FabTime Donates Cycle Time Management Software to
University of Arkansas
Menlo Park, CA. September 26, 2001 – FabTime Inc. today
announced that it had donated a license for its FabTime
cycle time management software to the University of
Arkansas. The software will be used by the Razorback
Electronics Manufacturing (REM) Lab within the Department
of Industrial Engineering.
Professor Scott Mason, director of the REM Lab said,
“We intend to use FabTime to support our research in
wafer fab scheduling. The software will give us a flexible
window into fab performance under different scheduling
policies, and help us to measure the impact of these
scheduling policies on cycle time and equipment
utilization.”
“We are excited to be working with the University
of Arkansas,” said Jennifer Robinson, Chief Operating
Officer of FabTime. “Although FabTime was designed
for real-time analysis of existing wafer fabs, the REM Lab
will be able to use it as a graphical tool for in-depth
analysis of simulated fab operations. I think that
Professor Mason and his students will provide feedback
that will help us to make the software even more useful
for this type of analysis in the future.”
A form for requesting more information about the software,
including university licensing options, is available at www.FabTime.com/software.htm.
About FabTime Inc.
FabTime Inc. is the first company to focus solely on
the challenging problem of cycle time management for
semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities. Unlike
traditional reporting tools, which were designed for
industrial engineers and IT specialists, FabTime’s
software is designed for hands-on use by fab managers. The
company’s website is located at www.FabTime.com.
About the Razorback Electronics Manufacturing Lab
The Razorback Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory (REM
Lab) is a research facility located in the Engineering
Research Center of the University of Arkansas. The lab is
dedicated to advancing the current state of the art in
semiconductor manufacturing scheduling research and to
preparing trained engineers to enter this challenging
field. The primary focus of research is on improving
manufacturing schedules to increase utilization of
equipment. The website for the lab is at www.uark.edu/~remlab/. |
