Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Volume 60, Issue 18, Pages 5450-5467Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2021.1959954
Keywords
VLSI; wafer fab; simulation; scheduling; shop floor; batch machines
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This paper introduces a new approach to design shop floor control techniques for wafer fabs in the integrated circuit manufacturing industry. Results suggest that the performance of batch work centers can significantly affect the overall fab performance, and improvements can be obtained at the shop floor level via slack-based dispatching procedures.
This paper introduces a new approach to design and model shop floor control techniques for wafer fabs in the very large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing industry. The new model suggests the scheduling system should be selected by considering the type of work centres - whether they are sequential or batch - and the relevance of set-up times and capacity utilisation rate. The proposed scheduling model has been tested via a simulation model of the existing system, and by using data coming from the field, which leads to consider real-life performance to be close to the output of the simulation campaign. The main results point out that the performance of batch work centres - even though they represent a reduced portion of the whole set of work centres - can remarkably affect the performance of the whole fab. In addition, relevant improvements in term of throughput rate and capital productivity can be obtained also at the shop floor level via slack-based dispatching procedures. Results are particularly appealing because they can be implemented in a very short period and without significant infrastructural investments.
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