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FabTime Press Release: FabTime Offers Free One-Hour Talk on Cycle Time Management to U.S. Wafer Fabs
San Jose, CA. October 4, 2005 - Are you kicking off a new cycle time
improvement effort? Do you want to ensure that your production personnel
are thinking about cycle time as they make operational decisions? Do you
use the best metrics for improving cycle time? FabTime is currently offering to
have Jennifer Robinson (our co-founder and cycle time management newsletter editor)
visit your site to give a one-hour talk on the factors
that influence cycle time in wafer fabs, and the best metrics for cycle time
improvement. This talk is a sub-set of our one-to-two day cycle time management
course, and is being offered at no charge to semiconductor wafers fabs located in the United States. The
talk will be paired with a one-hour demonstration of FabTime’s web-based
digital dashboard software, with emphasis on ways that the software supports
cycle time improvement efforts. The outline of the talk follows.
Fundamentals of Wafer Fab Cycle Time
- Introduction: Motivation for cycle time reduction and overview of typical fab cycle times
- Cycle time and utilization: Utilization is the biggest driver of cycle time. Other factors like downtime also impact cycle time via utilization.
- Cycle time and variability: Variability (in arrivals or process times) shifts the curve (of cycle time vs. utilization) up and to the left. Variability makes it impossible to achieve theoretical cycle time in any real fab.
- Cycle time and equipment downtime: Downtime increases cycle time 1) by increasing equipment utilization and 2) by increasing variability.
- Metrics: A review of metrics that are helpful for monitoring short-term cycle times.
If you are interested in scheduling a visit,
please contact us.
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. We believe that the cycle time
problems faced by wafer fabs are uniquely difficult and that our
customers will be well-served by a company that declares its
focus and sticks to it. To that end, we offer cycle time
management software and training, as well as a free email
newsletter dedicated to discussing best practices for fab cycle
time improvement (subscribe at www.FabTime.com/newsletter.shtml).
FabTime’s website is located at www.FabTime.com.
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