Scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing is of vital importance due to the impact on
production performance indicators such as equipment utilization, cycle time, and delivery …

In recent years, a few researchers have addressed the need for the integration of process
planning and scheduling functions in order to achieve superior overall system performance …

There is a widely perceived gap within the domain of scheduling for manufacturing systems,
namely, many of the methods employed by production supervisors are quite different from …

To help address the need for manufacturing cycle time reduction, Intel has adopted an
integrated operations management approach that consists of three key components …

This paper validates a proposed job release methodology and experimentally investigates
the impact of production control methodologies and system factors on wafer fab performance …

Production scheduling in semiconductor wafer fabs is a nontrivial task owing to the
complexity of wafer fabrication. Dispatching rules are the most commonly used tools for shop …

Over the last fifty-plus years, the increased complexity and speed of integrated circuits have
radically changed our world. Today, semiconductor manufacturing is perhaps the most …

Production scheduling in semiconductor wafer fabs is a non-trivial task owing to the
complexity of wafer fabrication. Dispatching rules are the most commonly used tools for shop …

On-time delivery is one of the performance measurements in the make-to-order
semiconductor industry. Many control policies, such as input dispatching rules, CONWIP and …

This paper presents a scheduling heuristic to aid the operators in semiconductor fabrication
facilities (commonly referred to as fabs) in choosing what type of lots to process next and …