Title :
Bottleneck starvation indicators for shop floor control [semiconductor manufacturing process]
Author :
Lozinski, Christopher ; Glassey, C. Roger
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Oper. Res., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
11/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A graphical tool for inventory and production control, currently in use at a major US semiconductor manufacturer, is presented. The tool supports a bottleneck starvation avoidance policy. Equations for calculating the bottleneck in a clean room manufacturing environment are presented. A new constraint which must be satisfied to ensure starvation avoidance is introduced. A technique for helping a manual decision process conform to this constraint is presented. Many graphs are given to illustrate the concepts
Keywords :
integrated circuit manufacture; production control; scheduling; semiconductor device manufacture; stock control; bottleneck starvation avoidance policy; clean room manufacturing environment; decision process; graphical tool; inventory control; production control; shop floor control; wafer fabrication facility; Equations; Inventory control; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing processes; Process control; Production control; Resource management; Semiconductor device manufacture; Semiconductor materials; Workstations;
Journal_Title :
Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on
