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Fab of the future: Velocity with smart manufacturing

October 8, 2021

2-MINUTE READ

Overview

Fabs should embrace digital technologies across the supply chain ecosystem to become a truly digitally connected and digital-led smart fab.

Key challenges and priorities

People and skills

Fabs need to find the right people with the right expertise or equip existing talent with the skills to handle changing digital technologies.

Design

Chips are requiring more advanced nodes and complex designs, resulting numerous challenges like high costs, slow maturity and high turnaround times.

Production

Deploying new technologies into production takes time and smaller chip sizes can increase challenges due to limitations in Moore’s Law.

Quality

Industries require reliable chips but traditional checks can be ineffective in detecting defects, making quality ripe for advanced digital tools.

Planning

Chip shortages have extended lead times and made sourcing materials complex, resulting in supply chain disruptions a priority for manufacturing.

Packaging

Multiple integration technology packages pose a challenge for traditional design tools forcing design teams to verify and optimize their system.

Sustainability

Semi manufacturing is responsible for major water consumption and chemical emissions. Smart fabs can track power, emissions and water usage.

Fab of the future – making Industry 4.0 live

How to become a fab of the future

Gopichand Gurada

PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR – STRATEGY & CONSULTING, INDUSTRY X


Amit Kumar

Managing Director – Strategy & Consulting


Prasad Satyavolu

MANAGING DIRECTOR – STRATEGY & CONSULTING - INDUSTRY X, NORTH AMERICA

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