Abstract
The semiconductor and TFT-LCD industry played almost a main role as the major economical source in Taiwan. This is based on the impetus given by the "Two Trillion, Twin Star Industry' to the Taiwan government. To be in the lead in these two industries, government-university-industry invests lots of resources. Due to the combining of the AOI market with photonics technology, image processing technology, and automation, demand of market increases annually in Optical Inspection Industry. By the demand of system down-scaling and higher speed, AOI becomes a key point of competition in high-technology industry. In technology of IC and FPD inspection equipment, vendors have had a specific standard in such as optical technology, visual recognition technology, and electrical property testing. In recent years, Center for Measurement Standards of Industrial Technology Research Institute has given an impetus to job assignment and integration of upstream to downstream of AOI industry, and has given an impetus to interchange with information, technology, and talented people to enhance benefit of industrial cooperation. Due to the huge potential value of high-end optical inspection equipment which is the trend of quality control and local market is occupied by foreign companies, the target of this research is to lower cost of equipment from buyers and to enhance the market competition of local suppliers. The standard equipment of TFT-LCD optical inspection industry in Taiwan is already low in profit, thus Taiwan must have research in higher value added equipment to get rid of foreign competition and to create “Blue Ocean”. Through analysis of industrial ecology and SWOT, this research finds out related strategies to maintain, defend, strengthen, and hedge localization of high-end optical inspection equipment. Hopefully this research can provide suggestions of future development and strategy to TFT-LCD optical inspection industry vendors in Taiwan.