Title
An optimization model for qualification management in wafer fabs.
Abstract
The individual tools of a tool group need to be qualified to run lots of certain families in wafer fabs. A qualification time window is associated with each family and each tool. This window lasts typically from a couple of days to few weeks. The time window can be re-initialized with separate qualification effort on a need by basis and can be extended by on-time processing of qualifying families. In this paper, we propose a mixed integer programming formulation for this problem assuming a given demand for a planning horizon of several periods. The objective function takes into account qualification costs, backlog costs, and inventory holding costs among others. Results of computational experiments based on randomly generated problem instances are presented that demonstrate that a tradeoff between production objectives and qualification costs can be reached by an appropriate configuration of the model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/WSC.2016.7822299
Winter Simulation Conference
Field
DocType
ISSN
Wafer,Time horizon,Simulation,Holding cost,Semiconductor device modeling,Computer science,Integer programming,Linear programming
Conference
0891-7736
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-4484-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Denny Kopp101.35
Lars Mönch201.69
Detlef Pabst301.35
Marcel Stehli4446.27