ErgoTech provides software solutions for the semiconductor industry. These products are designed to link factory floor information to manufacturing processes and enterprise-wide operations using Java™ and XML technology.

We provide a Java-based SECS library as well as a complete tool-chain for graphical creation of host or equipment SECS applications. Our TransSECS software is gaining popularity among OEMs who need to quickly and cost-effectivly add SECS interfaces to their equipment. ErgoSIS and ORGi are special hardware products to provide off-the-shelf SECS communication solutions.

TransSECS™

Built on our SECS library is our SECS/GEM configuration tool, TransSECS. TransSECS allows complete Java intefaces to be created graphically in a drag-and-drop environment. This includes a ”tree” editor for defining SECS messages and the ability to link from messages to sources of information. Our experience in factory automation means that TransSECS will link to almost any of the standard automation pacakges or controllers in the industry. We provide a Java interface to OPC (OLE for Process Control), a standard widely used by SCADA, PC Control, and other factory automation applications, and direct interfaces to PLCs from Modicon, Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron, Siemens and others. Equipment builders can finally use standard automation components and easily add a SECS interface. We also provide a TransSECS product which deploys as a SECS OPC Server.

TransSECS also provides the ability to create snooping solutions, sitting between the host and the equipment watching the information in SECS messages as they pass through (the Voyeur link), or you can choose to have TransSECS handle some of the messages from either the equipment or host, perhaps providing translation of different messages -- modifying data and passing it on. If you need more SECS interfaces, then you need an ORGi. You can simply build multiple SECS interfaces for Y-tap or similar. You can bring multiple SECS interfaces into one, or split one one into multiple, all graphically.

ErgoSIS™

ErgoSIS is the “SECS Information System” and APC Portal. ErgoSIS is ready-to-run as a SECS monitor that can be added to a fab network as a transparent pass-through without any network reconfiguration.  It can also provide SECSI-HSMS conversion and be extended with the ErgoSIS TransSECS™ Toolkit. It is delivered installed on a small dual-Ethernet Linux-based embedded hardware platform.

This is a product designed for use in semiconductor fabs to enable advanced process and equipment control, E-Diagnostics, fault detection, recipe management, and message logging and snooping, among other applications. The system provides Web-based SECS message monitoring and logging for off-line analysis.  With the extensions provided by the ErgoSIS TransSECS™ Toolkit, ErgoSIS provides links to Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL and a large number of other databases.  It also provides direct links to standard factory automation products through Windows™ OPC servers as well as the ability to collect and modify data in real-time controllers such as PLCs or other high-speed add-ons.

Java SECS Library

ErgoTech is the leading provider of Java SECS interfaces and interfacing tools for the semiconductor industry. Our flagship product, which forms the basis of our other systems is our pure Java implementation of SECS and GEM. This provides a Java programmers interface for both equipment and host applications.

This library is used by equipment builders and fabs worldwide. It's the SECS interface underneath some products from big-name companies in the Semiconductor industry. If you need to program a Java interface for SECS then our SECS library will provide what you need, but if you want to avoid some or all programming then TransSECS could be the solution.