D-SIMCON Dynamic Capacity and Material Flow Performance (DCMF) Planner

Advanced Planning Solution for Dynamic Capacity Planning in Semiconductor Manufacturing

CHALLENGES

  • Complex causalities: Advanced modelling and analysis techniques are required to portray and manage often non-intuitive interdependencies between capacity and cycle time.
  • High-fidelity WIP flow simulations require data from multiple sources: Model generation, calibration and maintenance need to be highly automated.
  • Dynamic simulation is compute-intensive: High degree of parallelisation is required to enable a variety of application use cases.

Solution

  • D-SIMCON Dynamic Capacity and Material Flow Performance (DCMF) Planner is a powerful, simulation-based software solution to enable essential capacity planning and WIP flow optimisation use cases in Semiconductor Manufacturing where the interdependencies between fab capacity and cycle time are of importance.

Differentiators

  • Many Semiconductor Manurfacturing specific attributes can be portrayed.
    • High accuracy KPI forecasts possible.
  • Use-case based approach.

  • Supporting modules to generate, calibrate and maintain with high degree of automation the underlying simulation model.
    • Easy resolution of data inconsistencies.
    • Automatic model verification and data calibration.

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  • Unified Reporting Platform for both Performance Monitoring and KPI Forecasting with high granularity down to equipment, recipe, route level.
    • Easy identification of past and future issues in the production that need to be addressed.
  • Scalable on High Performance (Cloud compliant) computing infrastructure.
    • Analysis and optimisation can be carried out 10-100 times faster compared to conventional methods.

Benefits achieved

  • Production cycle time reduced by >20%.

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  • Identified and quantified measures enabling increase of wafer out capacity by up to 10%.

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CUSTOMER SUCCESSES

  • Deployed by semiconductor manufacturers in Singapore, Europe, and the USA for both 200mm and 300mm fabs.
  • Utilised by customers for sales target setting and capital investment assessment.