Innovation Blog Series: Oracle Shop Floor Management

With the rapid growth of the internet and voice/data communications, supply chains across all industries are under significant pressure. In addition to the typical challenges relating to shorter product life cycles, complex product designs and global supply chains, manufacturers require real-time shop floor information to improve customer service and to appropriate corrective actions. One of the most critical aspects of accurate planning is data accuracy. Real-time data is vital for managing yields and dynamic routings and for the support of nonstandard jobs. These functions are critical for the success of an organization’s supply planning process.

Organizations must ensure that they have the right information, in the right place, at the right time, and at the right cost. The semiconductor industry is no exception, and in fact, given the rigorous nature of the industry and pressure from executives to tighten cost structures and reduce their bottom line, it is more important now than ever to ensure efficient, yet agile business processes. These significant changes and challenges are redefining the way manufacturing operations are managed and making it necessary to ensure manufacturing systems can support the flexibility needed to thrive.

Save time and money with Inspirage’s Oracle Shop Floor Management (OSFM) solution

Inspirage’s Oracle Shop Floor Management (OSFM) solution for the semiconductor industry specifically addresses the need for managing and integrating the bills of materials (BOM) to ensure accurate resource requirements and the correct yield. Features of this solution include:

Managing Process Yield for Planned Order Start Quantities

Inspirage’s Oracle Shop Floor Management (OSFM) plug-in solution provides a simple approach to managing yields across the BOM levels by using reverse cumulative yield as the starting point. The start numbers are generated at all levels of the BOM using the net quantity and the yield of the finished item, semi-finished item, or component modeling them as an item attribute. This process also ensures resource requirements are generated accurately based on the correct yield which is extremely critical for some high tech/semiconductor customers.

Managing Nettable Quantity Based on Process Step of Lot Based Job

The solution also has capabilities for calculating and loading correct start quantities based on the current process step, yield, and quantity in the queue. This is beneficial to planning by having an accurate picture of the nettable quantity based. The solution goes one step further by calculating the resource requirements for the lot-based job based on the current and future process steps.

Managing Non-Standard Jobs

Non-standard jobs are very commonly used to manage tasks that do not adhere to the standard process. The Inspirage OSFM solution caters to this requirement by calculating the correct net/ start quantities for non-standard jobs based on the user entered yields instead of standard yields.

Resource and Component Requirements for Lot Based Job

Additional benefits of our plug-and-play solution include the ability to calculate the components and resource requirements based on the routing of the primary path for unreleased jobs and to calculate the components and resource requirements of future operations based on routing primary path for released jobs.
 

 

Things to consider before implementing Inspirage OFSM

The Inspirage OFSM solution was developed to boost and modernize your existing systems, however, it is important to address some key considerations before implementing this solution:

• Accuracy of master data
  To optimize and utilize this solution for a competitive advantage, it is important to ensure the consistency and accuracy of your master data.
• Quantification of business rules
  To ensure that your systems are agile and working efficiently, your business rules should align and tie in with the business side of your company.

Stay competitive with a digitally connected enterprise

To stay competitive in today’s environment, we understand how important it is for semiconductor manufacturers to digitally connect their enterprise. By integrating enterprise-wide, manufacturers can drill down to every aspect of the business, specifically within the supply chain, and ensure efficient operations, increased agility, and global visibility. Inspirage’s Oracle Shop Floor Management solution is a powerful tool for optimizing and driving growth. Additionally, our solution with save your company time and money by automating the tasks of validating the yield and netting quantity, resource, and component usage.

In addition to this solution, Inspirage has created a library of innovative PaaS solutions. It is possible that we have already built a solution to meet your business needs. If we don’t already have a prebuilt solution to address your challenges, we can customize something to fit. We’ll do the work behind the scenes, so you can focus on growing your business. Please visit the Oracle Cloud Marketplace to see a complete listing of Inspirage Solutions and contact us with any questions or to schedule a demo.