Penang, MY - Lighthouse award in Productivity

Anticipating 2.5x volume growth (43% CAGR) and stringent enterprise-grade quality requirements in high-mix, high-volume semiconductor back-end manufacturing, the site replaced labour-intensive operations with integrated 4IR use cases: lights-out automation, robotic material handling, a digital twin of its autonomous vehicle fleet, advanced production dispatching and machine- and deep-learning models for quality and reliability. The result was a 32% factory-cost improvement and 99% on-time delivery between 2017 and 2020.

Penang, MY - Lighthouse award in Sustainability

Anticipating 2.5x growth (43% CAGR) and tightening enterprise-grade quality requirements in a high-mix, high-volume, labour-intensive semiconductor back-end, the site moved from human-dependent manual manufacturing to integrated, connected and partly lights-out operations. It deployed smart factory and robotics on the shop floor, a digital factory twin, intelligent planning, advanced process control, and ML/DL quality methods — alongside large energy and water reductions — while upskilling 42% of the workforce with zero job elimination.