IIE Transactions articles from February 2002

IIE Transactions archives from February 2002

IIE Transactions special issue on semiconductor manufacturing. (Preface).
February 1, 2002... The rapid technological developments which have increased the power of microelectronic components while reducing their cost has made integrated circuits an integral part of our daily lives. As a result, the semiconductor industry has become a...

Renewal approximations for the departure processes of batch systems.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** In this paper we consider three standard batch arrival/service systems and develop renewal process approximations for the inter-departure time squared coefficient of variations. The systems considered are: (i) batch arrival with...

Cycle time estimation for wafer fab with engineering lots.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Shu-Hsing Chung (*) Due to the interaction between the process complexity and equipment diversity in a wafer fab, it is rather difficult to estimate the material flow time of wafer lots. Facing competition, it is common for...

Using an optimized queueing network model to support wafer fab design.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Wallace J. Hopp (1) Mark L. Spearman (2) Sergio Chayet (3) Karen L. Donohue (4) Esma S. Gel (5) We develop an Optimized Queueing Network (OQNet) capacity planning tool for supporting the design of new and...

Semiconductor capacity planning: stochastic modeling and computational studies.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Robert M.E. Christie (1) S. David WU (2) This paper presents a multistage stochastic programming model for strategic capacity planning at a major US semiconductor manufacturer. Main sources of uncertainty in this...

Tool procurement planning for wafer fabrication facilities: a scenario-based approach.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** The rate of change in technology in the semiconductor industry has made the demand supply planning process extremely challenging for manufacturers. This problem is further exacerbated for tool procurement because the tools are...

Hybrid capacity modeling for alternative machine types in linear programming production planning.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Yi-Feng Hung (*) Processing by alternative machines is very common in today's manufacturing environment, especially in the semiconductor industry. Leachman and Carmon (1992) have presented a novel approach to model...

Shift scheduling for steppers in the semiconductor wafer fabrication process.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Sooyoung Kim (1)(*) Seung-Hee Yea (2) Bokang Kim (1) In this paper, an approach is proposed for scheduling stepper machines that are acting as bottleneck machines in the semiconductor wafer fabrication process. We...

Experimental study on input and bottleneck scheduling for a semiconductor fabrication line.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Young Hoon Lee (1) Jongkwan Park (1) Sooyoung Kim (2) In semiconductor manufacturing, the key production criteria are a short cycle time and the maximization of the production capacity. It is known that the...

Using in-line equipment condition and yield information for maintenance scheduling and dispatching in semiconductor wafer fabs.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** Thomas W. Sloan (1)(*) J. George Shanthikumar (2) Yield is one of the most important measures of manufacturing performance in the semiconductor industry, and equipment condition plays a critical role in determining...

Minimizing the total machine workload for the wafer probing scheduling problem.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... ********** W.L. Pearn (*) The Wafer Probing Scheduling Problem (WPSP) is a practical generalization of the parallel-machine scheduling problem, which has many real-world applications, particularly, in the Integrated Circuit (IC)...

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation. (Book Review).
February 1, 2002... Sunil Chopra Peter Meindl Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001, 457 pages, ISBN: 0-13-026465-2 With the growth of new products and markets, the supply chain systems supporting both manufactured products and services have become intertwined...