SPOTFIRE

“ And by the way, this is not just semiconductors, but also flat panel displays; it’ s printed circuit boards; it’ s componentry that goes into automobiles, aircraft and medical devices.

“ This high-tech manufacturing – not just semiconductors, but also the surrounding ecosystem – is where the Spotfire technology is deployed.”

the amount Hemlock Semiconductor saves per month in electricity consumption via analytic-driven asset utilisation

performance issues and drive continuous improvement. They trace problems back to their sources and optimise factory operations to deliver better outcomes.

“ Those three personas really make the world go around with respect to electronic and semiconductor manufacturing,” highlights Brad.

What next for Spotfire? As Brad looks ahead, he reveals Spotfire is refocusing on its roots in domain-specific industries while developing more specialised capabilities for its core markets.

“ Historically, our objective was always to provide the best-possible universal technology for looking at data,” Brad explains.“ But, customers are asking for more domain-specific visualisations, more application-specific calculations.”

This strategic shift includes investments in custom visualisations like wafer maps and bitmap visualisations that wouldn’ t be found in general visualisation software.

The company is also enhancing the underlying platform to enable further customisation by customers.

“ We’ re striving to become the hightech manufacturing software of record for every company we can,” concludes Brad.“ I know our customers will appreciate that because they’ ve been pulling us to do it for so many years.

“ We’ re now investing in a very strong way in building out the domain-specific content that’ s so important for speaking the language of that given industry.”

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