With the advent of highly automated semiconductor wafer production facilities, there is a pressing trend to broaden the scope of standard automation to incorporate improved decision capabilities with ...

Continue reading to explore the role of automation in semiconductor manufacturing, as well as its challenges, advantages, and future directions. Like in many industries, automation came in ...

This new high-capacity system pushes the boundaries of automated precision cleaning, allowing manufacturers to clean large batches of parts more consistently and efficiently than before.” — Doug ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Sviat Dulianinov The AI ...

The Semiconductor Assembly Test Automation and Standardization Research Association (SATAS), a consortium of over 20 Japanese companies, has secured up to JPY20 billion (US$130 million) in subsidies ...

Figure 1. Transfer of current manually performed drilling processes at CFRP vertical tail planes (VTPs) to mobile cobots. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM At its 4,500-square-meter research ...

While about 80% of manufacturers either use automation or plan to apply it to their operations, there are still a significant number of holdouts. McKinsey & Company notes that one of the major reasons ...

Software automation in PCB assembly. Advantages and disadvantages of software automation in PCB assembly. The PCB assembly (PCBA) process is becoming more complex with evolving market trends such as ...