Manufacturing Equipment Engineering Solutions
Semiconductor equipment OEMs face compounding challenges today in reducing time-to-market while meeting stringent quality, reliability, and efficiency requirements. Quest Global serves as an extension of your R&D team, providing end-to-end engineering services that span the complete equipment lifecycle. Our expertise in SEMI standards compliance, mechanical, electrical, software, embedded, and digital engineering helps us deliver first-time-right solutions that accelerate your product launches.
We address the increasing complexity of equipment design through integrated engineering services that ensure 24/7 operational reliability and successful factory-acceptance tests. Our services cover product engineering, sustenance engineering, solution accelerators, aftermarket support, and field services engineering at fabs worldwide. This integrated methodology ensures seamless coordination across all engineering disciplines, resulting in robust, high-performance manufacturing equipment.
Our continuous endeavor to improve your manufacturing KPIs drives equipment innovation toward higher throughput, improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), and reduced downtimes. Quest Global’s decades of industry expertise enable equipment OEMs to navigate market challenges while maintaining seamless adherence to SEMI standards and fab-specific requirements.
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Quest Global's flagship automation framework delivers comprehensive factory automation capabilities in compliance with full SEMI GEM standards. This advanced framework supports both 200mm and 300mm manufacturing environments through extensive standards implementation, including SEMI standards, Stream 12 (Wafermap), and G84 (Stripmap). The system excels in high-performance data management, supporting process program transfers up to 15MB with transfer completion within 15 seconds. The framework's sophisticated trace functionality enables concurrent traces with seamless re-initialization capabilities. Through customizable screens and interfaces, manufacturers can adapt the system to specific operational requirements while maintaining standards compliance and performance metrics.
Our advanced connectivity solution establishes seamless communication between 200mm semiconductor manufacturing equipment and factory hosts. This package implements the SEMI Generic Equipment Model (GEM) standard and SEMI Communication Interface Standards (CIS), ensuring reliable equipment-to-host data exchange. The solution incorporates fundamental and enhanced capabilities aligned with SEMI E4, E5, E30, and E37 standards, providing manufacturing equipment with robust connectivity features essential for modern fab operations. Each implementation undergoes rigorous testing to verify standard compliance and performance under high-volume manufacturing conditions.
This solution enables sophisticated communication protocols between factory hosts and 300mm semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Built on industry-leading standards, including SEMI E39, E40, E87, E90, E116, E58, and E94, the package undergoes regular updates to maintain alignment with evolving industry requirements. The solution seamlessly interfaces with 200mm host connectivity implementations, enabling unified equipment communication across mixed-technology manufacturing environments. Our architecture supports advanced automation features while maintaining backward compatibility with existing systems.
Our EDA solution, supporting Freeze2 (0710) standards, delivers advanced equipment data acquisition capabilities. The package maintains full compliance with current standards including E120, E121, E125, E128, E132, E134, E138, and E147, ensuring comprehensive data collection capabilities. The system captures real-time sensor and operational data at high volumes while maintaining normal equipment performance levels. Through Quest Global's EDA Software Development Kit (SDK), manufacturers can customize implementations to meet specific factory requirements. The solution features E164-compliant metadata integration with sophisticated security controls for client connections, allowing flexible configuration for various equipment types while maintaining data integrity.
The host simulation package provides manufacturers with sophisticated testing capabilities for equipment communication protocols. This solution enables the creation and validation of both standard and custom host scenarios, supporting OEMs in testing equipment behavior under various fab-specific conditions. The package includes an extensive suite of predefined test scenarios while allowing the development of custom test cases. Supporting both 200mm and 300mm SEMI standards, the simulator helps manufacturers verify equipment compliance and performance before fab deployment. This comprehensive testing solution reduces integration time and ensures reliable equipment operation in production environments.
Services
Manufacturing Equipment Engineering
Understanding the critical need to reduce extended product development cycles that impact time-to-market, we solve the increasing complexity of equipment integration across mechanical, electrical, electronics, software and digital engineering. Our services ensure high product reliability for 24x7x365 operations and full SEMI standards compliance. We provide field services engineering at fabs to maintain high equipment uptimes. Our expertise covers software product engineering, including application software, and embedded solutions, including firmware, middleware, and device drivers, SEMI standards compliance verification and test automation, precision mechanical design with FEA/CFD analysis, electrical schematic design, PCB development, PLC programming and GUI/HMI development.
