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Accelerating Sustainability With Smart Manufacturing


By Brian J. Coppa, Amit Srivastava, Mark da Silva, and Anshu Bahadur The SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative is a global effort focused on leveraging the most advanced technology to enhance productivity of electronics manufacturing facilities. Among the key technology advances this group seeks to promote is the value of implementing Industry 4.0/5.0 technology to deliver increased return-o... » read more

Integrating Digital Twins In Semiconductor Operations


By Mark da Silva, Nishita Rao and Karim Somani Chipmakers must adopt transformative technologies including Digital Twins (DT) to keep pace with unprecedented global semiconductor industry growth that is expected to drive its total market value to $1 trillion[1] as soon as 2030. Leveraging predictive modeling and other efficiency-enhancing innovations, DTs promise to optimize semiconductor d... » read more