Semiconductor Equipment Reliability & Maintainability:  Advanced Tool & Strategies

This is a 3 day course. 

​Best Practices for Equipment Suppliers to Drive High Reliability, Minimize Preventive Maintenance, Increase Profit and Surpass Customer Expectations, All at the Same Time

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Corporate Goals / Strategies  

​Offer Aggressive, yet Low-risk Warranty
Output and/or Line Yield Based More Advanced Tools

Data Analysis

• Probabilities of Individual Failure Modes using Weibull
  
• Identify Infant Mortality, Constant Rate and Wear-Out Modes​
  

Failure Analysis

• ​Driven Objective Science-Based Causal Analysis
  
• This Drives Further Data Collection/Analysis“
  
• Expert-Opinion” not Overly Influential
  

​Solution Generation

• ​Complete Resolution & Problem Elimination
• Solution Concepts Evaluated on “Elegance”, i.e. low cost and simplicity and no compromises
  
• Based on Causal Analysis, utilize proven solution concepts based on design contradictions
  
• Even Non-Experts Are Critical to Include
  
• “Robust Decision Making” to Evaluated Concepts based on data and quality assumptions from diverse participants
  

Preventive Maintenance

• Scrutinize all recommendations
  
• Usage-Based and Cycle-Based Frequencies
  
• PMs focused on Known Failure Modes
  
• Current PM’s are Preventing which Failure Modes Effective use Predictive Maintenance, Where/When Called-For
  

Field Service / Spares

• Spares Levels based on Individual Failure Mode Analysis Data
  
• Spares Levels determined by Statistical Confidence
  
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