OLYMPIA COLLEGE, IPOH STUDENTS VISITS UNISEM

Recently, a total of 37 students comprising Engineering I.T and Business students had visited Unisem Bhd. Unisem is located at the Pulai Jaya Industrial Estate, about 20 km from Ipoh City. The students were accompanied by three lecturers - Mr Kelvin (Engineering), Ms Chan (IT) and Mr Thomas (Business)

Unisem Group is a global provider of semi-conductor assembly and test services for many of the world's most successful electronics companies. Unisem offers an integrated suite of packaging and test services such as wafer bumping, wafer probing, wafer grinding, a wide range of lead frame and substrate IC packaging including leaded, QFN, BGA and Flip Chip packages, and high-end RF and mix-signal test services.

The company's turn-key services include design, assembly, test, failure analysis, and electrical and thermal characterization. It has 3,000 employees in its workforce. Unisem, Ipoh is certified with ISO 9001:2000, QS 9000:1998, ISO 14001:2004 and ISO/TS 16949: 2002.

With approximately 10,000 employees worldwide, Unisem has factories located in Ipoh (Malaysia), Wales, (United Kingdom), Chengdu, (People's Republic of China), Batam (Indonesia) and Sunnyvale, California, (USA). The company’s headquarters is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

During the visit, the students were briefed on the products and services that Unisem provides to its customers in the training room by Mr Tony Cheong, from the HR Department. After the briefing, they were taken on a plant tour where they saw the entire manufacturing process of wafer chips, then to the Testing Department where testing and quality control of the chips are done and finally to Logistics where the chips will be shipped/air-flown to customers. Almost all of Unisem's products are exported to global customers in the US, Europe, China, Japan, etc.

After the tour, there was a short question and answer session, followed by presentation of token of appreciation to Unisem Bhd. for hosting our students to see for themselves how wafer chips are manufactured. 
We also took the opportunity to speak to Mr Tony about industrial placement opportunities for our engineering and IT students.

Overall, the students were very satisfied for the knowledge they have gained from the trip and look forward to such visits.