Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. Announces Semicon Taiwan the Launch of Knext
January 04, 2022 at 09:05 am EST
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Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. announced at SEMICON Taiwan the launch of KNeXt, the new web-based industry 4.0 software solution that connects K&S equipment and enables fleet management, factory automation and productivity improvement. Over the past three decades, K&S has been focused on developing and enhancing equipment connectivity and factory automation solutions to drive efficiency and productivity for semiconductor assembly equipment. Over the last 5 years, strong customer demand drove more than 20,000 new active equipment connections.
Leveraging the Company's factory automation strength and existing installed base, KNeXt provides several new value enhancing features: Web based platform, with instant access anywhere within a customer's network; Factory dashboards with equipment fleet view, search and control of up to thousands of connected machines; Customized and cost-effective software modules to cater to different customer requirements; Option to provide standalone software as a service to integrate into a customer's existing manufacturing system and host software.
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. specializes in developing semiconductor and electronics assembly solutions. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells capital equipment, consumables and services used to assemble semiconductors and electronic devices, such as integrated circuits, power discrete, light-emitting diode (LEDs), advanced displays and sensors. The Company operates in four segments. Its Ball Bonding Equipment segment is in designs, development, manufacture, and sell of ball bonding equipment and wafer level bonding equipment. Its Wedge Bonding Equipment segment is in design, development, manufacture, and sale of wedge bonding equipment. The Company's Advanced Solutions is in design, development, manufacture, and sells advanced display, die-attach and thermocompression systems and solutions. Its aftermarket products and services segment is in the design, development, manufacture and sale of a variety of tools, spares and services for the Company's equipment.