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

Volume

1

Issue

4

fYear

1988

fDate

11/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

153

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0894-6507

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/66.17988

Filename

17988