Tymeline runs your platform program.
A new tool platform is mechanical, process, firmware and software on different cadences, in different tools, under different managers — all due at one customer fab on one date. Tymeline holds them to it. When one of them moves, the rest are re-planned before the insertion window is at risk.
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The insertion window doesn't move.
Every equipment maker is racing a platform into the AI-packaging and HBM build-out, into new fabs, with fewer people than two years ago.
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18–36 months
per platform program
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3–5 years
lost when a fab qualifies the competitor's tool instead
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6 → 16 weeks
how a “six-week” long-lead part reaches the platform PM today
Your stack stays. Tymeline runs above it.
Every system owns its own data. None of them owns the date.
- PLM
- Knows the change order. Doesn't know whether the change moves the beta date.
- ALM and Git
- Know the builds. Don't know that hardware moved and the release plan didn't.
- ERP and suppliers
- Know the purchase order. Don't flag the long-lead part that just went from 6 to 16 weeks.
- Demo lab
- Knows the runs. Doesn't know that process maturity won't reach qual by insertion.
- Customer email
- Holds the insertion window. Nobody connected it to any of the above.
Week 47 of a 30-month platform program.
- 14:08
The chamber supplier's delivery moves ten weeks.
- 14:08
The alpha build is re-sequenced. The beta-tool date at the customer is flagged at risk, with the exact dependency.
- 14:09
A decision packet goes to the platform GM.
- 14:11
The software release is re-planned to the new hardware date.
- 14:14
The GM approves with MFA. Updates run across PLM, Jira and ERP. The escalation to the supplier is drafted.
Nobody discovered it in a Thursday review.
The hard problems it solves on a tool program.
Not reports on them. The fix, worked out, approved and carried out.
- A long-lead part goes from 6 to 16 weeks
- The new date is tied to the build that needs the part. The alpha build is re-sequenced, the software release re-planned, and the changes made in PLM, Jira and ERP once approved.
- Hardware moves and the software plan does not
- The software release is re-planned to the new hardware date the same hour, so nobody builds against hardware that will not be there.
- Process maturity will not reach qual by insertion
- Demo-lab results are read against the customer's qual criteria. When the trend will not get there, Tymeline proposes the re-plan while there is still time to add runs.
- Several customer fabs, several insertion dates
- Each insertion is its own commitment, with its own customer and date. A shared part or team that puts two of them in conflict is settled before either moves.
Read-only until you say otherwise.
Tymeline reads PLM, ERP, Git and Jira. It writes only inside a scope you grant, after a named approval. Suppliers and customers see only what you choose to send them.