A Planning Approach for an Effective Digitalization of Processes in Mature Semiconductor Production Facilities

Automation and digitalization are important measures for semiconductor manufacturers to enhance key performance indicators, and to strengthen their competitiveness. However, concrete approaches for effectively planning this digitalization of production or production-support processes are missing. Therefore, this paper introduces the Planning for Digitalization (P4D) approach. P4D aggregates general planning approaches for digitalization in production, as well as concrete tools and methods. By evaluating and categorizing their use in different situations of digitalization processes, P4D allows a situation-specific and new combination of these approaches and methods. Its goal is a comprehensive and action guiding compendium that can easily be applied. In this paper, part of P4D is exemplarily evaluated at a production site of Infineon Technologies in Dresden, Germany.