Title :
Design of reconfigurable semiconductor manufacturing systems with maintenance and failure
Author :
Tang, Ying ; Zhou, MengCho
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Due to expensive, highly complex and time-consuming processes, semiconductor manufacturing systems have been given special attention. In Tang et al. (2000), a heuristic algorithm to design the reconfigurable automated production system was proposed. However, machine breakdowns and planned and unplanned maintenance were not considered. This paper extends that work and addresses the related design issues in reconfigurable back-end semiconductor manufacturing systems with failures and maintenance. Considering different conditions of machines, queuing network approaches are used to derive the throughput of machines to enhance the proposed virtual production line design methodology in which the throughput was originally computed using the deterministic-machine processing time. A priority is assigned to each idle machine according to its past performance and adaptive algorithms for reconfiguration are proposed.
Keywords :
integrated circuit manufacture; maintenance engineering; probability; queueing theory; adaptive algorithms; heuristic algorithm; idle machine; machine breakdowns; machine throughput; planned maintenance; queuing network approaches; reconfigurable semiconductor manufacturing systems; unplanned maintenance; virtual production line design methodology; Adaptive algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer aided manufacturing; Design methodology; Electric breakdown; Heuristic algorithms; Manufacturing systems; Production systems; Semiconductor device manufacture; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6576-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932609