Self Optimised Manufacture

The Bosch Wafer Fab in Dresden, Germany is touted as the world’s most modern. Deepti Thore looks at the capabilities of the smart, future-ready factory.

- Deepti Thore

The automotive industry, globally, is finding ways to overcome the shortage of semiconductors. In effect, even with demand sentiment improving, these big supply-side constraints are the biggest handicap for automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). It is feared to continue to negatively impact growth for the rest of the fiscal. For a semiconductor, wafers are the key input raw material. After all, it is on these wafers that fabrication with a series of repeated sequential steps aid in the production of electronic circuits on the semiconductor wafer.