Title :
Reducing labor requirements for 300 mm factories with intrabay automation
Author :
Jefferson, Thomas ; Willbrandt, John
Author_Institution :
Intel Corp., Chandler, AZ, USA
Abstract :
A 300 mm carrier with 25 wafers weighs approximately 16 lbs. (200 mm=8 lbs.) making human transport and manual tool loading within bays undesirable from an injury and incident free work environment perspective. Given these facts, Intel has established a strategy to implement 100% intrabay automation for its 300 mm factories. Intrabay automation has also been shown to increase process equipment utilization and reduce the labor required to operate a factory for 200 mm operations. The objective (purpose) of this analysis was to estimate how intrabay automation, in various stages of complexity, would impact direct labor requirements for 300 mm manufacturing
Keywords :
human resource management; integrated circuit manufacture; process control; production control; 300 mm; Intel; complexity; factories; intrabay automation; labor requirements; process equipment utilization; Automatic control; Control systems; Dispatching; Hardware; Humans; Injuries; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing automation; Process control; Production facilities;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference Proceedings, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5403-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSM.1999.808742
