Business Benefits from Moxa
 
Turbo Ring recovery time < 300 ms and relay-out guard against system failure.
 
EDS-508 Series is Class 1, Div. 2 certified for use in hazardous environments.
 
UC-7408 Series is RealCOM+ enabled
- Remote communication and Real COM emulation
- Multi-host connection for redundant SCADA
 
EDS-508 Series can send a warning via e-mail or relay output when a user-configured exception is detected, providing system managers with real-time alarm messaging.
 
EDS-508 Series supports two power inputs for increased reliability.
 
The fanless design and high MTBF rating of the EDS-508 Series improve reliability.
 
 
Continuous Control and Monitoring Network for Semiconductor Manufacturing
 
The manufacturing of semiconductors is gaining importance in worldwide electronics-based markets. With the increasing demand from worldwide markets, a fortune is being invested in building plants with high end facilities that increase the efficiency, volume, and quality of manufacturing. As new technologies are phased in when constructing a state-of-the-art semiconductor plant, a well planned infrastructure network is important for establishing an efficient and secure manufacturing site.

Semiconductor plants are using industrial Ethernet solutions as the plant-wide network infrastructure. The fact that Ethernet is open protocol makes it relatively easy to integrate different systems with the network. The Ethernet network is used to connect a variety of main systems in the semiconductor plant to set up continuous control and monitoring from a remote control room. Using the remote control room approach helps facilitate daily operations and improves manufacturing efficiency. Semiconductor plants require a reliable, complete device networking solution that can connect all devices and systems to the Ethernet network. Moxa's products fulfill and exceed all of these requirements.
 
 
 
 
 
IC Foundry Chooses Moxa Solutions for Safety Monitoring
 
Introduction
A Taiwan-based global semiconductor corporation has a large specialty IC foundry that offers a range of process technologies. The products produced by the corporation include a wide range of ICs, such as 0.18 mm logic, mixed-signal, analog, high voltage, low power, CMOS RF, Flash, embedded memory, and bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) ICs. One of the plants produces approximately 55,000 8-inch wafers per month.

The semiconductor manufacturing process uses many chemicals and gases, some of which are extremely toxic. The gases must be carefully monitored and controlled to ensure the safety of plant workers and the people living in the vicinity of the plant. The data collected during monitoring is also used to prepare environmental reports for both local and government monitoring agencies. The corporation needed an extremely reliable network to collect and transmit all monitoring data to the plant's monitoring and control center. The network must be extremely reliable, with non-stop operation and quick recovery after failures.
 
System Diagram
 
System Description
The semiconductor plant uses a combination of continuous monitoring” gas monitors to detect toxic gases, such as ammonia, oxidizers, hydrides, mineral acids, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, and PFCs. The monitoring is done using CM4 gas monitors and system 16 gas monitors (four CM4 monitors combined), and gas cabinets that collect parameters such as temperature and barometric pressure. The gas monitors use digital signal data and special chemtapes to detect leaks in a matter of seconds. The complexity (the number of different gases that need to be detected) of a given location dictates the level of monitoring that is required. The locations are usually scattered throughout the plant, which means that distance, speed, reliability, and safety factors related to operating in a hazardous environment factor heavily into the network configuration.

This semiconductor plant chose a combination of Moxa products that includes several UC-7408 data acquisition embedded computers for remote communication with their SCADA system, and EDS-508-MM-CC 8-port managed Ethernet switches for the fiber backbone and communication between devices. The EDS-508 series is Class 1, Div. 2 certified for use in hazardous environments that contain volatile flammable liquids, gases, or vapors, allowing the switches to be installed in hazardous environments in the plant. The EDS-508's Turbo Ring feature supports a scalable, extremely reliable, always-on, high speed fiber backbone that supports quick recovery and long distance data transmission. Monitoring data collected throughout the plant is transmitted to the central monitoring center in real time, allowing for more reliable and efficient monitoring and data collection.
 
       
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