OptimalPlus Courses
Learning paths for OptimalPlus Solution
OptimalPlus users can explore the value our applications bring using the power of big data analytics. The following courses are available for OptimalPlus Semiconductor and Non-Semiconductor solutions users.
New user learning path
This path is for new OptimalPlus users starting to explore the NI OptimalPlus solution. It provides a basic review of its Portal+, Rules+, and Control Room+ applications.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
Gain familiarity with the NI OptimalPlus solution, as it provides a basic review of its Portal+, Rules+, and Control Room+ applications. |
Global Operations learning path
This learning path expands the introduction learning path and focuses on the Optimal+ Global Operations solution. Explore how to harness the power of big data analytics to improve yield and productivity with an integrated view into your global manufacturing operations and processes.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| Explore the OptimalPlus Basics Course Overview | Get an integrated view of your global manufacturing operations and processes. Learn the basics of Portal+ and Rules+ applications, including how to execute a preliminary analysis on Portal+. Set up your first dashboard and rule to establish automated operational monitors. | |
| OptimalPlus Global Operations: Beyond the Basics Course Overview | Extend your basic skills of Portal+ and Rules+ applications and learn more about Portal+. Enhance your dashboard’s visualizations with conditional formatting and targets. Create a custom query configuring generic rules and detect outliers across entity types. | Explore the OptimalPlus Basics Course Overview |
| Starting Your Journey with OptimalPlus Data Explorer Course Overview | This self-paced course offers a practical introduction to OptimalPlus Data Explorer, covering essential setup steps, core features, and the use of Production dashboards to gain immediate insights. By the end, learners will be able to navigate confidently, interpret dashboards, and identify key data trends. It is the first course in the OptimalPlus Data Explorer series and is recommended for both Viewer users, who rely on standard Flow Dashboards for decision‑making, and Authoring users beginning their learning journey. |
We recommend this course to production, quality, and product engineers so that they automatically can identify and select specific data for a desired analysis, which can translate into a significant reduction in data-collection time and offers a tremendous opportunity to use the saved time to gain timely insights into hidden ROI opportunities and perform production issue root cause analysis.
| Course Names | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| Sequoia Essentials Course Overview | Sequoia is a flexible lite-code framework for manipulating, analyzing, and augmenting data from various data sources into actionable insights across your supply chain. The new Sequoia course is composed of several lessons and hands-on practices. It is advised that at the first milestone, course participants will undergo the first lesson in a self-learning method. The trainer will recap the content in the classroom. |
Global Operations Plus learning path
This learning path consists of Global Operations+ solutions courses. Learn how to implement Global Operations+ in a customer environment and address process-related issues and increase quality and reliability by killing or downgrading outlier units.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| Exploring OptimalPlus Escape Prevention Solution Course Overview | Implement Escape Prevention rules to address testing processes and operational issues that impact quality and may result in test escapes. Ensure only good products are shipped to your customers. Learn how to analyze your data and manage the publication of validated escape rules to the test floor. | OptimalPlus Global Operations: Beyond the Basics Course Overview |
| Exploring OptimalPlus Escape Prevention - Advanced Course Overview | Run Escape Prevention rules to address test processes and operational issues by implementing OptimalPlus best practices. | Exploring OptimalPlus Escape Prevention Solution Course Overview |
| Exploring the OptimalPlus Adaptive Test-Time Reduction Solution Course Overview | Enhance your OptimalPlus skills with the Adaptive Test-Time Reduction . Learn how to combine traditional test-time reduction techniques with innovative, intelligent adaptive testing in a fully automated process. | |
| Exploring OptimalPlus NPI Solution Course Overview | Explore the NPI+ capabilities to analyze and chart the behavior of a new device based on parametric and functional measurements made across multiple processes, voltage, and temperature conditions. | |
| Using the Outlier Detection Solution Course Overview | Address fab-process-related issues to meet quality targets. Statistically analyze test data from multiple operations, utilizing proven PAT (Part Average Testing) algorithms to identify good outlier units. Power up OptimalPlus skills by learning how to execute Outlier Detection algorithms on test data using a pre-defined population. | OptimalPlus Global Operations: Beyond the Basics Course Overview |
IT learning path
This path is recommended for those who support OptimalPlus users and its infrastructure. This program aims to identify and train customer IT system admin users to be the first point of contact for OptimalPlus IT Tier 1 queries.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| This fundamental training program provides foundational concepts, principles, and techniques to gain a solid understanding and proficiency in OptimalPlus IT : T1 basic support |
Additional Course Options
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Explore the main features and major enhancements in the latest OptimalPlus version deployed by your company. Learn the latest OptimalPlus improvements and additions and stay up-to-date with the cutting-edge functionalities.
OptimalPlus “Train the Trainer” Program
A training framework that turns Users into subject matter experts who can teach other users within their organization.
Exploring Data Interactively Using DIAdem
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