• DocumentCode
    1886091
  • Title

    Improving cycle time through managing variability in a DRAM production line

  • Author

    Majorana, A. ; Iuliano, Guglielmo

  • Author_Institution
    Texas Instrum., Avezzano, Italy
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    6-8 Oct 1997
  • Abstract
    The authors describe the process adopted to improve productivity in terms of cycle time decrease in a DRAM wafer fab (AMOS, Texas Instruments Italy). In order to arrange the structural and managerial factors influencing the cycle time of products, an integrated approach aimed to contain the variability is outlined. Such a process generated a 30% cycle time reduction in 1996 with a remarkable impact on the operating performance of the factory
  • Keywords
    DRAM chips; integrated circuit manufacture; production control; DRAM production line; cycle time improvement; factory operating performance; productivity improvement; variability management; Equations; Instruments; Manufacturing; Production facilities; Productivity; Random access memory; Semiconductor device manufacture; Steady-state; Testing; Throughput;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference Proceedings, 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3752-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSM.1997.664487
  • Filename
    664487