Mr. Alan Weber
Vice President, New Product Innovations, Cimetrix Incorporated

Biography

Alan Weber is currently the Vice President, New Product Innovations for Cimetrix Incorporated. Previously he served on the Board of Directors for eight years before joining the company as a full-time employee in 2011.

Alan has been a part of the semiconductor and manufacturing automation industries for over 40 years. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.

Experience

Semiconductor design automation
Equipment and factory control system architectures
Advanced Process Control (APC) and other key manufacturing applications
SEMI Information and Control standards, especially GEM300 and EDA/Interface A
Semiconductor manufacturing technology

Abstract

  •  Modern semiconductor factories must leverage multiple equipment communications standards to support the full range of command, control, and analysis functions required for production operations
  •  Factory stakeholders expect a consistent user experience for equipment data collection regardless of the underlying technology
  •  The latest factory-side equipment data collection and management systems directly implement all the SECS, GEM300, and EDA/Interface A SEMI Standards on an integrated platform
  •  Extensibility to support emerging IoT (Internet of Things) protocols is also a fundamental requirement
  •  This presentation highlights the scope, features, system architecture, and potential applications of such an integrated platform