IBM SiView Standard

Modernize your global semiconductor manufacturing to be more intelligent and advanced with IndustryView for Semi-Conductor Standard (SiView Standard)

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Elevating semiconductor manufacturing

Transform and modernize your semiconductor manufacturing with with IndustryView for Semi-Conductor Standard (SiView Standard), providing advanced scalability, and integration.

Transform your MESs

Your manufacturing execution systems (MESs) and processes, and improve supply chain management through a unified system.

Competitive edge

SiView Standard can provide a competitive edge with a fully automated, single wafer control and build a line to handle multiple lots in a carrier.

Improve your strategic sourcing

SiView Standard improves your strategic sourcing, collaboration and enterprise resource planning to support manufacturing processes. 

Integrate with your enterprise systems

Use economies of scale and respond quicker to market changes with tighter supply chain and manufacturing linkages.

Key Features

Material Manager (MM)

MM embeds over 400 rich business logic elements to manage objects in wafer, lot, FOUP and equipment, with real-time control and tracking of WIP, product, job and process. It supports 16 operation modes from completely offline, manual to fully automated, high volume production. 

Sense and Respond (SaR)

SaR allows users to create workflows to detect business events in existing systems (for example. MM), run business rules and respond to factory resources in real‐time to increases manufacturing utilization and efficiency. 

Advanced Process Control (APC)

APC allows personnel from engineering, science and economics to work on process control models quickly and effectively, and is pre-integrated with MM/DCS, supports Java/BPEL for business logic implementation, and can adpot externally developed math models (e.g., MATLAB) as a library. 

High Availability Scalability (HAS)

HAS supports clustering of CorbaServer processes (e.g., MM servers), automatically detects and recovers process failure and provides the flexibility of extension. Under HAS configuration, application changes for fixes and enhancement can be applied without impacting production activities.

Machine Supervisory Program (tMSP)

tMSP is a SiView Standard offering for manufacturing tool control application, which controls communications between a piece of equipment and the MES. It runs on an event-driven, service oriented, multithreaded logic engine and uses plug-ins to support business logic, and provides a collection of ready to use modules supporting many common communication protocols.

Production Dynamic Simulator (PDS)

PDS is a discrete event simulator to predict detailed lot movements, tool utilization and snapshot of work in progress lots in a semiconductor factory. It provides a out-of-box high-speed simulation feature that provides information necessary for decision making in continuous improvement of factory operation such like capacity planning, WIP balancing, throughput increase, and lead-time reduction.

Real-Time Dispatching (RTD)

RTD is pre-integrated with SiView MES and provides an intelligent decision-making experience in response to ever-changing conditions in the factory. Provided through a browser-based, drag-and-drop rule editor, RTD enables users to create and define business/operation rules with little programming skill.

Statistical Process Control (SPC)

 SPC helps to forecast defect occurrence, improve yield through real-time monitoring on process equipment data trends.

Specification Manager (SM)

SM provides the build-time specification management functions to create and define operations. Based on SEMATECH CIM Framework, it supports 70+ classes to create and define semiconductor manufacturing scenarios with flexible version control, access control and archive solutions.

XM and RXM

XM (FOUP transport) and RXM (Reticle transport), provide an MTSC interface to manage FOUP and reticle transport on the manufacturing floor. They support the SEMI Equipment Communication Standard (SECS), High-Speed SECS Message Service (HSMS), and the Generic Model for Communications and Control of manufacturing Equipment (GEM).

Use cases

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Proven MES with fab operation scenarios for full automation

SiView Standard has about 200 ready-to-use fab operation scenarios including interaction with equipment, transportation system and applications, documented as MRM (Manufacturing Reference Model). This speeds up the realization of maximum benefits.

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Industry standard compliance (equipment, MCS integration)

SiView Standard keeps being in compliance with SEMI Standard (GEM300, IF-A, SLM etc.). SiView Standard also has standard integration with major MCS vendors (Daifuku, Murata) as defacto standard.

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High Availability and Scalability

SiView Standard achieved more than 1,300 days of nonstop operation.

The HAS feature supports nonstop operation and scalability to handle tremendous amounts of transactions at “Giga-Fabs” (or at a "Giga-Fab").

HAS: High Availability and Scalability feature

AAS: Always Available System

SiView Stabdard enhancement diagram
Continuous enhancement to meet requirements

IBM® has continued investment for SiView Standard enhancements to keep the solution valuable. Customers’ requirements from our annual user survey and our SiView standard user conference are reflected in the product roadmap.

SiView Standard enhancement diagram. Enterprise System IBM Offerings
Fullscope integration in full automation mode

SiView Standard has full scope integration service experience with third-party software.

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Delivery excellence with total worldwide system support

SiView Standard delivery team has achieved 100% successful on-time delivery records. SiView Standard delivery team has more than 200 people worldwide.
IBM can provide one team delivery and support of hardware, software, infrastructure and application.

IBM SiView Standard graph
Proven MES with fab operation scenarios for full automation

SiView Standard has about 200 ready-to-use fab operation scenarios including interaction with equipment, transportation system and applications, documented as MRM (Manufacturing Reference Model). This speeds up the realization of maximum benefits.

Overhead view of a person pressing a screen
Industry standard compliance (equipment, MCS integration)

SiView Standard keeps being in compliance with SEMI Standard (GEM300, IF-A, SLM etc.). SiView Standard also has standard integration with major MCS vendors (Daifuku, Murata) as defacto standard.

SiView Standard diagram
High Availability and Scalability

SiView Standard achieved more than 1,300 days of nonstop operation.

The HAS feature supports nonstop operation and scalability to handle tremendous amounts of transactions at “Giga-Fabs” (or at a "Giga-Fab").

HAS: High Availability and Scalability feature

AAS: Always Available System

SiView Stabdard enhancement diagram
Continuous enhancement to meet requirements

IBM® has continued investment for SiView Standard enhancements to keep the solution valuable. Customers’ requirements from our annual user survey and our SiView standard user conference are reflected in the product roadmap.

SiView Standard enhancement diagram. Enterprise System IBM Offerings
Fullscope integration in full automation mode

SiView Standard has full scope integration service experience with third-party software.

A person wearing glasses reflecting a screen
Delivery excellence with total worldwide system support

SiView Standard delivery team has achieved 100% successful on-time delivery records. SiView Standard delivery team has more than 200 people worldwide.
IBM can provide one team delivery and support of hardware, software, infrastructure and application.

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