Austin, TX. Optimal+ today announced the availability of Release 6.5 of its flagship software. This latest release includes an extension of the company’s Global Ops solution to serve the needs of electronics manufacturing operations. Global Ops for Electronics is the foundation of a comprehensive platform for electronics companies developing end-market products (smartphones, networking servers, data servers, or automotive systems such as ADAS or car-to-X systems) to collect, analyze, and act on manufacturing and in-use data across a distributed supply chain.
The company is highlighting the new release at NIWeek.
In a world where smart electronics are becoming a critical component of every product we use, it is becoming essential to be able to enhance, certify, and monitor the quality of electronics and ICs for the lifetime of those products, the company said. Global Ops for Electronics enables electronics OEMs to operationally manage the delivery of high-quality, more reliable and affordable electronics products to market. Optimal+ said the platform is the industry’s first solution to provide end-to-end data collection, data governance, and advanced analytics capabilities that enable companies to improve their operational performance and perform risk management for their entire value chain.
“Modern electronics products are manufactured using a very broad and customized range of technologies. A typical electronics company may use hundreds of customized functional test systems to test products,” said Dan Glotter, founder and CEO of Optimal+. “Companies need to leverage the massive amount of data they are generating from these test systems to improve product quality and lower cost.”
He added that Global Ops for Electronics is the first product in the electronics industry to provide an end-to-end solution that encompasses manufacturing data collection and governance, supports 24/7 automated rules analytics to monitor operations, and provide the ability to act on any result in real-time, which increases quality, lowers production costs and improves efficiency for the entire global supply chain.
As an early adopter of Optimal+ solutions for its semiconductor manufacturing operations, NVIDIA has collaborated with Optimal+ on the design of the new Global Ops for Electronics solution.
“NVIDIA creates products, services, and software for the virtual reality, artificial intelligence, professional visualization, and automotive markets,” said Keith Katcher, vice president of operations engineering at NVIDIA. “Global Ops for Electronics provides our product teams with complete visibility into our PCB and systems manufacturing processes. It enables us to rapidly identify and respond to the source of any issue, down to an operation, facility, line, or station.”
In addition to Global Ops for Electronics, release 6.5 also includes numerous enhancements to the company’s semiconductor solutions including manufacturing execution system (MES) tracking, support for “R” within the Sequoia scripting environment, and the ability to perform multivariate analysis during part average test (PAT), which enables users to rapidly identify and remove suspect devices from good populations, reducing future RMAs.
Big data analytics is now available across all semiconductor solutions, which allows correlations and statistical analysis across all unit level data in any application. For customers using the NPI for Semiconductor Characterization solution, the new limits application provides analytic capabilities within a given analysis or in a cross operational mode with results automatically populating bi-variate outlier detection analysis.
In addition, Optimal+ announced the appointment of Shykeh Gordon as vice president and general manager of its new Electronics Business Unit. Gordon, an electronics industry veteran, will work closely with electronics OEMs to help them achieve a higher level of supply chain transparency and end-market product quality through the use of the Optimal+ Electronics Operations Platform.
“There is an enormous amount of electronics growth forecasted for individuals and corporations alike, and it will significantly impact every aspect of daily life. This deep immersion and proliferation of electronics technology heightens the need for electronics OEMs to continually deliver safer and reliable end-user products to the market,” said Gordon. “The company has already transformed product quality for the semiconductor industry by providing full supply chain visibility and is the only provider positioned to extend this end-to-end capability to electronics OEMs. I am thrilled to be part of the Optimal+ team at this exciting and dynamic time in the industry.”
