Not a prototype. A working system, running every day.
Most operational-software pitches are a slide deck and a promise. Archer is different: its engine already governs a real, high-throughput operation end to end. The semiconductor edition is that same proven core, pointed at your tools.
What Archer governs today, live.
Inside the Pennyworth Auctions warehouse, Archer runs operations from receipt to dispatch — the same disciplines a fab needs for tools and spares.
Live inventory & bin tracking
Every physical item located, attributed, and reconciled against the floor by a unique code — never by a loose catalogue grouping. The exact discipline a fab needs for spares.
Governed end-to-end workflow
Receipt → processing → dispatch runs as a controlled sequence with enforced data-integrity rules, not ad-hoc steps held together by spreadsheets and memory.
Complete audit trail
Every action timestamped and user-attributed. The traceability backbone a quality audit demands — already operating, not promised.
Exception-driven control
The system surfaces only what needs a human decision, and routes it with full context. Operators act on risk, not on routine review.
Visual verification
Image-at-cataloguing and confirm-before-fitment — the same capability that closes the wrong-part gap on unfamiliar tooling.
Hardened in real use
Built, broken, and rebuilt against the messiness of a live operation — not a demo environment. Edge cases are lessons already learned.
The Archer console — running here, in your browser.
This is the Archer Processor interface, semiconductor edition — not a screenshot. Switch tabs to move between bin/inventory, the workflow board, and the live audit trail. The same engine runs the Pennyworth warehouse end to end today; here it is configured for tools and spares.
Brought to semiconductor operations by people who ran them.
Archer reached your desk because an industry veteran saw what Archer does and told colleagues still in the business that they should look at it. That is the only kind of introduction that matters in this industry — capability recognised by someone with nothing to sell.
The questions a technical review always raises.
Do you write to our tools?
No. Archer ingestion is read-only. It never writes to a tool, controller, or MES. Reorder execution stays in your ERP — Archer recommends, your systems act.
Do our recipes or tool configs leave the fab?
No. For SECS/GEM, an on-premises collector forwards only the consumption-relevant variables on an allow-list. Process recipes never cross your boundary.
What about a brand-new tool with no history?
At first, with no usage history, we seed from OEM spares data and vendor reliability figures and flag those parts as provisional — vendor MTBF tends to run optimistic, so we stock conservatively until the tool’s own usage rate is observed. Usage-wear forecasting is held back until there’s a real rate to measure against; it sharpens as cycles accumulate. Honest seeding, not false precision.
Does it replace our ERP or CMMS?
No — it operates alongside them as an intelligence layer, consuming their data and returning structured control. Your systems of record stay exactly where they are.
How long to integrate?
Typical phasing: discovery (~4 weeks), integration and Tool-ID mapping (~6 weeks), baseline build, then live operation. We can start with a single tool family.
What do you claim — and not claim?
We forecast usage-wear and time-based parts, and right-size stock for random-failure parts to a service level. We do not claim to predict the exact moment of a random failure. Honesty is the point.