At a glance
| Booth | P5323 |
| Country | DE |
| Website | www.hermos.com |
Company profile
HERMOS RFID has supported customers in RFID projects for over 30 years and operates as an RFID manufacturer specializing in RFID development and consulting for tailored solutions. The company combines sensors, automation, and IT systems from a single source and describes itself as a solution provider that improves customer processes with RFID products and expert advice. Its services include RFID consulting, digitalization project design, independent hardware selection and testing, customized RFID development, and software integration. HERMOS RFID provides worldwide support to partners and customers, including end customers and OEMs, and serves industries globally with a particular focus on semiconductor manufacturing. For semiconductor factories and equipment makers, it works as a manufacturer-neutral RFID partner with its own development capability and supports customized identification and automation projects worldwide. The company also supplies machine manufacturers that integrate RFID into production tools and works directly with chip manufacturers retrofitting existing fabs. Its semiconductor scope covers 150 mm, 200 mm, and 300 mm fabs, LF, HF, and UHF technologies, standard and customized configurations, and deployments in Asia, the USA, and Europe. HERMOS RFID describes its products as using RFID and sensor technology to meet demanding reliability and security requirements and offers readers and antennas across multiple frequency ranges.
Exhibits
For semiconductor fabs, HERMOS RFID provides RFID load-port readers, RFID WIP rack solutions, and RFID components for transport systems as a broad identification portfolio for production environments. The company uses these identification and automation solutions to support more transparent, efficient, reliable, and secure production processes, and it has described concrete RFID-introduction examples for 6-inch and 8-inch fabs. The HERMOS-LF and HF RFID handheld reader provides manual identification of cassettes, boxes, and FOUPs, uses a USB interface, adds integrated LEDs and acoustic feedback, and operates at LF 134.2 kHz or HF 13.56 MHz. The HERMOS LF and HF Single RFID Station identifies cassettes, boxes, and FOUPs at manual single workstations through an integrated reader, provides visualization on an integrated display, and supports LF 134.2 kHz or HF 13.56 MHz. The HERMOS Operator RFID Reader supports automatic RFID login for machine operators, connects through USB, is described as suitable for safety applications, and operates at HF 13.56 MHz. The HERMOS RFID trolley is a manual transport solution for 200 mm and 300 mm wafers with integrated RFID identification, an integrated display, radio communication with MES, and rechargeable-battery power. HERMOS LF and HF WIP Rack RFID Solutions monitor storage spaces in mesh shelving, can be retrofitted to common lattice racks, automatically identify cassettes, boxes, FOUPs and SMIFs at each storage location, and can optionally use an E-Ink display. The HERMOS LFM E84 RFID Reader performs automatic identification at the tool with direct communication to the transport system, using a four-channel LF reader and four E84 interfaces, with optional barcode-scanner and e-ink-display connectors at each antenna port. HERMOS LF and HF RFID readers for fabs support installations with multiple load ports, including a four-channel LF reader intended to reduce retrofit costs and optional I/O capability. HERMOS LF RFID Loadport Readers identify cassettes, boxes, and FOUPs at load ports and are available as complete kits with cable sets, antenna, and mounting plate; different protocols and mounting plates are intended to simplify replacement of other RFID suppliers, and different variants and compositions are available. Its RFID logistics solutions track goods between multiple factories and can add batteryless sensing for temperature, humidity, shock, and sealing, supporting worldwide tracking and sensing of semiconductor shipments. The HERMOS RFID DISPLAY TAG identifies a cassette, box, or FOUP and displays process and product information on a passive digital E-Ink display without its own power supply. The display tag is completely battery-free, integrates a passive RFID transponder, receives identification data and display updates passively through RFID, is described as maintenance-free, and is offered in different sizes with customized solutions available. HERMOS also describes customized RFID solutions for semiconductor factories together with energy-data management and reporting and modular, scalable frameworks. The LF hardware catalogue includes HERMOS RFID DISPL(((ID))), LFM load port reader, LFM load port reader Multiprotocol, LFM-LP-EtherCAT-Reader, Reader LFM KIT LP, LFM 6X Reader, LFM 4X Reader, LFM RFID Reader E84, RFID-Handheld LFP, RFID Shelf (LF) for Semiconductor Factories, RS485 Gateway, LF rod antenna S, LF rod antenna M, Block antenna M, LF rod antenna MX, and Block antenna L. The HF range includes HFM 6X reader, HFS display reader, RFID Shelf (HF) for Semiconductor Factories, HFS SL reader, HFS e-sign reader, RFID-Handheld HFP, HFS OEM module, HF block antenna, HF e-sign antenna, and HF frame antenna. The UHF range includes UFS Compact Reader, UHF display reader, UFC KANBAN roller conveyor reader, UHF compact antenna, and UHF mini antenna, with plug power supplies 12W listed among accessories. HERMOS also presents RFID reference examples including RFID use in a 200 mm wafer fab, an RFID Kanban Shelf, and Werner Lieb GmbH among its cited project references.
Capabilities and products
- RFID consulting
- RFID digitalization project design
- RFID hardware selection and testing
- customized RFID development
- RFID software integration
- semiconductor RFID load-port readers
- semiconductor WIP-rack RFID identification
- RFID components for transport systems
- LF/HF RFID handheld readers
- RFID trolley for 200/300mm wafers
- RFID reader with E84 interfaces
- inter-factory semiconductor RFID tracking with batteryless sensing
- battery-free E-Ink RFID display tags
- LF/HF/UHF RFID readers and antennas