Collaboration will guarantee green
The consumer semiconductor market is poised to grow substantially in the coming years. In addition to the demands of scaling production, industry players must address mounting competition, intricate supply chains, diminished product lifecycles, and the need to constantly redesign new products; all while remaining sustainable.
Sustainability is the top priority for many organizations as they strive to meet regulations and consider shifts in consumer attitude. Customers and shareholders alike are increasingly interacting with businesses that aspire to make their processes, services, and products more sustainable. To tackle these concerns, companies need holistic approaches to product design and manufacturing that address the long-term impact of products while remaining profitable.
Creating the intelligence ecosystem
First, the semiconductor industry must address broader and more complex organizational and technological hurdles to meet its environmental goals. It is no longer feasible to simply hope for ideas and solutions to result in greener businesses processes. Instead, several teams throughout organizations must collectively strive to enhance their decision-making capabilities.
Analyzing a product across its entire value chain is required to ensure sustainability. By utilizing both organizational data and the experience of employees across teams, a company can rely on collective intelligence to drive better decisions and eventually optimize the entire ecosystem.
To further build on this intelligence ecosystem, companies can introduce digital twins. The digital twin can enrich insights gained from multi-team collaboration, empowering engineers to think bigger and bolder. From there, companies can accurately simulate the product’s lifecycle and see how its processes are impacted by changes with minimal investment.
Ensuring accessibility
Simulation technology is a boon for the electronics industry, but it comes with stipulations. For data-driven sustainability solutions to be impactful in the electronics industry, scalability and flexibility are paramount. Software solutions should prioritize ease of use to encourage widespread adoption and expedite successful implementation.
Interoperability and modularity are also essential to guarantee flexibility. They ensure that each employee has access to the data they need and that the solution can be composed to address specific needs across the value chain. Streamlined access to applications democratizes data which in turn breaks down data silos for more innovative products.
Opening access to technology throughout the organization motivates collaboration between teams, accelerating the adoption of new technologies that are helping the semiconductors industry advance. Fluid collaboration between disciplines will not only help businesses adopt green technology, but advanced processes such as additive manufacturing and accurate thermodynamic requirements for heat sinks.
Thinking outside the organization
Ultimately, sustainability is a systemic objective. Truly going green requires semiconductor manufacturers to analyze outside of their factories and take the supply chain into consideration. The industry is unique in that it has a comparatively broad and intricate supply chain compared to other industries.
To tackle sustainability, companies must widen their intelligence ecosystem to include other organizations within their supply chain. Suppliers must have similar aspirations while being willing to be transparent with their data. With access to data in the product’s complete ecosystem, organizations can visualize the entire value chain, allowing them to find the areas with the most negative impact.
Collaborating towards the future
Sustainability is no longer just risk mitigation. Companies that align their digital strategies with sustainability in mind are set to gain a competitive edge. To reach their environmental goals, organizations need to amplify their decision-making capabilities, which in turn will help them leverage technologies that prioritize connectivity and the open sharing of data.
Here at Siemens, we believe that sustainability is a collective goal built on trust, transparency, and teamwork. We have an extensive library of digital tools that can help your organization liberate its data securely and efficiently.
Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens’ software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering and manufacturing processes to turn today’s ideas into the sustainable products of the future. From chips to entire systems, from product to process, across all industries. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Accelerating transformation.
