- By Renee Bassett
- September 06, 2024
- Feature
Summary
Semiconductor manufacturer Absolics enables real-time manufacturing management and product development with a cloud-based information architecture from Solace.
The event-driven solution that Solace brings to Absolics will increase operational efficiency and competitiveness "by bringing data movement into real-time." Absolics will be able to make faster and more well-informed production decisions and improve quality assurance by using Solace, which provides a comprehensive way for organizations to stream, integrate and govern events from where they are produced to where they need to be consumed. Established enterprises worldwide trust Solace to modernize their application and integration landscape; enable time-sensitive applications and processes at scale; and create seamless digital experiences.
Absolics built a cloud-based event mesh using Solace event brokers, seamlessly integrating and event-enabling its manufacturing, management and product development applications. An event mesh is an architecture layer that allows events from one application to be dynamically routed and received by any other application no matter where these applications are deployed (whether no cloud, private cloud, public cloud). This layer is composed of a network of Event Brokers. Event brokers are a modern form of messaging middleware, which are designed to move events across the distributed enterprise.
Absolics has been in the news recently as one of the companies selected by the Biden-Harris Administration to receive up to $75 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act, as part of its program to ensure the United States is a global leader in every part of the semiconductor supply chain. The South Korean company with technology developed in partnership with Georgia Tech broke ground in 2022 on a giant new semiconductor materials factory east of Atlanta, signaling Georgia’s first foray into computer chip manufacturing.
Absolics is a semiconductor packaging provider 80.6% owned by SKC. The company invested $240 million in its 12,000-square-meter facility in Georgia, aiming to start mass production in the second half of 2024. The company's glass substrates promise to be a game changer, increasing the performance and energy efficiency of chipsets. “We are building a factory that can make 4,000 glass substrates per month,” said Absolics CEO Oh Jun-rok in 2023. “Three years after the completion of the first plant, we will start constructing the second one right next to it which will have six times more capacity.”
An event mesh gives enterprises the ability to support event-driven architectures from the smallest of microservices deployments to extending applications to hybrid cloud in a governed, performant, robust, secure, well-architected manner. It provides the ability to integrate legacy applications, data stores, modern microservices, SaaS, Iot and mobile devices dynamically and all in real-time. An event mesh gives application developers and architects a foundation on which to build and deploy distributed event-driven applications wherever they need to be built and deployed.
Solace enables an event mesh with PubSub+, our advanced event brokers. You create an event mesh with Solace by deploying PubSub+ in any/all your environments (public/private clouds, on premises), and then connecting them, at which point all applications, microservices, cloud services, SaaS, iPaaS and legacy systems connected to an event broker in the mesh will be instantly and continuously connected with one another.
An event mesh built with Solace provides native support for multiple open protocols and APIs, providing unparalleled flexibility to develop modern, cloud native applications. PubSub+ provides native support for popular open standard protocols and APIs, including REST/HTTP, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, Websocket and JMS, so developers don’t have to worry about how their app or microservice will communicate with other apps using different protocols/APIs.
Semiconductor manufacturer Absolics is using Sothe lace PubSub+ Platform to establish a real-time information flow across all enterprise applications in its U.S. factory in Covington, Georgia. Seeking a more modern solution to serve as the backbone of its integration system, Abolics chose Solace for its robustness and scalability. Specifically, Absolics built a cloud-based event mesh using Solace event brokers, integrating and event-enabling its manufacturing, management and product development applications.
With Solace, Absolics is now able to manage its entire API and events environment through one integrated solution, delivering a more automated data streaming and management process with high throughput and no downtime. By enabling accurate, real-time data transfer between applications across distributed systems, Absolics officials say the company is now positioned to make faster and more well-informed decisions. The availability and asynchronous distribution of critical business information and events also empowers it to dramatically improve quality assurance.
“Embracing an event-driven approach to application integration is helping Absolics strengthen its position as an industry leader by increasing its operational efficiency and competitiveness in the market,” said Danny Papadatos, regional VP Middle East, Asia Pacific and Japan, Solace. “Streaming, connecting and governing an ever-increasing amount of data has been a challenge for modern enterprises. We take great pride in helping Absolics event-enable their information to deliver the real-time operational performance they demand to remain successful.”
About The Author
Renee Bassett is chief editor for InTech magazine and Automation.com, and publications contributing editor for ISA. Bassett is an experienced writer, editor and consultant for industrial automation, engineering, information technology and infrastructure topics. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and English from Indiana University, Bloomington, and is based in Nashville.
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