Copy smart technology transfer

Transferring technologies among factories is a common practice. Numerous factors which drive this include: adding a second source, consolidating technologies, purchasing processes, and adding capacity for new processes. Transferring facilities can be company to company; site to site within a manufacturer; from old to new tool sets; small to larger wafer sizes and include other complicating scenarios. At National Semiconductor, recent transfers involved existing technologies among three fabrication sites. In this paper the evolved transfer process is reviewed along with a discussion of obstacles, methods to counter these issues and best practice techniques.