Vishay Extends Critical Manufacturing MES to Semiconductor Business

April, 30, 2024, PORTO, Portugal – Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH), a number one international producer of discrete semiconductors and passive digital parts, has prolonged its roll out of Critical Manufacturing’s MES from its preliminary web site within the USA in 2019 to now embody Vishay’s semiconductor manufacturing services. On the heels of a worldwide contract that can set up the Critical Manufacturing software program in additional than 30 crops in Vishay’s passive parts enterprise, the brand new settlement will prolong it additionally to Vishay’s semiconductor enterprise, starting with the Voecklabruck, plant in higher Austria.

Vishay Intertechnology has one of many world’s largest portfolios of semiconductors, together with small, medium and high-power diodes and thyristors. Over the previous 20 years, the corporate has skilled speedy progress, largely by strategic acquisitions. It now has factories in additional than 50 international areas and is standardizing and consolidating manufacturing operations throughout these areas.

As Bernd Fankhauser, Director Operations Fab Voecklabruck, describes the state of affairs: “Our Legacy MES system is nearing the top of its lifecycle. We want an answer that not solely replaces all the present performance but in addition offers a platform to help future digital transformation initiatives. This might embody tighter integration with manufacturing gear, real-time materials traceability, workforce certification monitoring, real-time high quality monitoring and predictive upkeep.”

As with the MES implementation at its passive parts fabs, the truth that Critical Manufacturing couldn’t solely change the legacy MES performance but in addition had a full menu of confirmed modules to help superior manufacturing operations, was a serious promoting level.

In the primary part of the semiconductor migration, Vishay will implement core MES modules to standardize batch and lot monitoring and tracing of all manufacturing steps, together with WIP monitoring, grasp information, gear monitoring, alarm, and upkeep administration, in addition to a sophisticated interfacing to the SAP ERP system. Phase one may also present the digital infrastructure for future implementation of superior digital performance resembling machine integration, labor administration and SPC-guided high quality management.

Vishay’s Vice President VP for MES and Manufacturing Process Automation Dr. Thomas Amrein feedback, “The passives parts MES roll out proved that Critical Manufacturing was completely the appropriate MES associate for us. We anticipate that their standardized strategy — from useful modules down to pre-made programming objects — will scale back prices not solely on the implementation part but in addition throughout operation, serving to us optimize return on all manufacturing and automation belongings.”

Tom Bednarz, Sales Manager for Tech Europe at Critical Manufacturing provides: “Critical Manufacturing MES is the perfect resolution for corporations which are rising by acquisition, like Vishay. They are poised to change into one of many largest and most digitally built-in manufacturing operations on the earth. As our collaboration continues, I’m fairly positive that we are going to set new requirements for operational excellence, agility, and innovation in electronics manufacturing.”

Vishay will provoke the semiconductor migration to Critical Manufacturing MES within the Voecklabruck plant with the potential for additional increasing its functionalities worldwide to different manufacturing areas, each, front- and backend crops.

About Critical Manufacturing

Critical Manufacturing, chief within the Gartner Magic Quadrant and a subsidiary of ASMPT, offers probably the most trendy, versatile and configurable manufacturing execution system (MES) accessible. Critical Manufacturing MES helps producers keep forward of stringent product traceability and compliance necessities, scale back danger with inherent closed-loop high quality, combine seamlessly with enterprise methods and manufacturing unit automation, and supply deep intelligence and visibility of world manufacturing operations.

As a outcome, our clients are Industry 4.0 prepared. They can compete successfully and profitably by simply adapting their operations to modifications in demand, alternative, or necessities, wherever, at any time. For extra data, go to www.criticalmanufacturing.com

About ASMPT

ASMPT (HKEX inventory code: 0522) is a number one international provider of {hardware} and software program options for the manufacture of semiconductors and electronics. Headquartered in Singapore, ASMPT’s choices embody the semiconductor meeting & packaging, and SMT (floor mount expertise) industries, starting from wafer deposition to the varied options that arrange, assemble and package deal delicate digital parts into an enormous vary of end-user gadgets, which embody electronics, cell communications, computing, automotive, industrial and LED (shows). ASMPT companions with clients very carefully, with steady funding in R&D serving to to present cost-effective, industry-shaping options that obtain increased productiveness, higher reliability and enhanced high quality.

ASMPT is among the constituent shares of the Hang Seng Composite MidCap Index underneath the Hang Seng Composite Size Indexes, the Hang Seng Composite Information Technology Industry Index underneath Hang Seng Composite Industry Indexes and the Hang Seng HK 35 Index.