Tim Hewitt from Siemens to speak at SEMICON WEST

Tim Hewitt, Director for Industry Services, Siemens PLM, will present “Smart Manufacturing in the IC Industry: Realizing the Digital Factory Vision,” during the session Next Generation Smart Manufacturing: Collaboration Towards Enabling Practical Predictive Analytics and Traceability Across the Electronics Supply Chain.  The SEMICON WEST Conference session is co-Hosted by the SEMI Smart Manufacturing Advisory Council.

Session abstract: While the electronics sector is already well experienced with automation and data analysis to improve yields and reduce costs, the current increase in the complexity of manufacturing processes, the improvements in sophisticated data management tools, and the increasingly inter-related value chain are now creating new opportunities for significantly improving performance, but also new challenges in putting all the parts together.  We will look at the future vision for smart manufacturing across our industry, the key challenges to get there, the practicalities of predictive maintenance and predictive simulation, and the issues and solutions for communicating the needed data efficiently and securely across suppliers and customers for the benefit of all. 

When: The SEMICON WEST session begins on Tuesday, July 11, at 2:00pm. Tim Hewitt speaks at 2:10pm.