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Greenfield Speed to MES Delivers First Round Win

Company Size

1,000+

Region

America

Country

Brazil

Product

Critical Manufacturing MES

Tech Stack

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Revenue Growth

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Electronics

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services
System Integration

About The Customer

HT Micron is a joint venture between PARIT group of Brazil and Hana Micron of South Korea. The company has invested over R$ 165 million to build the largest semiconductor facility in Latin America. The plant, which includes 7,500 m² of cleanroom, has the capacity to create over 800 direct jobs. The company currently occupies over 3,000 m² for IC assembly and component test. This space also includes a Class 100k cleanroom for sister company Teikon’s SMT and module / SSD test lines. With enough people to manage, oversee, and run several dozen wire bonders, plus wafer sawing, die attach, molding, marking, etc. this is not a small or simple new facility.

The Challenge

HT Micron, a semiconductor facility in São Leopoldo Brazil, needed to implement a manufacturing execution system (MES) within two months to meet the demands of Tier 1 international customers. The company was starting up in a country with no industry experience and no MES consultants with semiconductor experience. The MES was critical for the company to get on the approved vendor list of global Tier 1 customers and to stay efficient and flexible as their volume and product mix grow. The company also faced the challenge of training every employee and getting to market rapidly.

The Solution

HT Micron selected a modern MES from an experienced company and used core functions out of the box with minor customization. The company licensed a core MES platform to model the plant and store data plus WIP, equipment, durables, consumables, carrier tracking, dispatching, on-line visualization, engineering data analysis, reporting, SPC. The MES supplier installed the software and created specific routing rules, parameter-based automatic actions and specific reports. All production was tracked in the MES from January 1, 2015. The company is planning to expand the team’s knowhow with the MES and add automation, maintenance and other modern MES functions in the future.

Operational Impact

The MES was a prerequisite for major international customer wins.
The first customer auditor was amazed that HT Micron had an MES in place so quickly that will meet all of their needs.
Beyond that, MES provides faster response time, higher quality via enforced routings, and reporting from the system without manual Excel data entry.

Quantitative Benefit

The plant was running test lots in the MES and training their employees in December.
By January, all reports for the semiconductor packaging and test line started coming from the MES.
The first phase of the MES project is considered a success by HT Micron as they have successfully qualified the tier 1 customers that they targeted in 2015.