23 January, 2020
Our excellence in the test and instrumentation landscape stems from our understanding of diverse markets, industries and technologies. This knowledge, along with our ability to solve system-wide integration and modularity challenges, positions Benchmark as the industry expert in addressing our customers’ most advanced challenges.
Benchmark has also made significant investments in its Precision Technologies manufacturing capabilities. This allows us to specialize in highly-complex critical components and assemblies that are typically beyond the technical expertise of our competitors. Our key differentiators include:
Industry Knowledge
Our tremendous depth and breadth of expertise is critical to addressing our customers’ most technically demanding product requests. We handle on-site support and provide in depth collaborative design for manufacturability engagement. As the industry evolves to ever-shrinking feature sizes, and now into vertical architecture, Benchmark supports each development node through close collaboration with our customers to achieve micron-level precision tolerances and rigorous cleanliness requirements.
Cultural Understanding
Local support for research and development through our AMP cell provides rapid prototyping capability and early supplier engagement that are critical to ensure ready access to the necessary supplies to produce robust products at the lowest total cost. Benchmark’s geographic footprint is designed to be both close to customer primary development sites and located in regions near volume production, offering the greatest total customer value.
Ongoing engagement with key customer contacts and periodic, formal reviews of technology roadmaps ensure that Benchmark capabilities meet customer needs for precision, materials and cleanliness.
To drive quality and ramp up production quickly with identical results, Benchmark has adopted a copy exact culture. Our Statistical Process Control (SPC) methodology on critical-to-process key characteristics includes real-time monitoring and analysis to ensure process variation is minimized.
Improved product quality and reliability is also ensured through our Full Lifecycle Management services that ranges from rapid prototyping to new product introduction, volume production and after market spares support.
In today’s market, customers require greater reductions of size, weight and power (SWaP) as demand for microelectronics increases. Wafer fabrication is one of the most complex manufacturing processes in the industry today, and ultra-thin wafers have compounded that complexity immensely.
To meet the requirements for micro and next-gen electronics, customers need to ensure the strategic partners they engage with have deep technical experience, as well as in-house equipment and capabilities to ensure high reliability, reduce cost and accelerate time-to-market.
Benchmark has more than 30 years of experience in the Semi-Cap market, amassing key innovations and technical resources to excel in wafer processing capabilities. Our experience also contributes to our mastery of the wafer processing environment.
Our key capabilities support:
Solar, as well and other sources of alternative energy, have been significant emerging markets for a number of years. As more companies invest in sustainability efforts, technical expertise and cost-effective capability in solar photovoltaic technology will remain in high demand. Benchmark has experience manufacturing the capital equipment required for solar wafer processing and solar cell manufacturing, which requires thermal processing steps including diffusion, annealing, deposition and coating of the solar cell. Our customers' products focus on improvement in wafer surface quality, cell junction quality, cell passivation quality and cost-effective precision metallization.
Benchmark is proud to be an industry pioneer in display applications. Our knowledge in Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology enables us to provide our customers with the highest quality display solutions available. At Benchmark, we understand the display challenges our customers face, and this deep understanding allows us to serve as the go-to partner for customers seeking top-notch solutions.
Whether customers are looking for higher resolution, faster refresh rates, flexible or curvature form factors or need a display that can survive rugged environments, our breadth of experience allows us to deliver superior products for our customers’ unique needs. Benchmark is the industry leader in turning complex issues into innovation, and our display capabilities give us the leverage to far exceed customer expectations. No matter what type of display problem a customer is facing, Benchmark has the solution.
We offer complete engineering services in wafer, solar and display fabrication including design, prototyping, integration, validation and test, precision automation and tooling. Benchmark’s global network of design and engineering facilities provides us with a keen insight into our customers' local markets.
Our technology building blocks enable Benchmark to excel in large-scale metal form and large-scale clean room capital equipment manufacturing. We also excel at manufacturing services ranging from high precision machining and grinding to electron-beam welding to rapid prototyping. With our flexible engagement model, we adapt our manufacturing process to meet our customers' specific needs.
Precision Technologies is well equipped to handle the most complex, heavy metal projects including ones that address flatness requirements, parallelism, or parts that must hold a vacuum.
The RF High Speed Design Center is ready to meet the upcoming challenges in the electronics market, from increases in hardware outsourcing to size, weight, and power (SWaP) restrictions on future commercial and military designs.
Benchmark offers comprehensive IoT solutions and services utilizing our engineering expertise, manufacturing legacy and trusted ecosystem partners.
