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.