SECS/GEM is the most widely used standard in Semiconductor Industry, this standard is adopted by chip manufactures all over the world. CIM-Computer Integrated Manufacturing System is used by high-tech chip manufacturing fabs not only to monitor the complete manufacturing process but is also used to control the whole manufacturing system.

Benefits of implementing CIM in any manufacturing unit are:

• It minimizes errors during the manufacturing process
• In turn, this brings down the production cost
• Improves products quality
• Improves delivery time

But the biggest challenge in the way of CIM implementation is that the as the manufacturing process is different, so not only the equipment being used for production are checked, but also the equipment from different manufacturers have different parameters. Thus this leads to CIM Automation Management even more difficult and complex.

As a standard business practice, when the suppliers supply Semiconductor Equipments, they also provide SECS/ GEM software interface to the fabs. But for Automation Software Integration, various equipment suppliers do not necessarily have a communication protocol.

Equipment suppliers at times do not open up communication protocol and do not provide interface software to semiconductor manufacturers, so semiconductor manufacturers have to build communication with the software in their own way, this leads to an increase in the programming expense and also requires additional time investment in this implementation process.

As there are different types of equipment for different manufacturers, only SECS/GEM can be used to comply with the management of the recipe as well as each different parameter. As the various recipe formats are verified by different suppliers, a lot of equipment encryption is difficult to be resolved, this leads to another exploitation by semiconductor manufacturers, referring to the SECS/GEM protocol. WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is an application framework exploited by Microsoft, which is used to support data communication. So WCF is also called as Windows Communication Development Platform. Integrating the original Windows communication mechanism, which is most commonly known as .NET Removing, Web Service and Socket, and merging the technology related to HTTP and FTP, WCF is the best practice to develop distributed applications on Windows platform.