Quantenna’s Success Story with yieldWerx
Quantenna, now onsemi, a leading provider of high-performance Wi-Fi solutions, aimed to enhance their operational efficiency and maximize productivity. Their search led them to yieldWerx, a platform designed to streamline data analysis, improve equipment uptime, and optimize manufacturing processes.
Baqar Tabrez, the engineering team lead, championed the implementation of yieldWerx and oversaw its successful integration within Quantenna's operations.
Unlocking New Horizons
Quantenna's engineering team faced the challenge of spending hours analyzing a single set of data before yieldWerx.
Baqar Tabrez highlights the significant improvement:
Before using the tool, it took an engineer around 4 hours to analyze one set of data. With the tool, the same engineer can analyze 4 sets of data in the same amount of time.
This remarkable increase in efficiency led to a 6-10x boost in engineering productivity.
Reliability for Uninterrupted Growth
Equipment downtime plagued Quantenna's productivity in the past. However, yieldWerx's real-time alert system transformed their equipment management approach.
Baqar Tabrez notes the impact:
The tool alerts the engineer when equipment & test parameters are drifting out of spec, allowing them to quickly address the process and yield issues and prevent equipment downtime AND/OR significant yield loss.
This resulted in a notable 10% increase in equipment uptime, early fault detection, and effective identification of issues.
From Potential to Proficiency
Quantenna aimed to deliver exceptional yield and optimize their manufacturing processes. yieldWerx provided invaluable insights into yield limiters, empowering Quantenna's team to pursue statistical data mining rapidly. As Baqar Tabrez explains,
yieldWerx was able to provide insights into the root causes of yield limiters and pursue statistical data mining quickly by exporting summary context with plug-ins to JMP, allowing the Process Engineer to make targeted improvements to the manufacturing process.
The outcomes were remarkable, with yield improvements of over 60% through Statistical Process Controls implementation, enhanced resource utilization, and accelerated production ramp-up.
Making Every Dollar Count
Quantenna's adoption of yieldWerx brought substantial cost savings and a rapid return on investment. They saved over $1 million on hardware and equipment investments.
Baqar Tabrez emphasizes that the cost-effectiveness of yieldWerx being 15% cheaper than competitors. The platform's robust reporting and analysis capabilities, flexible yield calculation options, and streamlined processes resulted in significant cost savings, achieving an ROI in months rather than years.
| Impact | Achivements |
|---|---|
| Faster data analysis and Improved efficiency | 6-10x increase in engineering productivity |
| Enhanced productivity and cost savings | 10% increase in equipment uptime |
| Significant productivity enhancements | Yield improvement over 60% through SPC implementation |
| Substantial cost savings and ROI | Savings of over $1 million on hardware investments |
| Cost-effective solution for semiconductor yield | yieldWerx 15% cheaper than competitors |
The Path to Success
Quantenna's partnership with yieldWerx has brought about remarkable transformations in their operations. With the guidance of the Quantenna teams, yieldWerx has propelled Quantenna to new heights of productivity, efficiency, and cost savings. The platform's integration has resulted in a significant increase in engineering productivity, a reduction in equipment downtime, and a substantial improvement in yield.
Through yieldWerx, Quantenna achieved notable cost savings, surpassing $1 million on hardware investments. This successful collaboration solidifies yieldWerx's impact in the semiconductor industry, showcasing its ability to drive success through enhanced productivity, streamlined processes, and tangible financial benefits.
Aftkhar Aslam, yieldWerx’s CEO commented about the engagement with Quantenna
“yieldWerx prides themselves on the level of automation that we bring to our customers. We want to be able to cut out all the human glue and logic that Quantenna engineers had to painstakingly execute every time they wanted to monitor their data. Data seamlessly was loaded into yieldWerx, and yieldWerx monitored the data letting Quantenna engineers know well ahead of time that they had yield and process issues and provided enough time for them to react, perform RCA and execute changes that impacted WIP Lots. Product & Test Equipment engineers focus on resolving the issues rapidly vs looking for a needle in haystack.”
