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August 2004: iSky Factory Automation and Abinition finish installation of their latest product, TLOGFEED, at a large semiconductor manufacturer in California (Bay Area). The TLOGFEED software enables manufacturers to increase productivity by allowing engineers and operations personnel to access production data in real time. This data, previously locked up in the Promis(tm) proprietary database, is mirrored to an industry standard SQL database. Now standard report tools can be used to look at, analyze, and report on production data. The TLOGFEED software is an important step forward for iSky FA and Abinition. For more information,
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May 2004: iSky Factory Automation to present at Semiconductor Venture Fair III, San Jose, California. This conference brings together investors and promising companies in a two day format. We look forward to the opportunity present our vision to leading venture capital and institutional investors.
April 2004: iSky Factory Automation joins forces with Abinition, Inc in Carlsbad, California. Abinition and iSky have a shared vision of simplifying the complex business of running semiconductor manufacturing facilities. Abinition has built the core engine, called HyperScript, that enables business integration between disparate proprietary systems. As time goes on, we will be using the "iSky" label for our products.
HyperScript(c) has been in production for almost 10 years, in various versions. The software levels the playing field in communicating equally well with Promis, fab equipment (SECS/GEM), SQL databases, dMBX, HTTP, TCP/IP, and XML. The software enables client independent, web services interfaces for any system it integrates with, all from a common programming environment.
March 2004: iSky Factory Automation installs software upgrade for another Speck-Tech slat counter. This software replaces the PLC software, and makes the equipment behave like a Merrill. This results in increased reliability (virtually no jams), increased throughput (20%), and new features (run slat motor backward to clear jams).
January 2004: iSky Factory Automation installs iSky Slat Counter- Equipment Controller Upgrade (SC-ECU) for Merrill tablet packaging equipment at a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer. After a smooth installation, the equipment performs flawlessly. The solution results in increased throughput, with virtually no jams. This equipment was previously plagued with jams and downtime due to its old control system.
November 11, 2003: iSky Factory Automation installs software upgrade for Speck-Tech slat counter equipment at leading pharmaceutical manufacturer. The solution results in significantly decreased downtime due to equipment control problems, and increases throughput by 20%.
September 14-16, 2003: iSky Factory Automation co-presents two papers as poster sessions at the Sematech AEC/APC Symposium 2003 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Stephen Berger of Sony Semiconductor and Michael Yockey of iSky Communications co-authored two papers about iSky's innovative wet station automation solutions, entitled:
- "Case Study: Second Source Upgrades - An Alternative to SECS Equipment Control"
Paper Presentation
- "Using Temporary Wet Sink Dedication Instead of Permanent Wet Bench Dedication"
Paper Presentation
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The first paper, "Case Study: Second Source Upgrades - An Alternative to SECS Equipment Control", details how the iSky FA-PLC product increased efficiency and reduced cost through an innovative, intelligent approach to equipment control.
The second paper, "Using Temporary Wet Sink Dedication Instead of Permanent Wet Bench Dedication" details how the bath dedication feature of the iSky FA-PLC product allows foundry processes to maintain throughput while mixing metal and non-metal processes in the same wet station.
iSky Communications, Inc, based in San Antonio, Texas, is a privately owned corporation providing software and systems to the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries. Texas has the most fab capacity in the Southwest US, and accounts for 6% of worldwide fab capacity (according to SEMI and Strategic Marketing Associates, "Fabs of the Southwest", July 2002).
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