The factory of the future

Industry 4.0, which comprises networked and knowledge-intensive production, offers the opportunity of accelerating innovation and improving productivity and quality. Infineon Austria is implementing this as a pioneer in Austria.

Faster learning

Special facilities for manufacturing semiconductors - ion implantation machines - have been consolidated within a defined area of the Industry 4.0 pilot area in Villach. Here, various systems, such as energy consumption, intelligent product steering and mobile maintenance, are optimized incrementally and then rolled out for the remaining production. The use of sensor technology in combination with communication and data processing systems makes it possible for decisions to increasingly be taken autonomously during production.

Data for greater competitiveness

In future, the greater interlacing of development and production will enable new products or processes to be shown in dynamic simulations. These findings will be used to accelerate development processes and improve prediction accuracy and the quality of decision-making, which will in turn improve productivity. Suppliers and other sites will be increasingly integrated into the overall process.

Examples of the jobs of the future

Infineon Austria is carefully analyzing the changes that the digital revolution is bringing to production jobs. The training programs for apprentices and forepersons ("Apprenticeship 4.0") have been redesigned and targeted qualification measures have been introduced for existing staff.

New job profiles have been created: data scientists analyze large data volume and utilize the resulting information in cooperation with the relevant experts. Control center technicians monitor production with mobile control stands and steer the systems.