Challenge: Recipe verification

Nowadays high-tech manufacturing recipes have become tremendously complex so that it is hard even for experienced process engineers to detect all potential contractions inside a process flow, especially as process sequences become longer and longer. Therefore the manual review of runcards and planned DoEs has become a tedious, time consuming and sometimes even error prone task.

Challenge: Historical data retrieval

Every new product or product enhancement starts with a new idea. In the area of process and device design, personal experiences gained through previous developments provide a major contribution to new developments.

Challenge: Time to market

To cut the time-to-market and the cost of development is essential for all companies. This is especially true for the high-tech industries, which are particularly suffering in the current climate.