Keysight Technologies use simulation-powered digital twin to increase ROI on capital expenditures
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- Industry
- Electronics manufacturing
- Location
- Santa Rosa, California, United States
- Goal
- Streamline the wafer fabrication procedures using simulation-powered digital twins
Achievements with Simul8
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Increased ROI on capital expenditures
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Streamlined priority structure across the production line
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Improved supplier agreements
The Challenge
The global chip shortage has accelerated the need for improved productivity on wafer production lines. For Keysight Technologies, a manufacturer of electronics test and measurement equipment and software, this presented an opportunity to meet increasing demands by enhancing its wafer fabrication procedures.
Its team of engineers turned to simulation to help them achieve process excellence, with a longer-term vision to build an operational simulation-powered digital twin fed by real-time data and living alongside the fabrication facility (or fab for short) for ongoing optimization.
The first phase of the project focused on wafer fabrication specifically, with phase two scheduled to include affiliated production lines with processes that are connected to wafer fabrication. The end result – a simulation-powered digital twin designed for ongoing optimization across the full production, from end-to-end.