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Recently, the finals of the 2024 GigaDevice 2nd Supplier Continuous Improvement Competition were held in Hefei, where teams competed on innovations around the theme of continuous quality improvement. As GigaDevice's digital quality management solution provider, Getech was invited to share experiences on digital transformation during the event.

Currently, driven by external pressures such as customer demands, market competition, and technological development, as well as internal needs for quality improvement, cost reduction, and efficiency enhancement, digital transformation has become a crucial means for manufacturing companies to enhance their core competitiveness.

Yang Fan from Getech's Semiconductor Division stated that during the process of digital transformation, companies face challenges such as technical complexity, organizational change and training, and data and network security. It is essential to base efforts on lean management thinking, integrate digital technology, gradually achieve informatization, automation, and intelligence, realize ultimate efficiency, ultimate yield, and ultimate cost, and build a digital factory.

"For example, by introducing automated equipment and systems, factory automation rates can be increased, employee workload reduced, and job satisfaction enhanced. Additionally, an integrated digital platform can be built on top of existing factory systems to break down data isolation and fragmentation, maximize the utilization of data assets, and drive management decisions through data analysis. Furthermore, for critical production support equipment and high-value assets, intelligent maintenance can be achieved through data collection and AI analysis, strengthening fault prediction and ensuring 'zero' downtime for such equipment."

As an industrial intelligent solution provider originating from semiconductor manufacturing, Getech leverages deep semiconductor know-how, adopts a new perspective of 'production-analysis-prediction,' deepens IT and OT integration, delves into industrial sites, and fully utilizes the advantages of emerging technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and big data. By driving intelligent upgrades of equipment and edge control hardware through software and algorithms, Getech has built an integrated software-hardware solution for semiconductor smart factories, helping semiconductor factories develop centralized control capabilities and achieve intelligent production, comprehensive quality, unmanned logistics, and digital plant management.

Taking comprehensive quality as an example, Getech's 'Comprehensive Quality' solution includes Quality Management System QMS, Yield Management System YMS, Equipment Fault Detection System FDC, Laboratory Information Management System LIMS, etc., combining AI algorithms and big data to empower quality analysis and optimization, helping semiconductor companies achieve the core goal of ultimate yield.

Among these, Getech's QMS Quality Management System (ranked first in the semiconductor industry) can seamlessly integrate with existing enterprise systems or actively collect and input data. It deeply mines and summarizes originally discrete and complex quality data, performing in-depth analysis and correlation calculations on key factory data such as personnel, machines, materials, and methods involved in process changes, equipment maintenance, and production records. This enables visual quality management and automated analysis. By centralizing, standardizing, and efficiently managing factory quality data, it provides effective data support for quality control throughout the product lifecycle and helps companies reduce quality costs.

Yang Fan explained that the 'Quality Digital Platform' co-built by Getech and GigaDevice sets goals around two main lines: quality business optimization and management digital upgrade, achieving digital transformation of quality management in three steps:

First, informatization: integrating and streamlining business processes to achieve online quality management;

Second, platform construction: establishing a quality digital platform, connecting 10 surrounding systems such as MES, CRM, and SAP, breaking down data silos, and achieving cross-system interoperability for quality business and data;

Third, intelligence: fully leveraging data value, strengthening data governance, and achieving data-driven intelligent decision-making.

In the future, Getech will continue to work closely with GigaDevice to deepen the digital construction of the quality system and jointly provide high-quality, advanced digital services to GigaDevice's customers and supply chain partners.

GigaDevice is a leading global Fabless chip supplier and a top domestic IC design company, providing comprehensive product technology and services to customers in industrial, automotive, computing, consumer electronics, IoT, mobile applications, and communications. The company's SPI NOR Flash products hold the second-largest global market share and the largest in China.