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Economy of scale effects for large wafer fabs

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, we present the results of a simulation study for semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities (wafer fabs) where we multiplied the number of tools per tool group and the number of operators. We were interested in the effects on the product cycle times when we keep the fab utilization constant while increasing the size of the tool groups by constant factors, i.e., forming so-called giga fabs. It turns out, that the drop in cycle time is considerable.

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
December 2006
2429 pages
ISBN:1424405017

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  • IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
  • ASA: American Statistical Association
  • IEICE ESS: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Engineering Sciences Society
  • IEEE-CS\DATC: The IEEE Computer Society
  • SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
  • NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • (SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
  • INFORMS-CS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences-College on Simulation

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Published: 03 December 2006

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WSC06: Winter Simulation Conference 2006
December 3 - 6, 2006
California, Monterey

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WSC '06 Paper Acceptance Rate 177 of 252 submissions, 70%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 3,413 of 5,075 submissions, 67%

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