Reducing labor requirements for 300 mm factories with intrabay automation

Author

Jefferson, Thomas ; Willbrandt, John

Author_Institution

Intel Corp., Chandler, AZ, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

80

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference Proceedings, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

ISSN

1523-553X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5403-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSM.1999.808742

Filename

808742