An historical approach to solve this problem has been that two companies who wish to communicate information decide mutually on a custom data format to be used between them. It is not unusual for a semiconductor company, whether merchant or fabless, to have product being built in a dozen or more factories around the world. Poor availability of manufacturing data from throughout the supply chain is a major barrier to improvement. Manufacturing data is typically not accessible either on a timely basis or in a readily usable form. The SMDX Standard was created to address this problem.
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