Dominic is STMicroelectronics Singapore SG6&8 Central Maintenance Manager and PTC Coordinator, and has held this position since 2014.
In his current post, the focus is on operation support in hardware automation, equipment improvement, internal part services and support tool maintenance.
Dominic started in Semiconductor industrial more than 20 years ago and had worked in wafer foundry and MNC. He started as process engineer in wet metal etch and later progress to Dry Etch process engineering. He joins ST in 2011 as AMJ9 Etch Department Head, responsible for process engineering and equipment section.
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Case Study Presentation 3:
a) Integrating In-house Designed Sensors for a SMARTER Manufacturing Execution System
For a Legacy tool, high tech sensors and its function may not be easily available during that time. Hence, it is understandable many sensors critical functions are not installed to many legacy tools. To install new sensors now, one may incur high cost spending and encounter many difficult challenges to modify them. Moreover, in the market, these OEM sensors can be very expensive in price, and very complex to implement.
Using the in-house designed sensor, we can resolve and eliminate many of these installation challenges. It can be simple and easy to design and able to interface conveniently with the company FDC control system at a low cost. Most importantly, it can trigger a real time alert by the monitoring system to the end-user to react or plan preventive actions.
Benefits / Impact: Reduction of unnecessary tools down time, sustain very good product quality and Improve Engr productivity time in a Wafer Fab Manufacturing environment.
b) Connecting Legacy Equipment to a SMART FACTORY
Typical legacy tools are not well connected to factory CIM network, thus post operation quality risk and automation challenge for any smart factory vision. Use of one case study, we demonstrate hardware and software effort in connecting legacy tool. Other legacy and supporting tool examples will be shown as well.
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