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How OptimalPlus Solves Your Most Critical Challenges


OptimalPlus empowers manufacturers to overcome their most critical challenges through unified data, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation, driving higher yields, better quality, lower costs, and improved performance across even the most demanding manufacturing environments.

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Yield Management and Scrap Avoidance

Every scrapped unit erodes profitability. OptimalPlus stops it before it starts, protecting margins and ensuring consistent quality. By minimizing defects and reducing waste early in the process, manufacturers improve efficiency, lower costs, and shorten time to market.

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Maximize Overall Yield

OptimalPlus delivers real-time insights, root-cause analytics, and automated actions to reduce scrap, boost efficiency, and protect customer trust. Advanced algorithms and rules enable continuous yield monitoring, site-to-site comparison, equipment monitoring, retest policy optimization, and test limit validation, while pinpointing defects for rapid resolution.

Proactively Predict and Detect Equipment Performance

Unplanned equipment failures can halt production, drive up costs, and compromise delivery schedules. Traditional reactive approaches often lead to excessive downtime and scrap, eroding profitability. OptimalPlus solves this by leveraging real-time data and advanced analytics to monitor equipment health, detect anomalies, and predict failures before they occur.

Detect and Act on Defect Patterns

OptimalPlus helps detect defect patterns early and take decisive action before issues escalate. With advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, OptimalPlus helps prevent escapes, optimize yield, and protect quality across the entire production lifecycle.

Improve Root Cause Analysis to Eliminate Systemic Yield Loss

OptimalPlus turns slow, reactive troubleshooting into fast, intelligent, and proactive action. By harmonizing data across the entire product lifecycle, hidden trends and systemic issues that traditional methods miss are uncovered. Automated workflows and AI-driven rules deliver immediate corrective actions, eradicating issues before they spread.

Reduce Site-to-Site Variability to Maximize Throughput

OptimalPlus delivers consistency across multiple sites by aggregating data and applying advanced analytics to provide near real-time visibility and standardize processes. Automated workflows and AI-driven rules trigger corrective actions before issues spread, helping prevent escapes, reduce scrap, and optimize test strategies to maximize throughput at scale.

Quality, Reliability, and Brand Protection

In safety-critical products, quality isn’t optional. Every product must meet exacting standards to protect reliability and preserve brand trust. OptimalPlus delivers real-time insights, automated controls, and predictive analytics to prevent escapes, reduce defects, and ensure consistent performance at scale.

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Prevent Quality Escapes by Finding Issues Early

OptimalPlus takes a proactive approach using real-time data and AI-driven traceability to spot issues early. By linking failures to their origin—whether design, supplier variability, process drift, or equipment—it uncovers hidden trends and systemic problems. Automated rules apply corrective actions, prevent recurrences, and protect yield, quality, and margins.

Minimize RMAs Through Proactive Quality and Control

OptimalPlus helps stop problems before they reach customers. By aggregating data across the supply chain and applying AI-driven analytics, OptimalPlus detects anomalies early, enforces corrective actions automatically, and prevents recurring issues, resulting in fewer return merchandise authorizations (RMAs), higher reliability, and stronger brand protection.

Accelerate Root Cause Analysis to Quickly Address Customer Issues

By aggregating data across the entire product lifecycle and applying advanced analytics, OptimalPlus quickly and accurately pinpoints the source of failures, uncovering hidden correlations that traditional approaches miss. Automated workflows apply corrective measures, which prevents repeat issues and protects customer trust.

Meet or Exceed Compliance Standards

OptimalPlus uses AI-driven analytics and harmonized data from multiple sources across the product lifecycle to detect unusual patterns early, whether in wafer maps, test results, or process parameters, before they impact production. Automated workflows apply corrective actions, ensuring consistency by eliminating variability and enforcing uniform standards.

Eliminate Outliers to Ensure Product Consistency

OptimalPlus ensures product compliance with end-to-end traceability, secure data integrity, and proactive monitoring. It enforces real-time quality controls and provides the documentation and automation required to meet regulatory standards, including ISO 9001, FDA regulations, EU Digital Product Passport mandates, and industry-specific compliance frameworks.

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Efficiency and Utilization

Unlock the full potential of your manufacturing assets. OptimalPlus harmonizes data, provides real-time visibility, and applies AI-driven analytics to keep equipment running at peak performance, deliver more output with less waste, and achieve maximum ROI.

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Optimize Equipment Efficiency and Utilization

With intelligent automation, AI-powered insights, and real-time monitoring, OptimalPlus unlocks hidden capacity, minimizes downtime, and maximizes tester utilization. By combining centralized visibility, advanced analytics, and predictive maintenance, it boosts equipment uptime, streamlines test operations, and delivers faster ROI.

Optimize Test and Retest Policies

OptimalPlus uses AI-driven analytics and real-time monitoring to reduce test time without sacrificing quality. By analyzing historical data, it identifies low-value tests and applies adaptive logic to select which test to run, eliminating redundancy. Combined with smart retest policies, it ensures that test efficiency gains don’t compromise product integrity or yield.

