Founded in Poitiers, France in 2010, Agileo Automation specializes in software solutions for controlling production equipment in the semiconductor industry and connecting tools to the company’s manufacturing execution system (MES) using widely adopted industrial standards. OEMs work with a wide variety of clients, wafer sizes, and carrier types found in advanced packaging facilities. We provide flexible software solutions to their complex integration challenges, including specialized advice on selecting robotic systems.

We help start-ups embrace the world of automation for their fab equipment, a world unfamiliar to them, as they often come from the research lab community. They develop innovative and complex production equipment, but they have limited knowledge of automation technologies needed to integrate it into the operational environment of a real-world manufacturing wafer fab. We help them prepare the machines to connect with commercially available robots, manage the operator interface, integrate with the company’s IT systems like MES, etc., ensuring a much faster time-to-market.

Our team is used to developing software in parallel to production machines being designed and built. A key aspect of our value proposition is minimizing the time spent on software development within the critical path of overall equipment planning. We develop our own digital twins and decouple hardware and software. Some of this manufacturing equipment is shipped to the other side of the world where it not only has to be installed, but also has to be maintained. Our software solutions take this kind of use case into account from the very beginning to solve issues remotely, ensuring full confidence in the quality of the software modifications made.

PRODUCTS

• A²ECF Semi – A software framework for process or metrology equipment control, including EFEM (robotics loading platform) management.
• A²ECF Industry – An industrial automation framework to develop control software for automated and robotized production tools and connect them to the factory.
• Agil’GEM – A SECS/GEM and PV2 software library for semiconductor, electronics, and photovoltaic production equipment connectivity.
• Agil’GEM300 – A complete .NET/C# solution for GEM300 connectivity that handles complex GEM300 automation and provides a simple interface to connect a semiconductor equipment controller application to the factory host.
• Speech Scenario – To emulate the fab host and validate your SECS/GEM tool scenarios before shipping your equipment.
• Agil’Sorter – A complete software suite to control wafer sorters.
• E84 PIO Box – An interface between Speech Scenario and E84 passive equipment.

SERVICES

• Software development – Our core business is to develop software for industrial applications.
• Consulting SECS/GEM and GEM300 – Support in answering RFQs, SECS/GEM interface specification, taking part in technical exchanges with your customers.
• OPC-UA training – Designed and delivered by a certified expert.