MEMS to Market: Ingredients for Success

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Designing next-generation sensor-based systems like those found in wearables, IoT and medical devices poses many challenges. MEMS and sensor design is challenging due to the use of unique materials, fabrication processes and packaging. The age of COVID has necessitated designers working remotely and collaborating over time zones. These factors have led to a gap in design, modeling and simulation capability for creating the billions of interconnected sensors required by future applications.

This webinar discusses MEMS and sensor design challenges and how Digital Twins can be used for facilitating the design of sensor-based products. The talk will describe how Digital Twins may be applied in many phases of the design process from materials design optimization all the way to artificial intelligence algorithm training and virtual product testing. Examples will be given illustrating the use of Digital Twins to create a Digital Factory to increase sensor manufacturing yield and how Digital Twins are being used in sensor-based medical product design.

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Drawing on our experience in successfully executing more than 400 MEMS development projects at AMFitzgerald, we will present a practical overview on navigating the technical and business challenges of MEMS product development. We will describe helpful strategies and tactics discussed in our new book, MEMS Product Development: From Concept to Commercialization, that when practiced diligently, can shorten development timelines, help avoid common pitfalls, and improve the odds of success, especially when resources are limited. We illuminate what it really takes to develop a novel MEMS product so that innovators, designers, entrepreneurs, product managers, investors, and executives may properly prepare their companies to succeed.

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MEMS-based devices are experiencing significant market expansion in consumer, industrial, medical and automotive applications.  With the expansion in the marketplace, there is a growing focus on the importance and unique challenges of MEMS reliability.  This talk will explore MEMS reliability from concept and application-based customer requirements, through design and development processes with a demonstration of meeting industry reliability standards, similar to other semiconductor products.  We also will consider MEMS reliability throughout semiconductor and customer manufacturing processes.  In some cases, it has been found that standard manufacturing handling can result in environments for MEMS devices that are more strenuous than the final application.  Through a better understanding of the factors impacting MEMS reliability, proper alignment of development and industrialization processes can help all of us introduce robust MEMS products into the market.