Smart Manufacturing offerings

Solutions for OEMs and factories

Sometimes, you might require a comprehensive solution based on several of our products and services. For example, if you need to monitor the performance of all of your deployed equipment from anywhere in the world, you could use our global fleet management solution. It is based on multiple products and includes factory automation and remote equipment monitoring and control capabilities. It also feeds collected data to any analytics package so you can make informed decisions about things like predictive maintenance schedules and processing improvements.

Solutions for factories

Collect data from your manufacturing floor

• Characterize equipment in your factory
• Connect the factory: equipment, sensors, IIoT devices
• Collect data (e.g., processing data, events, alarms), organize, share, and store big data

Control equipment, processes and workflows, and monitor factory-wide performance

• Add station controllers, equipment automation, line controllers, and SCADA solutions to your factory
• Integrate a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for:
  • Performance monitoring
  • Recipe management
  • Lot management
  • SPC analysis
  • Unit traceability
  • Asset management
  • Configuration management
• Perform Advanced Process Control (APC)

Test equipment for factory acceptance

• Test factory automation
• Automation Capabilities Management (ACM)
• Test equipment performance
• Perform SEMI compliance testing

Solutions for equipment makers

Automate your equipment and collect meaningful data

• Connect equipment and IIoT devices to factory systems
• Collect, organize, and share data
• Perform SPC analysis and charting
• Feed the data into any analytics package for predictive decision-making and preventive maintenance
• Control equipment and sub-components
• Design and manage recipes
• Manage your software releases
• Get PLC expertise (consulting, design, programming) to support equipment automation
• Employ machine learning capabilities to predict job completion

Monitor performance of all your deployed equipment from anywhere

• Monitor, control, and collaborate on your deployed equipment remotely and securely
• Offer value-added services to your factory customers remotely
• Manage your fleet of equipment for predictive decision-making and performance optimization
• Remotely access the PTO Server from any smart device using PTO Web UI

Ensure quality and compliance

• Assess factory requirements to ensure equipment compliance
• Test your equipment before and after deployment to a factory, to ensure quick factory acceptance
• Perform SEMI compliance testing
• Consult with QA experts

PEER Group Professional Services

PEER Group Professional Services leverages our comprehensive suite of best-in-class software and combines it with extensive industry knowledge and expertise to deliver innovative, SEMI Standards compliant automation, connectivity, and testing solutions for the most demanding semiconductor OEMs and factories.

PEER Group’s highly experienced software development managers and specialized engineering teams lead customers through the entire development process. From pre-consultation, spec and design, and development to testing, integration, and ongoing support, our team works closely with customers to deliver high-quality, compliant solutions that meet their specific tool or factory automation requirements.

Equipment makers

Do you need to introduce equipment into the market quickly and cost-effectively? Read about PEER Group OEM Services.

Factories

Do you need to connect equipment into your factory, develop equipment interfaces (EI) or station controllers, or track products throughout your manufacturing floor? Read about PEER Group Factory Services.

Industries we serve

Most high-technology manufacturing has special characteristics which place particular demands on manufacturers. Our years of experience creating solutions for both factories and equipment makers in the semiconductor, electronics, and related industries ensures we have a deep understanding of the demands that you face.

Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?

• Your high-technology manufacturing facility requires a high degree of automation. The material must be kept clean at the micron or sub-micron level and the volume of parts produced is much too high for humans to achieve manually.
• Your complex equipment works in an early stage of the manufacturing process (e.g., substrate, wafer fab, thin-film glass) which is highly process-oriented, requiring large amounts of data for advanced process control.
• You are required to maintain your equipment in production through a solid preventive maintenance practice, ensuring uptime and improved operational results to provide optimal yield.

We build our factory automation software products and solutions to enable the sophisticated communications protocol needed to automate all of the material transport, recipe management, data collection, and process control requirements in these factories. And, because nearly all high-technology manufacturers have adopted the SEMI standards for equipment connectivity, we ensure our products support the appropriate standards.