Meridionale Impianti

SATURN project

Innovation Agreement, Project #454 Smart Factory

Objectives

The SATURN project, launched on May 15, 2019, has revolutionized the manufacturing concept of the microelectronics industry in Italy through the following objectives:

The development of new intelligent production systems for the optimization of production processes
The creation of innovative systems for the enhancement of people
The development of new advanced solutions for the creation of micro-scale products

As part of the SATURN project, Meridionale Impianti has achieved the planned objectives by realizing:

Innovative systems for predictive maintenance in wafer handling
Monitoring systems and innovative automatic handling systems for semi-finished products
IoT solutions and collaborative robots
Innovative systems for the automatic management of reticles (storage, handling, and loading) and for the automatic management of production lots (buffering, loading, and unloading)

Impact

The project concerns technological solutions aimed at optimizing production processes and supporting their related industrial automation processes through advanced techniques of distributed sensorization of machinery, highly automated logistics management, and interoperability of related information systems, as well as through production technologies for products created with a new process step, all thanks to the use of advanced ICT technologies for the virtualization of transformation processes that enhance people in the factory.

In particular, the increase in digitalization and connectivity in factories has made it possible to bridge the existing gap between the real and virtual worlds and to improve production processes, allowing for the achievement of performance and efficiency goals unimaginable until now.

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    Duration

    48 months

    Start date

    15/05/2019