New video: Analytics for domain experts at STMicroelectronicsCOMPANY CONFIDENTIAL. DO NOT DISCLOSE.
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R&D expenditures should be seen as a strategic investment, says Matteo Patelmo, Director of Process Integration for STMicroelectronics. The more resources have to be invested in R&D, the fewer resources there are for production because, Patelmo says, “we are using the same pool of resources.” He also cites an Italian saying that roughly translates as “not spending money on discovering hot water.”
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The most effective way of achieving maximum value returns is by empowering a staff of highly talented experts in chemistry, materials science, engineers and physics – domain experts – to do their own statistical analysis. This kind of empowerment is what statistical enablement looks like.
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Patelmo explains that he would not “sponsor a solution where people just push a button without knowing what they’re doing.” Domain experts have to understand their data and be able to extract information themselves. It is essential, Patelmo says, that management trusts the information coming from R&D experts. “If you go and speak to management to take decisions,” he says, “you want to make sure that they understand that you’re credible.”
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Patelmo and Micciche developed a method, using Functional Data Explorer (FDE), to accelerate the process by which the team identifies and understands outliers which are, in essence, an early indicator of defects. There are two key innovations in this model: 1) What used to take 1 hour now takes 5 minutes and 2) “We are not throwing away any information.” This project was the subject of a 2024 Discovery Summit Europe paper they delivered in Manchester.
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“We have only a few users of JMP Pro, so this limits a bit the usage [of FDE],” Patelmo says, implying that it would be valuable for more of his colleagues to be able to access Pro.
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