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e-Emphasys makes complex real time integrations a reality for Tokyo Electron.

The company

Tokyo Electron is one of the world's leading companies in the semiconductor industry. It has nearly 80 offices in 16 countries that engineer, manufacture, sell, and service wafer-processing or semiconductor production equipment (SPE), as well as flat panel display (FPD) equipment. As the world market share leader in several product lines, TEL plays a key role in the evolving global semiconductor industry. Additionally, TEL provides customers with superior electronic components and computer networks from around the world. Technological expertise, combined with creativity and progressive thinking has earned TEL an excellent reputation with customers around the world.

The Business Case

Collaborative commerce, e-Business, Automation and Process improvement all depend on a company's ability to better integrate people, processes and systems. Improving integration is one of the biggest issues facing business today. Tokyo Electron was facing exactly this challenge when it decided to integrate its existing Baan enterprise solution with the i2 factory planner. The company also wanted to integrate its product document management solution, Windchill from PTC to provide a collaborative environment which would enhance performance levels.

Koike-san of Tokyo Electron Limited explains: "At Tokyo Electron our manufacturing processes are very complicated. The company's bill of materials is probably the largest in the industry. Previously we were using three separate technologies to integrate these systems. This was no good and we realized pretty quickly that performance would be poor."

Koike-san continues: "Baan put us in contact with e-Emphasys to help performance issues in producing our bill of materials. e-Emphasys carried out essential performance tuning which was realized in three weeks. During this time we discussed our integration issues at which point they suggested the appropriate Integration framework that will fit our requirements".

The Solution

e-Emphasys Developed a robust architecture that involves transfer of static and dynamic data between BaanERP and Factory planner and Windchill in a three way interface. The entire solution is developed using Java and iBaan OpenWorld to ensure that the solution is Platform Independent.
The integration relies on the Java and iBaan OpenWorld framework for faster performance. "Net Changed" data is transferred from BaanERP to Factory Planner and during successive runs of the interface. This prevents network traffic and improves performance.

Milind Bagade, CEO, e-Emphasys Technologies explains the increasing need for advanced integration tools: "We have found that many companies we work with have chosen applications to support specific business functions. They have got legacy systems that they can't easily replace, but want to create a responsive, e-enabled company that its customers, suppliers and employees will appreciate. e-Emphasys worked with Tokyo Electron to provide a universal integration framework enables companies to achieve this."

According to Mr. Masami Miyakoshi, TCDP Manager, Tokyo Electron "e-Emphasys joined our team to implement the integrations between Baan / I2 and Windchill PDM. Their efforts were excellent and that they finished these integrations very efficiently and quickly. e-Emphasys team works very hard. Hard work for them means practically 24 hours weekdays and weekends. Their skill level is very high and we are very satisfied with their performance and with the result of their integrations."

The triangular Interface provides easy and transparent integration between BaanERP, i2 Factory Planner and Windchill.