Friday, March 27, 2009

A Warehouse Management System Appropriate for the Semi-Conductor Industry

Not all warehouse management systems (WMS) are created equal. In the third party logistics world, the right WMS will make or break your rate of productivity, efficiency, and your return on investment (ROI). The semi-conductor industry works on an entirely different level. Semi-conductors are used in electronics, computers, cell phones, and digital and analog integrated circuits. A single unit may take 200 to 500 operations to manufacture, so a minimal adjustment can make a huge affect on your financial outcome.

The development of a software system that is specifically developed towards the semi-conductor industry is imperative to the success of your organization, especially in an economy that the survival of a company is measured by minimal financial increments. A few years ago, a visual software system was developed by ILOG called Fab PowerOps (FPO). This system optimizes technology by applying mathematics and computer science schematics to create algorithms to adjust production process every five minutes. All the specifications are calculated within the provision required for the semi-conductor manufacturers. PowerOps offers an operating solution software that is configurable for the process areas: such as diffusion, which is the gradual mixing of material from a high concentration to a lower concentration, photodiodes that is similar to regular semi-conductor diodes, plasma etching process, and CMP.

This system also integrates with your current WMS system, so do not feel that you need to begin from the basics to implement this system. The benefits of a system that is specifically created to work within the semi-conductor industry allows you to use real-time detailed production scheduling to maintain just-in-time manufacturing. In fact, the production schedule is recalibrated every five minutes. Gone are the days of manually working out plans and schedules for manufacturing in order to maximize efficiently.

Source
the-new-economics-of-semiconductor-manufacturing-part-3-final/
http://www.fabtech.org/product

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