TCS's Robotic Automation Solutions to Digitally Transform Semiconductor Industry

Tata Consultancy Services announced a new Robotic Process Automation solution to drive greater accuracy and better quality in the chip fabrication process.

TCS has set up a new Semiconductor Center of Excellence (CoE) to design and build a closed-loop system. The center helps combine the power of automation and analytics to further enhance the semiconductor fabrication value chain.

CoE specialists are creating solutions that will enable the production robots, supported with intelligent algorithms. The new solutions will also respond to the heterogeneous scenarios to improve accuracy and quality throughout the semiconductor manufacturing process, the announcement notes.

Executive Opinion

V Rajanna, Global Head, Technology Business Unit, TCS, said, "We are leveraging our deep contextual knowledge gained from engagements in the semiconductor industry and harnessing the power of robotic automation to streamline core business processes using fab data intelligently. This will significantly jumpstart our customers’ Business 4.0 transformation journeys, with faster product introduction and improved quality. Our new CoE reiterates our commitment to investing in defining new digital paradigms for the semiconductor industry.”

Chad Gailey, Vice President, Channel Sales and Global Service Providers, Blue Prism Americas, said, "By combining TCS’ semiconductor industry expertise and our Connected-RPA platform we’re able to transform operations and speed up product delivery in one of the most competitive and vital industries in the world. We are driving disruption and innovation by offering an unbeatable value proposition for deploying intelligent automation solutions."

More on the TCS Robotics Process Automation

Big data, Internet of Things and hyper-connectivity are driving changes in the semiconductor market. This is making semiconductor companies to enable rapid innovation, product line expansion and vertical market focus, with speed and agility, notes the announcement.

The TCS Robotic Data Factory solution is built on Blue Prism’s Connected-RPA platform. The solution will use insights derived from fab production data to trigger appropriate business workflows. This will help reduce the response time to anomalies in the production of semiconductors.

TCS is also collaborating with the semiconductor companies in navigation the change with the help of a Machine First Delivery Model and Business 4.0 framework.

It is using its domain knowledge in the industry of semiconductor, and expertise in AI, Machine Learning and analytics to transform core operations in the semiconductor industry, said the announcement.