Welcome to Volume 25, Number 2 of the FabTime Cycle Time Management Newsletter. This is the first full newsletter issue since FabTime was acquired by INFICON (though I did send a Cycle Time Tip e-mail last month). Thanks for being here with us on this new stage in the FabTime journey. I’m happy to report that the FabTime team is doing well and has been made welcome by the team at INFICON.
This issue also includes an announcement about the upcoming Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference, as well as the usual highlights from my LinkedIn. Our software tip of the month is about creating a question for display in the FabTime charts menu from a chart. This month’s subscriber discussion forum has feedback from subscribers about box plots, standby-WIP-waiting time and test wafer ratios, as well as a question from me about cycle time challenges in assembly and test factories. I’m looking for input in the hope of writing about back-end factories in a future issue.
In our main article this month, we discuss the benefits of educating people on your team about the fundamentals of cycle time management. We share some history about how our cycle time class came to be, as well as an overview of the topics that we have chosen to include, and why. We close with some of our favorite things to teach, and a few success stories. We welcome your feedback.
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