Semiconductor

Set it up in your plant

Setting up Semiconductor (assembly and test) in your plant. Semiconductor runs back-end assembly and test as designs: products and their routes, lots and holds, equipment and test cells, materials and durables, preventive maintenance, and SPC with an out-of-control plan per process.

1. Install itIT

   On the plant's OpenCore MES server, in its plant folder: sign in once with a licence token from your account at suites.opencoremes.com (one token per installation: production, test, training), install the suite, then restart OpenCore MES (opencore-mes start, or the service that runs it). The start log then lists it.

   opencore-mes suite login

   opencore-mes suite install semiconductor

2. Try it on a test installation firstIT

   Install it on a test or training installation before production. There, load its sample records (Designer → From the suites → Load its sample records) and walk the screens with the people who will use them. Samples never go on production.

3. Prepare People & departmentsAdministrator

   The suite's designs give their roles to the groups production (the floor), quality (holds, SPC, QA) and engineering (products, routes, equipment). Check those groups exist in People & departments with the right people (or rename them in the change, next step), and that each department that must approve has its representatives.

4. Take its designs through a changeDesigner

   Designer → From the suites → Start a change from it. The change holds product families and products, equipment and test cells, test programs, materials and durables, lots, holds and hold codes, the back-end route, the OCAPs, maintenance and PM plans, the moves and the stations; and a Certified for field on the Person record. Change what differs in your plant before submitting (labels, fields, limits, screens). Run the fitness test: every transaction's scenarios run in a sandbox. Submit; a reviewer passes it; Production, Quality and Engineering approve it; it goes live as one change, all of it or none.

   • Nothing goes live until it is approved: the suite only offers its designs.
   • Once live they are your plant's own designs: they keep working if the suite is removed.
5. Shape the route and its limitsEngineering

   In the Flow designer, match the back-end route to your line: its operations, which equipment process runs each, the measuring steps' characteristics and limits, what each operation needs (magazines, materials, blades, setups, base plates, test cells and temperatures). Products name their route and test plan (cold, hot, burn-in).

6. Load equipment, products and materialsEngineering

   Enter your equipment models and tools, test cells, products with their bill of materials and test programs, materials and durables (with their lives and PM intervals), hold codes and their releasing departments, and PM schedules.

7. Certify the operatorsProduction

   On each operator's Person record, Certified for lists the processes they may run: Track in at wire bonding refuses anyone not certified.

8. Go liveQuality

   Start a pilot lot and walk it through every operation; check the holds each OCAP places and who releases them; train each station on its screen.

The same guide is in FLAMES once the suite is installed: Designer, From the suites, Set-up guide.