Global Product Manager SCADA Edwards, NY, United States
Fab utilization is at record highs. CSR and sustainability priorities are growing and customers are seeking more initiatives to increase their productivity while simultaneously reducing their environmental impact. Critical subsystem systems like vacuum and abatement in clean room and subfab have so far not been fully considered when optimizing manufacturing efficiency. This is changing. Increasingly, suppliers of critical subsystems are working with their customers, i.e., IDMs and fab owners, in collaborative partnerships to maximize tool availability and get more from their supply chain, all at the lowest environmental cost. A core component of these collaborative partnerships is Smart Manufacturing. Applying Smart Manufacturing results in a better alignment of Edwards and customer goals through outcome-based services and solutions. In an outcome-based services model the value of these solutions are expressed in terms of increased tool uptime, decreased wafer loss, lower repair costs, decreased metrology costs, and other costs associated with production qualification. Minimizing costs through Smart Manufacturing and providing long-range maintenance guidance and maintenance prioritization drives operational efficiencies. These efficiencies are typically quantified through Fab-based metrics such as Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, and environment (SQDCPE). Developing Smart Manufacturing tools specifically for critical vacuum and abatement systems is an active area of application and development for Edwards. Process and process-tool focused clean room analytics such as SPC and FDC can be very sophisticated and have evolved over many years to do specific tasks. These tasks are different from what is needed to provide maintenance guidance and maintenance prioritization for vacuum and abatement systems. Smart Manufacturing tools developed by Edwards differ in nature, scope, and intent from clean room based and process tool-focused data analytics. Crucially, they make accurate long-range predictions without knowing in detail what the process tool is doing or what process is running. Rather, they detect the effect of the process conditions on abatement, pumps, and wider vacuum environment such as fore-lines and exhaust lines. In the presentation we will further illustrate the Smart Manufacturing components and methods Edwards deploys to provide long-range maintenance guidance and maintenance prioritization, thereby reducing risk and uncertainty associated with unscheduled equipment downs.
