufacturers

Shaping the future to create intelligent factories

Manufacturers rely on SmartFactory solutions to improve process quality, increase factory performance, and maximize performance of equipment.

Moving to a new level of intelligent manufacturing.

Semiconductor manufacturing has moved through several levels of technology. Now the industry is entering another change cycle.

Semiconductor Webinar Replays

Automating the Manual

In this webinar, Selim Nahas, Yoram Barak and Chandramouli Sankaranarayanan discuss the importance of durables monitoring in semiconductor manufacturing.

SmartFactory SPC: Mastering Quality

Vishali Ragam leads a webinar focused on statistical process control and how it fits into process quality.

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