SPOTFIRE
The technical challenges are equally daunting. Modern semiconductor manufacturing involves creating increasingly smaller components while packing billions of transistors into devices that often sell at relatively modest prices.
This creates what Brad describes as“ immense time pressure on top of the technical pressure to design something and build it on a manufacturable process”.
Ultimately, achieving success requires an understanding of complicated data from multiple sources.
Visual data science: A powerful combination At the heart of the Spotfire offering is what the company calls“ visual data science”, a combination of three key capabilities that work together to help engineers and scientists solve complex problems.
The first component is the visual exploration of data, allowing users to apply their expertise to investigate information and find answers.
The second is advanced analytics optimised for specific industries, enabling users to apply mathematical models to support visual analysis.
“ The third piece is applications,” Brad adds.“ You can configure an analytic workflow that connects to operational systems, merges and transforms data, provides contextual views and applies sophisticated analytical routines to discover anomalies.
“ Then, based on that result, the end user might drive in a different direction,
54 May 2025