Fabless Manufacturing Solution

Fabless manufacturing transpires when a company does not manufacture its own silicon wafers but concentrates on the design and development of semiconductor chips. Manufacturers of semiconductors can either build and run their own manufacturing plants or design chips that are manufactured by someone else. In short, fabless companies outsource the production of silicon wafers and focus on the design and development of their own products. The semiconductor industry has migrated to fabless manufacturing as the norm for all but the largest providers, allowing greater innovation as well as accelerated time to market. As a result, this sector has prospered as a whole, propelled by innovation and supported by the increased efficiencies that outsourced manufacturing imparts.

Despite this picture of super fast development, fabless manufacturing units continue to face a number of business challenges, key of which are:

• Lack of visibility into the global supply chain
• Lack of data integration with suppliers
• Lack of process traceability
• Manufacturing process automation
• Inability to manage lead times in the absence of process automation
• Non availability of custom built workbench with additional business enhancements in the standard Demand-to-Build cycle
• Inability to track the lot number generated by OSP vendors throughout the distributed supply chain (a typical fabless environment requirement)
• Inability to track Wafer IDs throughout the distributed supply chain (another typical fabless environment requirement)
• Lack of operational efficiency

HCL presents a solution that is able to tackle these challenges. Designed specifically for fabless semiconductor companies, HCL's solution brings visibility and cohesiveness to business, from operations to sales and finance. It enables companies collaborate seamlessly with business partners, exchanging accurate information in real time while integrating the existing financial system, databases and other IT infrastructure to give companies a complete picture of their operations resulting in improved decision-making. HCL's fabless manufacturing solution is flexible and fully integrates into a company's existing environment. It is highly collaborative, provides various hosting options and enables rapid deployment to production.

• Enhanced fabless manufacturing process
• Enhanced process traceability into suppliers manufacturing facilities
• Enhanced validation rules which allow correct data to flow into the system
• Seamless integration of data flow between fabless manufacturers and suppliers
• Enhanced error handling functionalities
• Enhanced KPI reports
• Manufacturing process automation (in Oracle Applications)
• 90% plus man-hours reduction in manual entry of transactions
• Over 50% reductions in manufacturing lead time
• Enhanced Business performance and higher profits

Key Result: Process automation that enhances product traceability while enabling seamless data flow integration between fabless manufacturer and suppliers, resulting in a 90% reduction in data entry / data validation effort and a 50% reduction in manufacturing lead time.