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This paper describes a cost and productivity learning process that was carried out on a large-capacity CMOS manufacturing line at the IBM Burlington facility from 1991 to 1993. Major productivity gains were realized through process and tool improvements affecting yield, and through work-in-progress optimization and scrap reduction. Significant cost learning was also accomplished through tool cost...