Simulate the costs of your MEMS devices

System Plus Consulting has published more than 100 reverse costing reports on MEMS, with detailed presentations available in the imicronews MEMS & Sensors reports section. Based on its expertise, System Plus Consulting has developed an efficient and easy-to-use cost simulation tool that can simulate most MEMS technologies from the main players. MEMS Price+ allows anyone from purchasing, marketing, costing and R&D departments to calculate the production cost and selling price of a wafer, die, packaged MEMS or SiP including an unlimited number of dies.

During the live session on 4^th June at 8:00am PDT, System Plus Consulting will demonstrate how to take advantage of MEMS Price+ to evaluate the cost of MEMS devices. The presentation will be based on a live demo with an actual MEMS example analysed by the consulting company.

System Plus Consulting’s speaker, Romain Fraux, is Project Manager for reverse costing analyses. Since 2006, Fraux has been in charge of costing analyses of MEMS devices, ICs and advanced packaging. He has significant experience in modeling the manufacturing costs of electronics components and has published more than 50 reverse costing reports on various MEMS devices including inertial, pressure, microphones or RF Sensors.

The MEMS Price+ live webcast will be moderated by Steven LaFerriere, Director of North America Business Development at Yole. Steven has more than 20 years of experience as a sales executive in the electronics marketplace, with an outstanding track record in solving customers’ problems.

The MEMS sector represented an $11.1bn business for silicon-based devices in 2014, according to Yole’s latest technology and market analysis, Status of the MEMS Industry (2015 Edition). The company predict this growth to continue, with the MEMS market exceeding $20bn by 2020. In the report, Yole also argues that that MEMS manufacturing on 300mm diameter wafers will be an important phenomenon in coming years. The move to 300mm production could impact the entire MEMS supply chain.

“The MEMS Price+ tool provides a cost model that comprehensively covers all the relevant parameters and technologies,” said Fraux.

“At Yole, we believe the first motivation will be technical requirements,” commented Jean-Christophe Eloy, President and CEO, Yole. “Then, MEMS companies will face economic constraints as they aspire to lower costs, increase volumes, and for foundries attract more customers. In this context, MEMS Price+ really adds value for MEMS companies as it allows them to easily determine manufacturing costs. Based on such analysis, they can then adapt their development strategy.”

“Detailed knowledge of MEMS or IC processes is no longer necessary to get an accurate cost” said Fraux. “The tool also offers possibilities for forecasting and simulating MEMS processes on wafer diameters up to 12"."