SPOTFIRE need to capture company-specific intellectual property and best practices for ways to interpret that data.
“ No other technology does this. Spotfire is still, as far as I can tell, unique in the market.”
The fragmentation of manufacturing technology ecosystems compounds the challenges faced by manufacturers without visual data science at their disposal.
Many organisations operate numerous software systems that simply don’ t communicate effectively with each other.
Brad adds:“ What’ s been missing in this market is a technology that’ s the engineer’ s best friend, helping you to connect all those different systems, merge the data and make calculations and ask and answer questions in the fastest possible way to solve problems.”
Heterogeneous data and semiconductor innovation The future of semiconductor innovation increasingly depends on manufacturers’ ability to integrate and analyse heterogeneous data from multiple sources.
As manufacturers push the boundaries of what’ s physically possible, they need to harness every available data point.“ Our customers are pushing the envelope, pushing the limits of what’ s possible to make the tiniest line widths to pack billions and billions of transistors into devices,” Brad notes.“ To do that requires pulling out all the stops.”
This means monitoring and analysing everything from process characteristics, to device performance and even facility conditions such as variations in ambient pressure or vibrations. Every data element has the potential to provide a critical edge.
Brad states:“ They’ re trying to bring to bear every scrap of information and every bit of data from every possible source to get an edge over their competitors and to make that US $ 20bn factory effective and efficient so that they can get the return on their investment.”
Human and AI-powered exploration Spotfire has embraced artificial intelligence throughout its development, from early statistical models to modern large language models( LLMs) and generative AI technologies.
One of the platform’ s core AI features is a recommendation engine that uses machine learning to identify interesting patterns in data automatically.
“ The idea is bringing the human mind directly in contact with the data via interactive visual software”
BRAD HOPPER, VP OF INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS,
SPOTFIRE