Manufacturing Equipment Automation
Fabs demand high throughput, lower defects, and minimal downtime from semiconductor equipment OEMs. OEMs must design automation systems that are smarter, faster, and fully compliant with SEMI standards. This involves creating solutions for high-precision wafer handling, complex workflow processing, and optimized wafer scheduling. We provide engineering services for cluster tools, wafer handling systems, and process/inspection modules. Our SEMI standards-compliant frameworks for equipment control and host connectivity solutions reduce time-to-market while ensuring 100% compliance with fab standards. We solve challenges, including optimized wafer scheduling for maximum throughput, integration and control of third-party devices, implementation of GEM and EDA standards and SEMI standards compliance testing.
Factory Automation
As semiconductor manufacturing equipment generates increasing data volumes and fabs adopt Industry 4.0 practices with standards like EDA Freeze3, equipment OEMs must ensure smooth integration with MES and factory automation systems. Non-compliance with SEMI standards or fab requirements can result in the rejection of multi-million-dollar equipment. We develop host connectivity solutions compliant with SECS/GEM and EDA standards, with mature solutions deployed in major fabs worldwide, ensuring 100% compliance and reliability. Our in-house host simulator validates SEMI standards compliance and custom scenarios from fab. We assist with factory acceptance tests, ensuring all fab tests pass the first time. Our solutions reduce equipment acceptance time at fabs through proven compliance testing and validation methodologies.
Digital Transformation
The semiconductor industry's shift toward data-driven manufacturing requires capturing and analyzing equipment data in real-time to improve yield, throughput, and efficiency. We deploy AI for automatic defect detection and classification, predictive maintenance, digital twins, and equipment health monitoring. Our solutions address unscheduled downtime, improve operator efficiency, and enable process optimization. Through IoT integration, edge computing deployment, and advanced analytics platforms, we transform equipment performance metrics. Our AR/VR applications enhance equipment operation while AI/ML algorithms provide intelligent insights for continuous improvement.
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Dushy Reddy
Global Business Head, Semiconductors
With over two decades of experience in the industry, he’s passionate about iterative and innovative solutions for his clients’ problems. Dushy holds a master’s degree in engineering from IIT-Kharagpur, India.
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Rajeev Nair
Strategic Business Leader, Semiconductors
Rajeev Nair is known for devising market strategies and orchestrating successful mergers and acquisitions. His leadership reflects adaptability and transformational capabilities, particularly in establishing and expanding industry verticals in Japan.
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Sumedha Limaye
Vertical Delivery Leader, Semiconductors
Sumedha has 30 years of experience in silicon design for AI, server edge, and networking SoCs, developing unique products and services in SoCs, digital IPs, and CAD/EDA tools. At Quest Global, she leads strategy execution to enhance capabilities and operational discipline, meeting the semiconductor market's dynamic demands across design, embedded software, and OSATs.
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Gopakumar Vasavan
Vertical Solutions Partner, Semiconductors
As a passionate engineer-turned-business leader, he has almost three decades of experience across diverse verticals including Hi-Tech, Automotive, Aerospace, and Semiconductors with key expertise in engineering software, embedded systems, and digital solutions for global clients.
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Srinivasan Natarajan
Delivery Leader, Semiconductors
A seasoned professional with 23 years of experience in product engineering across mechanical, software, hardware, and manufacturing. He has developed engineering centers for leading OEMs in semiconductors, transportation, energy & utilities, and aerospace. He is dedicated to growing Engineering Centers for Semiconductor Equipment customers worldwide.
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Mubarak Rasheed
Industry Leader, Semiconductors
With 27 years in software engineering, he has a proven track record developing innovative solutions for semiconductor equipment companies. His expertise covers etch, deposition, inspection, and metrology. He possesses in-depth knowledge of SEMI standards and extensive experience in fabrication plants.
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