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Systematic Engineering Approach to Loss Prevention Fab Refurbishment

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
GREGORY S. HAZLETT, PE, Allendale Insurance, Seven Hills, OH, USA Read more >>

Retrofit or New Fab? Applying “Off-The-Shelf” Decision Making Tools for Improving Wafer Fab

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
DR. DANNY LAM PHD & DR. J. KANZ PHD, Fisher-Holstein, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ, USA Read more >>

Retrofit, Don’t Replace, Your Semiconductor Equipment

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management

A Not So New Approach to Substantially Reducing Capital
Equipment Expenditure in a Maturing Equipment Industry

TODD BRIX, Thin-Film Solutions Company, Livermore, CA, USA 

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Object-Based Control™

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
D. A. SMITH, ObjectAutomation Inc, Santa Ana, CA, USA Read more >>

MES Integration Assessment and Influences on IT Projects

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
MARK SUNTRUP & JOHANN DORNER, Fraunhofer Institute of Manufacturing Engineering
and Automation (Fraunhofer IPA), Stuttgart, Germany Read more >>

Intrinsic Equipment Effectiveness (IEE)

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management

An Addition to a Standard for Definition and Measurement of Equipment Productivity

P. PATRUNO, International Sematech, Austin, TX, USA 

 

 

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Extending the Life of Existing Fabs Through Optimization

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
CHARLESLYNN, PE, ADP Marshall, Tucson, AZ, USA Read more >>

Complete Software Integration for Fab-Plants – The Way to High Flexibility and Profit

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
J. REDMAN & GRADY BARRENS, Ergotech, Los Alamos, NM, USA Read more >>

Activity Based Cost Planning – Modeling Fab Refurbishment and Greenfield Facilities

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Fab Management
D. N. LAUBEN, Wright Williams & Kelly, Albuquerque, NM, USA
F. M. TRAYLOR, Wright Williams & Kelly, Austin, TX, USA Read more >>

The Development of Step and Scan

01 March 1999 | Edition 09, Lithography
DR HARRY SEWELL, SVG Lithography Systems, Inc., Wilton, CT, USA Read more >>