Equipment Connectivity

The core competency of TPS is in networking and connectivity, regardless of the age and type of equipment or devices. Proprietary interfacing techniques allow legacy equipment to be networked for controls and data acquisition.

TPS has strong domain knowledge in semiconductor manufacturing process and equipment which allow us to provide cost-effective integration solutions for our customers.

TPS would like to harness these strengths to take the business to the next level by embarking on Industry 4.0. It is an enabler to talk to anything and everything for IoT (Internet of Things) and this is the prerequisite for Big Data collection and Data Analytics to collate and transform data into essential information.

Provide Integrated Solutions to customers – Consultant
Provide the Integration Services to customers – Service Provider
Our Equipment Connectivity solutions allow the capturing of equipment states automatically to reflect the latest status. All equipment states or sub-states defined by customers, regardless of the types of machines or models in Front-End Wafer Fab machines to Back-End machines from Assembly Front of Line, Wafer Sort/Final Test, Oven/Chamber/Freezer, End of Line & Final Packing operations.
TPS provides more than 1000 SECS/GEM licenses to OEM machine markers and Semiconductor Industries. We provide SECS/GEM consultancy, SECS/GEM training, SECS/GEM requirements, Buyoff, and implementation
TPS implemented more than 500 equipment connectivity solutions for old & legacy machines for recipe management, machine status, machine alarms, critical parameters, etc. depending on machine capability

Our SECS/GEM Solutions and Services

Provide machine SECS/GEM software solution to machine manufacturers
Provide innovative solutions to make non-SECS/GEM machines compatible with
SECS/GEM functions for data acquisition and control
Provide Host SECS/GEM (Cell Controller) software to connect multiple SECS/GEM machines into a cell group
Provide SECS/GEM Host Simulator testing

There are many manufacturers moving towards smart manufacturing requiring the automation of data collection. However, they are stuck with their legacy machines which don’t have a solution to connect them up for that purpose.

Hence, our team can provide equipment connectivity solutions for legacy machines regardless of machine operating system, interface types such as RS232/Parallel/Ethernet/ USB/Floppy Drive, or even without interfaces through our innovative solutions

We will do Preliminary Machine Assessment info gathering on-site visit to study the machine for us to provide the proposal & solutions.

Our Equipment Connectivity Solutions (Examples)

Our Software runtime license firmware
Selection Equipment Main (SEMI-E10) & Sub-state (SEMI-58) collection such as Productive, Standby, Unscheduled Downtime
Process Monitoring such as Temperature, Pressure, Flow rate, etc. by connecting to external devices
Must perform Corrective Action (CA) before equipment can continue to run (Option)
Recipe Upload & Download (Option)
Additional Information via Ethernet or GPIB or RS232 or etc. interface (Option)
SECS/GEM Interface (Option)
Interface to either TPS or Customer’s Application software such as OEE, EMS, etc. (To be discussed)
As one-point data entry support 1D/2D or RFID Scanner for badge ID, Lot information, Kit ID, Load board ID, etc (Option)
Other specific requirements (To be discussed)

Equipment Main Status

Green Tower Light – Productive
Yellow Tower Light – Standby
Red Tower Light – Unscheduled Downtime
Machine Start or Stop signals – Must perform Corrective Action (CA) before releasing the STOP signal (Option)

Option:

Addition machine information is available via Ethernet Port or RS232 or GPIB, etc.
Recipe upload and download
Data collection
Control machine, etc.
Connected to Application software via SECS/GEM or FTP or DLL or etc.