OptimalPlus Courses
Learning paths for OptimalPlus Solution
OptimalPlus users can explore the value our applications bring using the power of big data analytics. The following courses are available for OptimalPlus Semiconductor and Non-Semiconductor solutions users.
New user learning path
This path is for new OptimalPlus users starting to explore the NI OptimalPlus solution. It provides a basic review of its Portal+, Rules+, and Control Room+ applications.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
Gain familiarity with the NI OptimalPlus solution, as it provides a basic review of its Portal+, Rules+, and Control Room+ applications. |
Global Operations learning path
This learning path expands the introduction learning path and focuses on the Optimal+ Global Operations solution. Explore how to harness the power of big data analytics to improve yield and productivity with an integrated view into your global manufacturing operations and processes.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| OptimalPlus Global Operations: Basics | Get an integrated view of your global manufacturing operations and processes. Learn the basics of Portal+ and Rules+ applications, including how to execute a preliminary analysis on Portal+. Set up your first dashboard and rule to establish automated operational monitors. | OptimalPlus Fundamentals |
| OptimalPlus Global Operations: Beyond the Basics | Extend your basic skills of Portal+ and Rules+ applications and learn more about Portal+. Enhance your dashboard’s visualizations with conditional formatting and targets. Create a custom query configuring generic rules and detect outliers across entity types. |
We recommend this course to production, quality, and product engineers so that they automatically can identify and select specific data for a desired analysis, which can translate into a significant reduction in data-collection time and offers a tremendous opportunity to use the saved time to gain timely insights into hidden ROI opportunities and perform production issue root cause analysis.
| Course Names | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| Sequoia Essentials Course Overview | Sequoia is a flexible lite-code framework for manipulating, analyzing, and augmenting data from various data sources into actionable insights across your supply chain. The new Sequoia course is composed of several lessons and hands-on practices. It is advised that at the first milestone, course participants will undergo the first lesson in a self-learning method. The trainer will recap the content in the classroom. |
Global Operations Plus learning path
This learning path consists of Global Operations+ solutions courses. Learn how to implement Global Operations+ in a customer environment and address process-related issues and increase quality and reliability by killing or downgrading outlier units.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| Implement escape prevention rules to address test processes and operational issues that impact quality and lead to a test escape. Analyze data and manage the publication of validated escape rules to the test floor. | ||
| Using the Outlier Detection Solution Course Overview | Address fab-process-related issues to meet quality targets. Statistically analyze test data from multiple operations, utilizing proven PAT (Part Average Testing) algorithms to identify good outlier units. Power up OptimalPlus skills by learning how to execute Outlier Detection algorithms on test data using a pre-defined population. Explore how to integrate and combine these algorithms with a single rule "recipe" during multiple operations. Learn how to automatically switch units to different bins when the rule is applied in production. | |
| Adaptive Test-Time Reduction and NPI | Extend the capabilities of OptimalPlus using adaptive test simulation and new product introduction advanced capabilities. Learn to combine traditional test-time reduction techniques with innovative intelligent adaptive testing in an entirely automated process. Explore the NPI+ capabilities to analyze and chart the behavior of a new device based on parametric and functional measurements made across multiple processes, voltage, and temperature conditions. |
IT learning path
This path is recommended for those who support OptimalPlus users and its infrastructure. This program aims to identify and train customer IT system admin users to be the first point of contact for OptimalPlus IT Tier 1 queries.
Course Name | Description | Recommended Prerequisites |
| This fundamental training program provides foundational concepts, principles, and techniques to gain a solid understanding and proficiency in OptimalPlus IT : T1 basic support |
Additional Course Options
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OptimalPlus “Train the Trainer” Program
A training framework that turns Users into subject matter experts who can teach other users within their organization.
Exploring Data Interactively Using DIAdem
Learn to use the most important analysis, reporting, and data management features of the DIAdem environment.
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