Manufacturing

A 300mm wafer fab processes 5,000 wafers/week through 400+ process steps. Yield excursions in photolithography or etch can destroy an entire lot worth $2M. The process engineering team needs to catch drift within minutes, not after the end-of-lot inspection.

A photoresist thickness drift on Litho-Track-7 went undetected for 6 hours, scrapping 180 wafers ($780K) before the SPC chart was reviewed at shift change.
LIVEprocess_metrology
wafer_idlot_idtool_idstepthickness_nmuniformity_pctdefect_countts
W-44801LOT-2290LT-07PHOTORESIST_COAT1252.198.202024-03-15T06:00:12.000Z
W-44802LOT-2290LT-07PHOTORESIST_COAT1254.397.902024-03-15T06:03:45.000Z
W-44803LOT-2290LT-07PHOTORESIST_COAT1256.897.412024-03-15T06:07:18.000Z
W-44804LOT-2290LT-07PHOTORESIST_COAT1259.196.812024-03-15T06:10:51.000Z
W-44805LOT-2290LT-07PHOTORESIST_COAT1261.796.122024-03-15T06:14:24.000Z
W-44806LOT-2290LT-07PHOTORESIST_COAT1264.295.532024-03-15T06:17:57.000Z
Streaming SQLRunning
Ingest inline metrology measurements from Kafka
CREATE SOURCE process_metrology WITH (
  connector = 'kafka',
  topic = 'fab.metrology.inline',
  properties.bootstrap.server = 'broker:9092'
) FORMAT PLAIN ENCODE JSON;
Apply Western Electric SPC rules per tool
yield_alertsauto-updating
tool_idparameterdeviation_sigmaconsecutive_oorlot_impactalert_level
LT-07thickness_nm2.38FULL_LOTWARNING
LT-07thickness_nm2.812FULL_LOTWARNING
LT-03thickness_nm-0.30PARTIAL_LOTWATCH
RisingWave detects resist thickness on LT-07 trending 2.3 sigma above target for 12 consecutive wafers. Alert fires after wafer #8, saving 172 wafers from the excursion.
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