Semiconductor Blog

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.

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Semiconductor AI/ML technologies

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.

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 3/4)

Realizing the challenges and opportunities AI brings to semiconductor manufacturing

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

Diving into digital twins: debunking misconceptions and unveiling the digital twin framework

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

What if you could improve manufacturing performance in half the time?

With integrated scheduling and analytics, manufacturers are streamlining operations and seeing results in as little as six months.

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.

Semiconductor Manufacturing Execution

Smarter alarm management: from chaos to control

The right alarms at the right time, to the right people

Stop the noise! Avoid alarm overload to identify the most important issues in your factory

SmartFactory Alarm Management improves productivity by integrating and automating alarms

Streamline alarm management for a faster response and resolution

Simplify alarm management throughout the factory by integrating SmartFactory Alarm Management with key systems

Reduce costly, unplanned downtime in your factory with SmartFactory Monitor

Monitor your manufacturing software and system performance from anywhere in the world

Optimize MES intelligence in semiconductor advanced packaging

SmartFactory MES for ATP brings die tracking and traceability, material consumption history to the fan-out process

Automating the manual: Consumables management for semiconductor manufacturing

Consumables, the unsung heroes of the production floor

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

Semiconductor Quality

Achieve faster resolution of SPC and FDC violations

Extend automation intelligence capabilities in your factory with cohesive OCAP solution using SmartFactory Knowledge Advisor.

The Point of Truth for Runtime Recipe Control

The latest release of SmartFactory Recipe Management offers better data synchronization options for runtime recipe control.

Improve yield learning and accelerate yield ramp

Building a quality ecosystem in your fab with pre-integrated SmartFactory Yield and Defect Management solutions

Automotive quality: striving for zero defects

Learn how to steer the automotive electronic revolution by doubling down on a zero-defect mindset to reduce the cost of non-quality.

Bringing new levels of efficiency and quality to the fab

Selim Nahas shares insights on ways to reduce human variability and improve problem solving in the fab.

Taking factory quality to the next level, combining data in a cohesive manner

Quality improvement strategies that provide users with recommended actions.

Semiconductor Productivity

Move to full automation

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

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.

Factory automation is key to overcoming productivity challenges

Shekar Krishnaswamy shares insights on how planning, scheduling, equipment control and overall operations improve cycle time, factory output, costs and customer delivery.