Collaborative hunting for nanoMeters, milliKelvins and microTesla’s
Speaker: Gerrit Oosterhuis, VDL Groep
High-tech/Semiconductor equipment requires technical features that are typically beyond everything that has been done before. The development departments of VDL ETG play a crucial role in bringing together functional design and manufacturing to enable the impossible. Technical examples will be presented to illustrate this: positioning stages, thermal control of substrates, electron microscopes.
- Guiding questions to answer in the presentation, with the technical examples as example:
- Why are these technically difficult features needed? What makes them so difficult?
- How do time-to-market requirements drive the current supplychain collaboration models?
- How does supplychain collaboration support the development process and how should it be organized?
- Why does a contract manufacturer need to have a 500+ development crew?
- How is contract manufacturing changing? What has been my personal role in this process?
