Case Study: APAC Electronics Manufacturer achieves higher yield and reduced downtime with Splunk

How Splunk Software Applies Real-Time Analytics to the Internet of Things

A $10 billion APAC electronics manufacturer operating a semiconductor fabrication facility was struggling with rising operating expenses, increasing defect rates and lengthy, opaque root-cause analysis across dozens of automated processes. The company needed an integrated solution providing real-time complex event processing (CEP), a big-data platform, statistical management and industrial visualization; an internal team estimated a year and 20 specialists would be required to build the prototype.

A four-person Splunk team delivered a working proof-of-concept in three months and the customer deployed Splunk to handle all four functions in one platform. Splunk provided near-real-time CEP, full-fidelity data indexing, statistical analytics, visualizations and automated alerts that tuned MES rules, producing immediate ROI: deployment needed only one‑fifth the staff of alternative approaches, increased yield and uptime, reduced defects and operating expenses, and generated millions of dollars in additional profit.