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Porting or Upgrading to ICE suite of products

OEMs and fabs list a number of reasons for switching to ICE suite of products. With their existing solutions, they experience one or more of the below listed issues:

  • Low throughput
  • Poor or no more product support
  • High costs
  • Product quality below par
  • Non-compliance to required SEMI standards

These in turn result in the OEMs unable to meet the milestones set by fabs and even their tool getting rejected during evaluation or fabs not receiving enough support for enhancements or upgrades.

NeST's ICE Suite of products for solar and semi conductor manufacturing automation solutions provides easy portability from any legacy solutions already used in factory or labs. With our industry proven solutions along with high level of expertise and cost-effective services, we can assure you that your system performs with same or more throughput after moving into ICE suite of products.

As the economy is struggling to come out of recession and semi conductor manufacturing industries still trying to be cost effective, ICE Suite of products are a best bet for a fast, easy, attractive and fab ready solution.

NeST offers a set of products and solutions along with industry proven processes and practices which makes upgrading to or moving or porting to a new platform easy and trouble free.

Platform Upgrade Plan (PUP)

Our Platform Upgrade Plan is well designed for complete lifecycle management of software upgradation process to be followed in providing new solutions without major impacts in functionality or performance of existing automation solutions. The modularity and flexibility of our product framework allows replacing the existing solution completely or part by part to reduce the impact. It ensures complete readiness for operating performance in a fab environment once the process is complete. Different stages in the plan for the execution lifecycle ensure the transition to the new solution smooth and well defined:

  • Discussion with automation engineers, process engineers and operators
  • Consolidation of concerns and suggestions
  • Integration architecture analysis
  • Operational scenario analysis
  • Custom scenarios and features consolidation
  • ICE compatible Custom Layers (ICL) selection
  • ICE compatible Custom Plug-ins (ICP) selection
  • Simulated testing for operational scenarios and features.
  • Hand-holding training and support.

Software upgrade to ICE Suite

The ICE product suite is well designed to provide one-to-one mapping of all features required for easy portability and upgrade from automation solutions provided by other major vendors. Any established legacy product for 200mm host connectivity,300mm host connectivity, factory host simulation, SECSII driver and Interface A connectivity can be replaced effectively by ICEConnect 200, ICE Connect 300,ICEHost,ICEConnectE5 and ICEBridgeA respectively.