15.06.2009

Crystal-Clear Processes at Berliner Glas

By: Simone Schmickl

To boost its innovation speed and make way for integrated applications throughout its organization, the midsize high-tech company Berliner Glas implemented SAP ERP with support from the SAP solution provider Steeb Anwendungssysteme.

Berliner Glas specializes in the industrial use of light (photo: Berliner Glas)

According to Moore’s Law, the complexity of computer chips doubles every 18 months. To keep up this pace, chip manufacturers have to produce and microelectronically map ever-smaller structures.

Doing so requires light, as well as the optical technologies needed to harness it.

Berliner Glas specializes in the industrial use of light. For this midsize high-tech company and its customers in the key industries for semiconductors, biotechnology, medicine, industrial sensor technology, and information and communications technology, innovations are a central theme.

Berliner Glas develops its products according to specific orders, producing them first as prototypes and then in repetitive manufacturing at six production sites. This involves, for example, high-precision support surfaces for masks and wafers used in the lithographic process in the semiconductor industry.

For Berliner Glas, achieving the best possible harmonization of all its processes in sales, production, and purchasing is crucial. At the same time, order-based custom manufacturing requires a high level of flexibility – one the company’s business software must also reflect.

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