Enable Adaptive Manufacturing Decisions

OptimalPlus empowers manufacturers to make adaptive decisions on the fly. Continuous analysis of equipment performance, product data, and process trends enables dynamic adjustments to optimize test limits, retest strategies, and resource allocations in real time. The result is higher yield, reduced downtime, and faster response to variability.

Supplier Transparency

OptimalPlus gives manufacturers clear visibility into supplier performance through benchmarking and yield insights across the entire supply chain. Real-time analytics compare suppliers, detect quality issues early, and rapidly trace root causes, ensuring consistent quality from every partner and building trust across the ecosystem.

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Create a Single Source of Truth for Supplier Data

OptimalPlus creates a single source of truth by unifying data from testers, suppliers, and production systems into a unified data model. This capability delivers a consistent view across all supplier sites, enabling objective benchmarking and KPI-driven insights for proactive quality management.

Benchmark Supplier Performance

OptimalPlus uses a unified data model to standardize information from testers, suppliers, and production systems. This common framework ensures side-by-side comparisons across all supplier sites. By eliminating data silos and variability, manufacturers gain a clear, trusted view of supplier performance, driving transparency, and accountability.

Ensure Compliance Across Suppliers

OptimalPlus gives manufacturers a unified view of supplier compliance. By consolidating data across all sites, it enables proactive monitoring of quality, yield, and process adherence. With consistent rule enforcement and KPI-driven insights, manufacturers can ensure compliance across the entire supply chain.

Shortened Time to Market

OptimalPlus reduces time to market by turning data from across the product lifecycle into a single, actionable resource. The unified data model and AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and adaptive test strategies enable faster yield learning and deeper quality insights, resulting in significantly quicker product ramp-up.

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Shorten NPI Time with Data-Driven Insights

OptimalPlus empowers faster new product introductions (NPIs). With AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and adaptive test strategies, it eliminates inefficiencies, optimizes test flows, and ensures supplier quality. The result is shorter ramp times, lower costs, higher throughput, and maximum ROI without compromising reliability or compliance.

Balance Time, Cost, and Quality

OptimalPlus gives manufacturers the flexibility to adjust strategies based on time, cost, or quality. Leveraging analytics, proactive quality control, adaptive test flows, and site-to-site consistency, it tunes processes to reduce test time, minimize costs, or enforce quality standards. This intelligent adaptability ensures every decision drives performance.

Share Learnings for Continuous Improvement

OptimalPlus enables a closed-loop, data-driven workflow that captures learnings at every stage of the product lifecycle to continuously improve quality, yield, cost, and customer experience. The platform unifies heterogeneous data and operationalizes insights so that each downstream phase starts smarter and each upstream phase learns faster.

Enable Seamless Collaboration Across Teams

OptimalPlus breaks down silos and fosters true cross-functional collaboration. By providing a unified platform for data, analytics, and workflow automation, OptimalPlus ensures teams work together using a shared data set. This real-time visibility enables faster decision-making, improved efficiency, and higher product reliability.

AI-Driven Product and Process Improvements

OptimalPlus leverages big data and AI to create an intelligence engine that optimizes processes, elevating product quality and boosting operational efficiency throughout the product lifecycle. It helps detect issues before they escalate, optimize yield, and shorten time to market. From component to final system, OptimalPlus ensures consistent results across global operations.

Unified and Connected Data for Holistic Decision-Making

OptimalPlus harnesses a unified data model across the manufacturing ecosystem. By linking data from components to the final system or test, it transforms isolated data into a complete picture. This connected intelligence optimizes yield, reduces risk, and shortens time to root-cause analysis for confident data-driven decisions that drive continuous improvement.

Achieve End-to-End Traceability Across the Value Chain

By integrating and harmonizing data across the manufacturing lifecycle, delivering real-time visibility, applying advanced analytics, and supporting actionable workflows, OptimalPlus drives full device genealogy from raw materials to shipment. It also provides rapid isolation and resolution of quality issues, compliance, and operational efficiencies in yield and cost.

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Make Real-Time Decisions for Agile Manufacturing

OptimalPlus enables real-time decisions that drive agile manufacturing. The software unifies data into a single connected environment, applying analytics and AI/ML to detect hidden anomalies, predict failures, and optimize test strategies. With immediate visibility and predictive edge intelligence, teams can respond quickly to changing conditions.

Apply Analytics to Drive Automated Action

OptimalPlus unites rule-based automation with AI/ML intelligence to deliver proactive control. The rules engine monitors data streams and applies rules for actions such as OD, dynamic PAT limit adjustments, automated hold/rebin, and alerts. AI/ML models uncover hidden patterns, predict failures, and recommend actions that enhance yield and reliability.

Drive Efficiency with AI

OptimalPlus leverages AI/ML to drive efficiency through a powerful edge-to-central analytics loop. By unifying production and shop floor data, it enables real-time edge insights while synchronizing with centralized intelligence for enterprise-wide optimization. This approach supports predictive maintenance, optimizing yields, and scrap reduction.