Fab automation solution

04/01/2003

Your January editorial, "The rocky road to 300mm automated factories," hit the nail on the head with respect to the struggles that the semiconductor industry faces for its data management, consolidation, analysis, and control needs.

The competitive fab in today's environment needs real-time execution of production decisions. To enable this, a methodology must be put in place that can handle the load of thousands of signals reported every second by hundreds of tools.

Umetrics is one of the "small companies with good ideas" that has a solution capable of handling this data. Using multivariate software and methods, real-time monitoring of these tools is possible. In fact, we hosted the recent AEC/APC workshop highlighting work we have done with IBM.

Svante Wold,
CEO, Umetrics Inc.
Chris Ambrozic,
sales & marketing North America, Umetrics Inc.
ph 973/492-8355, www.umetrics.com