Manufacturing Industry
Trends
According to sources such as the Semiconductor Industry Association, the chip manufacturing sector has been struggling since the middle of the current decade with single digit growth. A major economic recession will only complicate chip demand by softening device manufacturer margins. Current industry wide trends include:
- Chip production is at full capacity, running 90 percent utilization levels while capital investment in new fabrication is slowing – which could lead to undersupply problems in the future.
- Downward price pressure will continue by device manufacturers, although overall sales of consumer electronics such as LCD TVs, digital cameras and mobile phones are increasing globally.
- The Asia/Pacific region is outpacing global growth. Frost & Sullivan believes the region may contribute up to 70 percent of the market’s revenue by decade’s end, with China leading and India the fastest growing. Leading companies should strengthen their plans for growth with acquisitions or partnerships in the region for back end testing or packaging.
Netwoven Manufacturing Solutions
Netwoven consultants have extensive experience in the High Tech Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry segment. Having the headquarters in the Silicon Valley has enabled Netwoven to work with several large Semiconductor companies in the bay area.
Key benefits to the Manufacturing Industry include:
- Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence: EMI is a critically important requirement in today's highly competitive manufacturing environment. No longer focused primarily on individual lines, departments and plants – it is a discipline that extends across multiple plants to touch suppliers around the globe.
- Customer Centricity: sales effectiveness can be improved by optimizing the Demo Management process.
- Operational Efficiency: Break down silos of information in operations, finance and sales.
Netwoven Solution Practices Deliver Value to Manufacturing Management
- Connect with customers to make sales and marketing collateral available or to easily obtain testimonials to aid sales
- Speed orders, logistics and transport form processing
- Support global operational productivity for distributed manufacturing
- Shipper portals for rapid customer service fulfillment
- Supplier portals for tracking outsourced products
- Improve work in progress visibility and inventory management support
- Quick and accurate planning for material requirements
- Quality management process support during product assembly and testing
- Harness the value of EMI data using Microsoft SQL Server 2005’s Analysis Services
- Support finance and product costing, including detailed inventory valuation