Simulation Based Cause and Effect Analysis of Cycle Time and Wip in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication
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Semiconductor wafer fabrication is perhaps one of the most complex manufacturing processes found today. In this paper, we construct a simulation model of part of a wafer fab using ProModel software and analyze the effect of different input variables on selected parameters, such as cycle time, WIP level and equipment utilization rates. These input variables include arrival distribution, batch size, downtime pattern and lot release control. SEMATECH DATASET which has the original actual wafer fab data is used for our analysis.
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