SEMATECH Picks Eyelit's Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Suite

Eyelit Inc. a provider of manufacturing software announced that SEMATECH (News - Alert) has selected its Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Suite or MES for replacing its existing system.

SEMATECH is a global consortium of the world’s leading chip manufacturers. The Eyelit software is implemented at SEMATECH’s Mask Blank Development Center or MBDC, located at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany.

Eyelit manufacturing software enables visibility, control and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace and defense, electronics, life sciences, semiconductor and solar industries.

SEMATECH’s MBDC strives to reduce the number of defects that arise from any manufacturing process. Eyelit’s solution will provide comprehensive tracking of WIP, raw materials, inventory, experiments and tools.

MBDC is using Eyelit MES to perform process analyses and to track defect statistics. The information so collected will be leveraged to perform corrective actions, which is expected to improve the accuracy of the manufacturing process.

Anne Rudack, SEMATECH’s EUV MBDC Operations Manager said in a release, “We were rapidly outgrowing the capabilities of our system and needed an out-of-the-box solution that could grow with us. We were able to implement Eyelit in just eight weeks, while gaining the control and data discovery functions needed to meet our process improvement goals for the benefit of our members and partners.”

Crispin Panyard, vice president of operations for Eyelit Inc. explained that it became more difficult for SEMATECH to determine the origin of defects with increase in variables introduced into the process. Variables, like recipe use, cycle time, carrier use, and other critical factors, were not easily tracked in the existing system.

In such a scenario Eyelit provided a clear path for obtaining these variable values in order to allow process engineers and researchers to uncover the cause of defects easily.

“With a working model at SEMATECH, we can now demonstrate to leading semiconductor companies Eyelit’s ability to drive down IT system costs. Eyelit’s unique Legacy MES migration capability helps older wafer fabs to modernize, without negatively impacting a running factory,” Panyard added.

Eyelit specializes in Manufacturing Execution and Quality Management solutions for visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations. Eyelit’s manufacturing solutions include Asset Management, Factory Integration or Automation, Manufacturing Execution, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management, and Business Process Management. These solutions help customers optimize production and company processes easily.