Industrial Engineering Consultant - Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc

Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc. provides software products and consulting services to assist our clients in making better business decisions. The focus of our efforts is to assist our clients in improving the productivity of their manufacturing operations while reducing their per-unit costs. We also provide strategic assistance by creating virtual representations of their future-factories to help them manage risk and maximize return on assets and shareholder equity. Our clients tell us that they have saved millions of dollars from a single use of our software tools and methodologies.

Industries, like individuals, experience growth and maturity. With maturity comes a new set of objectives and the resources to reach even loftier goals. In the face of increasing competition and tightening margins, today's high technology companies are looking for ways to reduce their financial risk, contain costs, improve productivity, and reward shareholders.


Recognizing these trends has sustained Wright Williams & Kelly's (WWK) rapid growth over the past five years. NOW, WWK has taken another bold step toward ensuring our customers' success. WWK has integrated the Industrial Engineering resources of the world's leading high technology factory design firm and WWK's operational modeling software expertise into a powerful new resource.


At the NEW WWK, we understand that what we provide is more than software and engineering resources. We provide ANSWERS to your most important manufacturing questions. Our customers demand RESULTS and we provide the breadth of solutions they need to succeed.


WWK provides the industry's standard operational modeling suite: cost of ownership (TWO COOL®), process cost analysis (PRO COOL®), cost and resource evaluation (Factory Commander®), and capacity analysis and discrete event simulation (Factory Explorer®).


From analyzing a single process step to optimizing a full factory to complete Industrial Engineering (IE) outsourcing. WWK can support your exacting demands on-site, worldwide. WWK provides results in industry standard formats and commercially available solutions that are available to both our customers and their suppliers.


So whether you need a software tool or on-site engineering resources, CALL Wright Williams & Kelly, your key to continued growth.





Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc.
6200 Stoneridge Mall Road • 3rd Floor • Pleasanton, CA 94588 • Tel 925-399-6246 • Fax 925-396-6174
Email: info@wwk.com



NEED FOR THE COMPANY'S PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
WWK is indisputably the leading software developer for Cost of Ownership modeling programs in capital intensive industries. Cost of Ownership is a key metric in the semiconductor industry because it provides a means to model future semiconductor manufacturing processes before companies invest in new fabs, fab refurbishment, or technology migration. Cost of Ownership modeling provides detailed and objective analysis for decision making regarding equipment selection, materials use, and process sequence design. The Company has also introduced factory software models which, in addition to modeling Cost of Ownership, provide a comprehensive array of capacity and profitability analyses on full factory operations and layout. The sophisticated scope of these programs embraces multiple product output and multiple process lines. Simulations are precision tuned by probability and distribution curve analyses.


The need for the Company's products is fostered by significant economic, technical, and opportunity factors present in high technology industries.


Risk Management: New semiconductor fabs now cost over $2 billion with next-product generation fabs projected to cost $3 billion. Eighty percent of the investment cost is related to the manufacturing process and production equipment. There are over 900 fabs in operation worldwide with a projected 100 new $2 billion-plus fabs to be built by 2010. Semiconductor manufacturers have turned to equity partnerships with competitors, suppliers, and governments to raise the required capital and manage the enormous investment risk. They can optimize their investment potential and manage operational risk by adopting advanced capabilities in manufacturing design. Among these advanced capabilities are predictive software products that simulate and model risk, productivity and profit factors. WWK is squarely at the forefront of this trend.


Industry Growth: Semiconductor industry sales have grown at a double-digit CAGR worldwide since 1980. Most developing countries have identified electronics as a "pillar" industry worthy of aggressive government support. Global semiconductor manufacturing leadership is viewed by U.S. officials as vital to America's economic base and defense strategy. Continuous growth and technical advancement drive the construction of new fabs featuring expanded capacity with more sophisticated, costly processes. Older technology in the existing installed fab base eventually becomes a commodity often before the fab investment has been recouped. In either event, WWK's productivity measurement and enhancement software helps management decide which technology, at what capacity, and at what return.


Technical Change: In the semiconductor industry, a new generation of devices is produced approximately every two to three years. Each generation has four times the number of transistors as its predecessor. This increased density enhances the product's computational speed, memory capacity, or logic functions exponentially. Intel's 286 microprocessor for personal computers, for example, had its debut in l982. The next generation 386 was introduced in 1985. Similarly, the 486 was introduced in 1988, the Pentium in 1992, and the Pentium Pro in 1994. Each generational advance in product technology requires semiconductor manufacturers to spend 50% more in R&D than was spent on its predecessor. Product technology also drives investment costs upward as increasingly more sophisticated manufacturing capabilities are needed which renders new equipment technically obsolete in three years or with each new generation of product. International technology roadmaps project this sequence to extend well into the next decade. The pressure of relentless technical change and investment escalation has given high visibility to risk and productivity issues. WWK's predictive software products are invaluable decision-enhancing tools for management in this complex and dynamic environment.