What´s new in Opcenter Execution Semiconductor 2510

Delivering improved user experience and executional excellence

Summary

Siemens Opcenter™ Execution Semiconductor is a comprehensive manufacturing execution system (MES) that enables both wafer fabrication factories and assembly and test sites to meet traceability requirements, control production and integrate the shop floor into their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and extended enterprise. Siemens Opcenter Execution Semiconductor addresses your needs on a configurable, scalable, and modular platform for production.

This release contains the GA release of the enhancements to multiple Mendix user interfaces and delivers a series of Semi enhancements along with new features from Opcenter Execution Core product.

Benefits

• Provide enhanced role-based user experience
• Simplified configuration through AI-powered solutions
• Enhanced tooling simplifies application administration
• On-premises telemetry and performance analytics
• Delivers additional Semiconductor enhancements

New Semiconductor features and enhancements

WIP main simple Mendix UI enhancements

WIP main simple now supports the following manufacturing activities

• Lot packing
• AQL sampling

WIP Main Simple now supports Electronic Signatures functionality for the following transactions

• WIP Main States – MoveIn, TrackIn, TrackOut and MoveOut
• WIP Main Activities – Lot Binning, Carrier Validation, In-Process Split, Lot Rejects, WIP Data, WIP Data Sampling. Sorting and Set Test Program

Engineering Mendix UI enhancements

Enhancements made to recipe management and future hold matrix Mendix UIs. We have applied a series of optimizations to both UIs to align the user experience to make it consistent.

• Grids improved to provide the same look and feel of both UIs and screens.
• Filtering has added partial text search.
• Label updated for consistency
• Recipe management added Add Matrix icon to add a new matrix.

Containerization support for semiconductor

The 2510 release delivers the container image for containerized deployments. The image supports deployments to an Azure platform with Oracle database.

Semi printing feature OOB

Semi printing feature module is now available for download from the Siemens Support Center.

Child combination modeling field update for equipment object

The column field size for the child combination field size increased from 20 characters to 4000 characters. Eliminates having to make this change during deployment or in the future for complex child equipment combinations.

WIP instruction enhancement

Enhanced WIP instructions now provide the ability to apply WIP instructions for each lot when processing multiple containers/lots.

MoveNonStandard enhancement

This enhancement provides the ability to “Reset Rework Status” when executing a MoveNonStandard transaction from a rework step.

New Core technology and features inherited by Semi

Bypass operator certification validation

Delivered an enhancement that allows configuration to bypass Operator Certification validation

The enhancements made to the Core product and adopted into Semi functionality. Employee field has a checkbox to Skip Training Requirement Validation.

Dynamic purge tool – general availability

• Supports purging data from the transaction database
• Can optionally archive it into a designated schema
• Provides the ability to restore the archived data
• Supports automation through Microsoft SQL Server agent jobs to enable scheduled purging and archiving operations
• Available for Microsoft SQL Server only

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) tool

• Tool which reads metadata file and assigns referential integrity relationships
  • Provides instructions on how to visualize the ERD
  • Branded as Opcenter Meta Link

Observability

• Enables on-premises performance monitoring and observability through OpenTelemetry
• Allows the use of OpenTelemetry in place of Azure Application Insights for Azure monitoring

RESTful API enhancements

• Extends action attributes to shop floor transactions
• Optimizes the Swagger schema
• Adds the ability to manage multiple data points in a single user defined data collection (UDCD)

Additional enhancements

• Introduced enhancements to the Ansible playbooks
• Supports a containerized deployment of the Mendix portal on AWS and Azure
• Enables single sign-on with Mendix via security assertion markup language (SAML) based identity providers (IdP)
  • Can navigate seamlessly from the Portal to Mendix

Technology enhancements

• Chrome 140+
• Edge Chromium 140+
• Dynamsoft 10.4.3100
• TinyMCE 6.8.4
• Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 replaced with Microsoft 365 Access Runtime
• Updated Progress DataDirect ODBC wire protocol driver for Oracle and SQL Server
• Mendix 10.24.4

Product Release Fixes

For the list of PRs addressed, please see the release notes.