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Challenges Solutions
• Requires a secure solution that can process Provides security and reliability as there is no data transfer
KVM information and correctly identify between the manufacturing machines and the KVM over IP
production information feedback
Provides APIs for software integration applications while
• Needs to integrate with MES and to facilitate OCR solution directly captures the device display screen data
data collection for analysis and collects the data for analysis
• How to replace human operation Provides APIs for HMI operation by software program for
automated actions
• No impact to the production line utilization
Hardware architecture does not impact or reduce system
performance of the production line machines
KN4116A CS231 API
16-Port Cat 5 KVM over IP Switch with Virtual Media USB VGA Computer Sharing Device
API
02 API for Automation
and Data Collection
Automated Semiconductor
Production Line, Taiwan
API for Automation and Data Collection
Production line automation faces many challenges, from data collection and checking data accuracy, to recipe automation and
error detection. In many cases, it is not only difficult to identify production information feedback, but also to assess the type of
system warning, while the manual selection of recipes are prone to human error. Before OCR automation, service operations had
to be performed manually by operators who needed to suit up and enter the fab, and errors had to be confirmed by manual
inspection. These situations require solutions that allow machine information data to be effectively identified in an automated
process for analysis to be carried out, and errors to be processed automatically and immediately, while also improving equipment
utilization rates and preventing human operation error.
Automated Semiconductor Production Line, Taiwan
A manufacturer wanted to install a new automated control solution that would integrate with its production line MES and perform
checks and corrections for tests, emergency handling, automatic run recipes, data collection, and keep system logs. Its running
production equipment does not support open Application Program Interfaces (APIs), while an installed software would use too
much of the machine’s system resources and impact utilization rate. Even machine vendors do not provide this kind of upgrade.
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