SEMI for the semiconductor industry

What is SEMI?
SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) is a globally-operating alliance in the semiconductor industry.

What does SEMI mean?

The safety working group, one of working groups under SEMI, identifies a set of environment, safety and health (ESH) performance parameters for semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturing equipment* (SME) and develops a guide SEMI for industrial evaluation application. So far, the compliance of SEMI is not only a basic requirement to comply with the national relative regulations, but also a necessity requested by the insurance company of semiconductor industry.

The SEMI guideline is a set of performance-based environmental, health and safety considerations for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

In detail, SEMI relates to the areas of electrical and mechanical engineering, fire protection, chemistry, radiation, noise, seismic protection and much more.

In association with other SEMI guidelines, such as, for example, SEMI S2 in the meantime represents the basic requirement of the leading semiconductor manufacturers, SEMI S8 Ergonomic engineering and SEMI S10 Risk assessment.

SEMI and European directives

SEMI is not directly compatible with the European directives such as the Machine Directive or the Low Voltage Directive. However, since far-reaching similarities with the European standards, for example EN 61010, do exist, a combination of both requirements is possible.

Thanks to the one-stop-testing concept of TÜV Rheinland Product Safety, it is possible to secure a large number of national and international certificates of conformity in a single process.