Our Focuses｜Green Product｜Digital Transformation
Green Product
Winbond has integrated our core innovative technology competencies with sustainable energy conservation and carbon reduction goals. Through green product design, digitalizing information systems, and improving production efficiency, Winbond can develop and optimize our products in various different areas, strictly controlling each step of our product process. Winbond promises to deliver the highest quality products to customers, minimizing the carbon emissions required to deliver our products into the hands of customers and consumers. While benefiting from the convenience brought about by technology, Winbond is lowing the impact to environment and helping the overall value chain effectively reducing carbon emissions.
Reduced product carbon emission by introducing Renewable energy
60
%
LPDDR4/4X saves standby power consumption compared to DDR4
90
%
Obtained the Taiwan Intellectual Property Management System Certification Class A for two consecutive years
TIPS
Digital Transformation
Since 2020, Winbond has fully promoted digital transformation, establishing the Digital Transformation Committee for Business (DTCB) and the Digital Transformation for Manufacturing (DTCM) to drive digital transformation in operations and manufacturing. The general manager regularly held meetings to review effectiveness; senior executives shared articles related to digital transformation weekly; the HR department invited external lecturers to provide relevant training and introduced internal collaboration platforms. The introduction of digital ransformation technologies and tools has become the core system of Winbond's intelligent operations.
Wafer Fab Intelligence - Digital Transformation
Through the transformation enabled by data science methods, we aim to become an intelligent factory with highly efficient production and quality control.
Utilizing Industrial AI (Artificial Intelligence) Technology to Promote Smart Manufacturing Application
Four Major Digital Transformation Systems | Explanation of System Usage | Achievements |
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| Flaws and Yield Analysis System | Consolidates measurement data from various module machines online, helping the research and development department analyze and make connections between data on development operations, analyzing and consolidating data with high efficiency. |
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| Automated Engineering Reports System | Rapidly and automatically looks up and consolidates measurement data online. |
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| Digitalize and Standardize Online Measurement and Electrical Data | Assists Winbond employees in adjusting process module conditions in a timely manner based on the data to meet requirements. |
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| Memory Element Reliability Analysis System | Effectively consolidates and organizes massive amounts of meas- urement data, discovering the optimal operating parameters for use in product CP/FT testing. |
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Establishing a Carbon Accounting System to Create a Green Future and Achieve Net Zero Emissions
Facing the increasingly severe challenges of climate change, countries around the world actively promoted carbon reduction policies, and enterprises faced multiple pressures from international regulations and internal and external demands. Achieving "Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050" had become a global consensus, and accurate carbon emission data management was the foundation for formulating effective emission reduction strategies.
To accurately grasp product carbon emission data, Winbond extended the concept of accounting systems to carbon data tracking with industry-leading innovation, developing a standardized and automated carbon accounting system for big data collection. This system realized the automation and standardization of carbon emission data collection, implemented product carbon inventory and carbon footprint systems, and provided in-depth analysis to assist in formulating product carbon emission reduction strategies. Through this well-constructed carbon accounting system, Winbond gradually moved towards the goal of net zero carbon emissions.
Investing in Carbon Data Management: The Cornerstone of Achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions
The calculation and management of carbon emissions were the first steps in corporate carbon reduction actions. However, carbon data collection faced many challenges, including:
- Large data volume
- Complex calculation method
- Lack of real-time information
To overcome these challenges, Winbond extended the concept of accounting systems to carbon data tracking, developing an automated and standardized carbon accounting system that realized the automation and standardization of carbon emission data collection and provided in-depth analysis.
Establishing Winbond's Carbon Accounting System: Leading Green Transformation
Winbond's carbon accounting system aimed to comprehensively track and manage corporate carbon emissions, covering Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emission sources, and provided data analysis and emission reduction strategy recommendations. The carbon accounting system was divided into three major sections:
- Carbon Inventory System
- Carbon Footprint System
- Net Zero Emission Path and Management System (Under construction)
Supply Chain Cooperation
Scope 3 carbon emissions accounted for the largest proportion and were also the biggest challenge in carbon accounting. Scope 3 carbon emissions mainly came from the supply chain, so the carbon footprint data of supply chain partners was the cornerstone of carbon reduction. However, the carbon accounting system also faced some challenges in supply chain management:
- Data completeness
- Data accuracy
- Supplier participation
- Technical and methodological differences
- Reporting frequency
To address these challenges, Winbond actively cooperated with supply chain partners to promote the construction of a green supply chain, jointly moving towards the goal of net zero carbon emissions.
Future Outlook
The carbon accounting system is an important tool for enterprises to achieve the goal of net zero carbon emissions. To fully utilize its functions, enterprises need to continuously improve system functions and overcome challenges in data collection and management. At the same time, enterprises need to closely cooperate with supply chain partners to jointly promote the construction of a green supply chain to ultimately achieve the goal of sustainable development. In the future, Winbond will continue to improve the carbon accounting system and actively romote it to supply chain partners, jointly creating a green value chain and contributing to the goal of sustainable development.