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To establish a more flexible relationship between the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and suppliers, the use of flexible contracts in embedded system design has been proposed and it has been shown that such contracts allow a division of risk which often leads to a mitigation of inefficiencies. But from the perspective of the OEM, such flexible contracts also introduce uncertainties regarding...
Cluster tools play an important role in modern semiconductor fabs. Due to their complexity in configuration and their varying material flow, the creation of accurate throughput models for cluster tools is a demanding task. Proposed analytical approaches are either quite intricate and require manual maintenance process, or are inexact due to reliance on lot-level events. This paper presents an approach...
This paper analyzes the effects of small lot manufacturing (SLM) on equipment operation and fab performance. It also discusses equipment front-end design challenges and describes options for carrier handling and AMHS operation to maximize the productivity benefits of small lot manufacturing. This paper focuses primarily on the material handling aspects of SLM and as such, does not discuss the influences...
Assembly is one of the most extensively studied manual processes in manufacturing. Using design for assembly (DFA) methodologies relative times of real-world assembly tasks such as manipulation and insertion can be quantified. However, it is unclear if similar values can be reflected in a virtual assembly system? This question forms the rationale for the peg-in-hole assembly task addressed in this...
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