Managing, measuring and improving equipment capacity and overall equipment efficiency (OEE) using iPLUS

Author

Killeen, Della ; Gaboury, Peter ; Paccard, Denis

Author_Institution

STMicroelectronics, Phoenix, AZ, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

28

Abstract

STMicroelectronics has implemented the iPLUS system-Improved Productivity through Learning, Understanding and Solving-to introduce, measure, and finally improve overall equipment efficiency (OEE). The iPLUS system merges equipment information from the automation system with operator and lot information from the CAM system to calculate very precisely the availability efficiency, the rate efficiency and the equipment capacity. The measurements are done in real time and the feedback is directly given to the operators and engineers. This paper introduces the iPLUS system, discusses calculation of overall equipment efficiency, shows how we have implemented iPLUS in our fabs, details how each fab group uses iPLUS to manage productivity and discusses opportunities for improvement found using iPLUS

Keywords

CAD/CAM; computer integrated manufacturing; electronic data interchange; flexible manufacturing systems; integrated circuit manufacture; integrated circuit measurement; production engineering computing; CAM system; OEE; automation system; equipment availability efficiency; equipment capacity; equipment information; equipment rate efficiency; iPLUS system; improved productivity through learning/understanding/solving; lot information; operator information; overall equipment efficiency; productivity; real time measurements; Automation; CADCAM; Computer aided manufacturing; Degradation; Electronics industry; Fabrication; Feedback; Investments; Productivity; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Manufacturing Symposium, 2001 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6731-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSM.2001.962906

Filename

962906