A phased implementation of ProFicient spells quality for TEL NEXX
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Stratus™ Electrochemical Deposition System
- Apollo Sputtering System
- InfinityQS® ProFicient™
技术栈
- Tablets for data entry
- Laptops for managers and administrators
- Microsoft Access database
实施规模
- Departmental Deployment
影响指标
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 分析与建模 - 预测分析
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
- 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
适用行业
- 半导体
适用功能
- 质量保证
用例
- 机器状态监测
- 预测性维护
- 过程控制与优化
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
TEL NEXX, a subsidiary of Tokyo Electron (TEL), provides metallization solutions to chip designers and manufacturers. The company specializes in back-end-of-the-line systems, including the Stratus™ Electrochemical Deposition System and Apollo Sputtering System, which deposit metals through electrochemical deposition (ECD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes. These systems are designed to handle wafer-level packaging and form factor reduction critical to the production of semiconductors for smart devices. TEL NEXX’s machines are built for heavy volume and a long useful life, capable of handling wafers ranging in diameter from 100 mm to 300 mm. The company follows rigorous internal quality assurance processes and complies with SEMI S2, ISO 9001:2015, and OSHA standards. TEL NEXX maintains extensive documentation and detailed archives to meet customer requirements and continually improve its processes.
挑战
In the semiconductor industry, any variation is undesirable. TEL NEXX’s chip-manufacturing customers require strict variation control. To meet customers’ needs and expectations, TEL NEXX strives to learn and continually improve its processes. Historically, TEL NEXX relied almost entirely on manual data collection and quality control, and operators had to enter data into spreadsheets for report generation. These systems were time-consuming and required rechecking to avoid errors. To run reports in the consumables area, for example, Hart had to locate specific spreadsheets and analyze them for answers. When customers submitted inquiries, response times could be slow. With management looking to modernize and improve data collection and response, a move to InfinityQS® ProFicient™ offered many benefits and opportunities. But the transition had to occur in a way that supported operator adoption and didn’t disrupt production.
解决方案
Hart has been largely responsible for the incremental rollout of ProFicient at TEL NEXX. Adoption began in January 2017 in the consumables area and over six months expanded to other areas for test and evaluation. Hart rolled out the ProFicient software on two production lines, with plans to roll the solution out to four more lines by the end of 2017. Line operators in the test sections were given tablets on which ProFicient is installed for direct data entry, with laptops for the managers and administrators. In addition to the use of tablets instead of paper-based checklists for data entry, Hart and his team are phasing in ProFicient integration with existing shop-floor systems. “One of the projects,” Hart notes, “is currently set up to drive our label printing software, which previously relied on a Microsoft Access database.” He notes that the team plans to automate a handful of existing test stands by the end of the year. Before ProFicient, Hart had no way to review data and get feedback in real time. Now he has access to additional data, such as time stamps and traceability variables that were not captured before. “Continuous improvement projects for the manufacturing and testing of our consumable product lines are critical to maintaining our competitive differentiation. There is a trend towards process automation and metrics analysis, which is where InfinityQS can play a big role.”
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