June 21, 2022
FutureFab Solutions Webinar
Adopting AI-driven Smart Manufacturing Technologies: Case Studies from Seagate Technology and Tier 1 Automotive Suppliers
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Time
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Online, Central European Time (CEST)
Germany
What will the future of wafer fabrication look like? With innovative AI-driven technologies paving the way for significant improvements in efficiency, quality, and on-time delivery whilst driving down costs – chip manufacturers need to be paying close attention. In SEMI’s FutureFab Solutions webinar, two disruptive deep-tech companies, Flexciton and Lynceus AI, will introduce their cutting-edge technologies and discuss the efficiency gains achieved from deploying these solutions into a live production environment.
Flexciton & Seagate Technology Presentation
Improving wafer fab capacity by applying an advanced production scheduling to the photolithography area in a Seagate Technology wafer fab.
Wafer fabrication relies heavily on the photolithography process. These processes are extremely difficult to schedule due to their complexity, which involves a critical auxiliary resource: reticles. Many wafer fabs that use rules-based scheduling systems struggle to achieve high throughput at photolithography. Because photo tools are the most expensive equipment in a fab, it may result in significant efficiency losses and cost increases. During this session, attendees will learn more about:
- Flexciton’s optimization-driven solution and the scheduling strategy used to optimize the photolithography area.
- A real case study from Seagate Technology on the results achieved from deploying Flexciton scheduler into the photolithography area.
- How Flexciton’s advanced scheduling enabled an increase in throughput and a reduction in the number of reticle moves.
Lynceus Presentation
Current quality control processes in semiconductor manufacturing are both stringent and inefficient, with most defects spotted too late and after-the-fact, causing significant scrap. Real-time process control provides an opportunity to minimize wafer scrap and associated use of consumables, improving both yield and sustainability of wafer fabs.
During this session, attendees will learn more about:
- How real-time performance monitoring can dramatically speed up and increase the accuracy of fault detection.
- Real case studies presented by Lynceus and how Lynceus’ technology has already enabled value in deployment on deep trench etching quality predictions at a tier 1 automotive supplier.
- How Lynceus enables reduced metrology sampling and faster time to detect faults in a photolithography use case.
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Agenda
Welcome Remarks
Presentation by Flexciton & Seagate
Biography
Tina is a Senior Manager at Seagate Technology in Springtown, Derry, Northern Ireland. She is a critical contributor in the information systems leadership team that has made a transformative impact on wafer manufacturing processes with their cutting-edge innovation in automation workflow and simulation/optimisation systems. She holds a BEng degree in Electronic Engineering and Computing and a PhD in Supply Chain Optimisation from Ulster University.
Biography
Jamie is an expert in Mathematics and Statistics and graduated top of his year from the University of Oxford. He is passionate about solving hard problems. An entrepreneur at heart and by choice. At Flexciton, along with his role as the CEO, he leads the commercial and operations teams. In 2018, Jamie was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 list.
Presentation by Lynceus
Biography
David co-founded Lynceus in 2020 after several years of helping PE funds invest in industrial assets and taking market leadership operations roles at high-growth start-ups such as Uber and Circ (acquired by Bird). David focused on taking Lynceus' predictive testing software to the market and is now building a world-class team to support its growth.
Live Q&A and Conclusions
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About Presenting Companies
About Seagate
Seagate Technology is a data storage company and the Springtown facility is at the heart of the $25Billion dollar data storage industry. Seagate opened its wafer facility in Derry in N. Ireland in 1993. There are only 5 types of facilities in the world which we are the largest. Seagate has a second wafer facility in Minnesota which mirrors what we produce here in Derry. The Springtown facility supplies approx. 25% of all read-write heads for hard drives globally. www.seagate.com
About Flexciton
Flexciton applies cutting-edge technology to optimize the planning and scheduling decisions for the world's most complex manufacturing process - semiconductor wafer fabrication. Utilizing over 10 years of academic research and industrial studies, Flexciton's engineers have developed a hybrid-optimization model aimed at solving the production scheduling problems that were previously unsolvable. Flexciton is a member of SEMI.org and FOA. The company was shortlisted for the Best of West Award at SemiconWest 2020. www.flexciton.com
About Lynceus
Lynceus is building the first predictive OS for semiconductor manufacturing. We provide a software platform that requires no extra hardware and leverages manufacturing data (live machine parameters and conditions, metrology tests) to predict the performance of manufactured wafers (in-line and end-of-line quality tests). For each process step, we build the most robust models, combining state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and deep process understanding. This enables gains for our customers both through yield improvement and added production capacity. Lynceus is a member of SEMI. www.lynceus.ai
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