Scott Rothenberg
Managing Director, Automation Products Group, Applied Materials, Inc.
Scott is a Managing Director at Applied Materials, currently serving as the head of worldwide sales for the Automation Products Group. His global team is responsible for promoting and supporting SmartFactory® software automation solutions with customers in more than 25 countries, within the semiconductor, display, solar, battery and electronics industries. As part of the APG executive leadership team, he has been deeply involved in partner development, M&A, and product strategy.
Scott has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and started his career selling CMP pads and slurries to hard disk, semiconductor wafers, and device manufacturers in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
He has been with Applied Materials for the past 27 years, working within a variety of business groups, including semi and solar services, subfab, and for the past 10 years automation software. Scott’s undergraduate studies were in Economics and Chinese, and he has an MBA from Berkeley. He lives in Northern California.
Presentation Title
Evolution of Smart Manufacturing: Lessons for India’s Leap Ahead to Advanced Factory Automation
Abstract
While elements of automation have been found in certain manufacturing industries for hundreds of years, what we now refer to as Smart Manufacturing has become widely available only in recent years due to tremendous advances in computing power, advanced sensors, and robotics. The semiconductor industry has been the leader in developing and advancing smart manufacturing technologies.
Factory automation in the semiconductor industry has evolved from fabs writing their own proprietary software programs, to the current best practice of deploying commercial, fully integrated, out-of-the box Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) systems that can operate factories in "lights-out" full automation mode.
New entrants to semiconductor manufacturing, such as India, have the opportunity to benefit from decades of investment in the development of Smart Manufacturing capabilities by including out-of-the-box fully integrated CIM technologies into their factories from the beginning, thus improving time to market while optimizing yield, cost and output.