ASE Unveils Plans for the World’s First 5G mmWave NR-DC SA Smart Factory
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE) announced a strategic collaboration on August 23, 2023, to develop a 5G mmWave smart factory supported by Qualcomm Technologies and other key organizations. This initiative aims to enhance smart manufacturing capabilities through the integration of AI, 5G technologies, and operational technology security. Key focuses include real-time inventory forecasting, productivity improvements, and high-resolution quality inspections. The collaboration is expected to boost the semiconductor industry’s global competitiveness by driving digital transformation and intelligent automation.
- Strategic collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies for 5G mmWave smart factory development.
- Integration of AI and 5G technologies expected to improve manufacturing efficiency.
- Focus on real-time inventory forecasting and enhanced productivity.
- Partnership includes various industry and academic leaders, enhancing innovation.
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A Strategic Collaboration with the Best-in-Class to craft the future of Smart Manufacturing for
With the increasing complexity of global competition characterized by the rapid shifts in market supply and demand, as well as human resource constraints, companies continue to face unprecedented challenges in upgrading and transforming their business operations. To counter the talent crunch and adapt to diverse customer requirements, ASE is accelerating its adoption of smart manufacturing technologies including automation, and the integration of OT (operational technology) security to increase the efficiency of its equipment and productivity. In line with the company’s vision of building advanced and robust smart factories, ASE has partnered with leading industry players, and key government, academic and research institutions in converging AI applications with 5G technologies.
Overview of the 5G Collaboration
The collaboration will focus on enabling the digital transformation of factory processes that are highly secured and highly reliable through facilitating 5G wireless infrastructure integration, smart heterogeneous equipment integration and OT security system integration. Areas covered include developments in:
- AI-enabled detection of abnormalities from the SOP (standard operating process) that will improve the ability of operators and maintenance personnel to ensure consistent yield quality and a safe operating environment
- enhancing productivity and yield improvement through the data analysis of both current and newly purchased equipment in operation, and optimizing model parameters
- intelligent material handling solutions that enables real-time inventory forecasting to delivery that result in overall reduction of production cycle time
- generating high-resolution AOI images in real-time with the help of high bandwidth mobile streaming, to improve the accuracy and efficiency of quality inspection
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the deployment of 5G mmWave
NR-DC SA technology that offers network stability and speed to improve connectivity and in case of a machine re-layout, the reduction of set up time will also improve the overall equipment efficiency (OEE) - OT security technology to ensure the reliability, security and functionality of machines and tasks in a digitized manufacturing environment
Snapdragon® X65 5G Modem-RF System and New Radio Dual Connectivity for Standalone 5G
The smart factory will utilize the Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System and 5G NR-DC software with uplink four-component carrier aggregation (UL 4CC CA), in which four contiguous carriers of 100MHz are combined together with 2.6GHz (mid-band) and 28GHz (high-band), to achieve an uplink speed of 600Mbps. The low latency and higher data speeds are critical to semiconductor manufacturing environments for advanced processes and will in turn accelerate the application and development of smart manufacturing.
Uniting with the Best in Class to Chart the Course of the Next Generation 5G
Asia Pacific Telecom’s vast experience in enterprise wireless networks will be instrumental in deploying next-generation 5G network architecture within a manufacturing environment. Today marks an important milestone, as leading players in the industry, government, academia and research sectors joined forces to drive the developments of smart factory technologies. Such engagement will contribute to greater innovation in digital transformation and intelligent automation, and strengthen the global competitiveness of the semiconductor industry.
‘The success of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry and its importance in the global supply chain are the results of many factors, of which strategic initiatives led by the
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‘As a global leader in 5G technology, we believe that the next step in the 5G evolution is to move towards standalone mode and allow for industry growth in areas such as Industrial IoT and cloud services. This announcement again illustrates the importance of Taiwan’s comprehensive ICT supply chain and its technological advantages, so as how Qualcomm Technologies has always attached great value to Taiwan’s industry and ecosystem. We are excited to take part in driving the much needed development of technologies in a transforming industry. We will continue to support Taiwan’s development of mmWave technology and work together to strengthen Taiwan’s 5G ecosystem.’
- ST Liew, Vice President,
‘Asia Pacific Telecom is committed to technological innovation and the development of the 5G industry. Our strengths in integrating 5G enterprise private networks and vertical applications have led to the completion of
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Besides Qualcomm Technologies, the
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