Six Sigma in a semiconductor company

Author

Riding, Karen D. ; Bruedern, Dirk-Alexander

Author_Institution

Corp. Manuf. Center of Excellence, GLOBALFOUNDRIE, Malta, NY, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 May 2014

Firstpage

230

Lastpage

235

Abstract

Lean and Six Sigma have been practiced by many companies over the last 15 years. Lean and Six Sigma are used to deliver breakthrough improvements in the business processes of a company, not incremental improvements. Lean and Six Sigma deployments are only successful if management in a company support, drive and buy-in to this approach to address business concerns. In this article, the methods, learnings and challenges will be described with the deployment of Lean Six Sigma in a ramping semiconductor company.

Keywords

lean production; semiconductor industry; six sigma (quality); breakthrough improvements; business process; company support; lean; management; ramping semiconductor company; six sigma; Belts; Certification; Companies; Lead; Six sigma; Training; Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Cause and Effect Diagram (Fishbone); Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC); Design for Six Sigma (DFSS); Design of Experiments (DOE); Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA); Lean; Lean Six Sigma (L6S); Measurement System Analysis (MSA); SIPOC (Supplier-Input-Process-Output-Customer); Six Sigma; quality; semiconductor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC), 2014 25th Annual SEMI

Conference_Location

Saratoga Springs, NY

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASMC.2014.6847004

Filename

6847004