• DocumentCode
    3293987
  • Title

    Increased Fab Efficiency through the use of Small Lot Size FOUPs

  • Author

    Buice, Carl U. ; Bonora, Tony

  • Author_Institution
    Asyst Technol., Fremont
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    25-27 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    229
  • Lastpage
    231
  • Abstract
    Frequently large foundry fabs are running 10 or fewer wafers in standard 25 wafer FOUPs. The reasons for running lots that are significantly smaller than the full capacity vary from Fab to Fab and lot to lot. This paper investigates benefits and drawbacks of running small lot sizes and proposes alternate solutions to using partially filled 25 wafer FOUPs.
  • Keywords
    integrated circuits; lot sizing; fab efficiency; foundry fabs; front opening unified pods; small lot size; Costs; Foundries; Investments; Manufacturing processes; Production facilities; Throughput;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Manufacturing, 2006. ISSM 2006. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • ISSN
    1523-553X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-4-9904138-0-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSM.2006.4493069
  • Filename
    4493069