Serus helps NVIDIA Accelerate Product Engineering Processes Across the Outsourced Supply Chain
Improving cycle times, reducing errors and enabling yield improvements.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.—June 14, 2010The world leader in visual computing, NVIDIA sought to improve automation and control across its global manufacturing processes to improve Product Engineers capacity and efficiency, reduce Engineering Change Order (ECO) cycle times, and automate execution between internal Product Engineering teams and outsource suppliers.
SERUS SOLUTIONS Serus assisted NVIDIA with their master product data and process design across FAB, CPSORT, Assembly, Test, and SLT. The focus was on network based manufacturing transformation processes around multi-insert test programs, bin and yield management. Serus’ combination of technology, best practices and managed services brought significant efficiency into NVIDIA’s manufacturing operations.
Ranga Jayaraman, NVIDIA’s chief information officer, said: “The custom application NVIDIA had previously used to define chip BOMs and the manual processes to communicate the BOMs and production steps to manufacturing partners were error prone and time consuming. The Serus solution suite provided a commercial alternative to additional custom development. It has resulted in significant reductions in BOM creation and maintenance times and errors. It also enabled the process to be executed outside of Santa Clara, allowing the Product Engineering team to focus on driving yield improvements. I am pleased with the Serus team’s deep knowledge of semiconductor processes and their high quality deployment on an aggressive timetable.”
BENEFITS ACHIEVED In less than twelve months, benefits included: improved on time delivery, reduced manufacturing and timing errors, improved operations execution and cycle-times, increased visibility, yield forecast and planning accuracy across a large outsource trading partner supply chain.
“Working with NVIDIA provided a great opportunity for Serus to help a forward thinking company and marquee customer in one of our prime market segments improve outsource manufacturing operations. By streamlining and automating execution processes across the supply and distribution chains, we’re helping our customers leverage their supply and distribution networks to improve on time delivery, operations efficiency, supply agility and decrease operations costs.” Says Geoff Annesley – Serus CTO & GM Enterprise Solutions.
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ABOUT SERUS
Serus, an award-winning provider of Intelligent Operations Management (IOM) technology and managed services for companies with distributed or outsourced manufacturing operations, is proving critical to NVIDIA’s yield and quality improvements, error-free outsourced manufacturing and product engineering cost reduction initiative.
Serus SaaS solutions enable efficient automated collaboration, execution and decision making across global supply and distribution networks.
Based in Sunnyvale, Calif. with a worldwide development team, Serus customers include companies such as AMD®, Cisco®, Entropic®, Flextronics® and NVIDIA® as well as other leaders in the fabless semiconductor and high-technology manufacturing markets.
