yieldWerx helps Silicon Image save Millions – yieldWerx helped Silicon Image shorten time to entitled yields across their supply chain, optimizing valuable test time, enhancing equipment throughput and giving instant insight into their global manufacturing supply chain, resulting in significant improvement in operational performance, optimizing and better understanding of systematic issue that resulted in significant savings for the company.
Silicon Image is a leading provider of multimedia connectivity solutions and services for mobile, consumer electronics and PC markets. The company develops market-leading technologies and industry standards that deliver connectivity across a wide array of devices in the home, office and on the go. The company sells its semiconductor and ntellectual property core products to a customer base that includes global brands in mobile, CE and PC markets. Silicon Image's advanced connectivity solutions are deployed in mobile phones, tablets, DTVs, Blu-ray Disc™ players, audio-video receivers, digital cameras, as well as desktop and notebooks.
Silicon Image’s previous YMS practice was to first process the raw data in Excel and then review. This used to take them almost a week to track down simple tasks such as ATE HW related dependencies to address the root cause of yield loss. The team after spending several days on manual data aggregation and reviews could then inform the test floor about the issue - but by that time, millions of parts had been tested and shipped out. The previous tool did not give them one single-source point of access to get all their data from various locations of their fragmented supply chain. It took 2-3 days of their engineering time just to collect the data. Every engineering function had its own set of data and analysis, resulting in enterprise wide discrepancies and a clear lag in decision making within the Product Engineering organization
“We totally rely on yieldWerx to drive our foundry, assembly and test vendors about yield issues that we spot in production. It used to take our Product Engi-neering team about 4 weeks to prepare, analyze and summarize the data from a quarterly production run, and then another 2-3 weeks to discuss with our fab, assembly and test house sub cons for DOEs. This now takes us just a few hours to prepare the same report with yieldWerx, and is accepted by our fab, assembly and test house sub cons, putting us on track to resolve yield issues and ramp our yield much faster. This translates into tremendous financial gains for the company and engineering efficiency for us.”, said Product Engineering Manager, Silicon Image.
Silicon Image is shipping 200+ million parts of significant yield dependencies, and had to analyze which fabs and test houses were yielding better and which were not. Previously with their old solution they would have to dump data in an access database, and then write a script to make the lot genealogy, which would take several days to do the lot traceability detection alone. After adopting yieldWerx, it now takes only a few minutes to identify and isolate yield excursions within the manufacturing process, saving up to 10x in terms of engineering time and provides an enterprise wide view of the test results for quick response and resolution.
About yieldWerx:
yieldWerx provides the semiconductor industry with enterprise wide test and engineering data management solutions that increase yield and reduce time to market. yieldWerx enables product and test engineers to gain better visibility of their test data, which is essential for intelligent decision-making, directly impacting yield and profitability. yieldWerx has hundreds of users at fabless semiconductor companies, IDMs, and OSATs across the world, who use our software to improve productivity, reduce defects, and improve device yields. Based in Dallas, Texas, yieldWerx maintains sales and support operations worldwide.
Company contacts:
yieldWerx:
Omar M. Malik
Chief Operating Officer
omar.malik@yieldwerx.com
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