Predicting job completion time is an important but difficult task to a semiconductor fabrication plant. To further enhance its effectiveness, an evolving hybrid neural approach is proposed in this study. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, Production Simulation (PS) is also...

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new-generation service-oriented networked manufacturing model that provides distributed users centralized managed manufacturing resources, ability, and services. CMfg is applied here to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. Benefits are classified into five...

Cycle time reduction plays an important role in improving the competitiveness and sustainability of a semiconductor manufacturer. However, in the past, cycle time reduction was usually unplanned owing to the lack of a systematic and quantitative procedure. To tackle this problem, a systematic...

A location-aware service (LAS) is an imperative topic in ambient intelligence; an LAS recommends suitable utilities to a user based on the user’s location and context. However, current LASs have several problems, and most of these services do not last. This study proposes an optimization-based...

Cycle time management plays an important role in improving the performance of a wafer fabrication factory. It starts from the estimation of the cycle time of each job in the wafer fabrication factory. Although this topic has been widely investigated, several issues still need to be addressed,...

Yield prediction is a very important task to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. However, it is difficult because yield improvement is a learning process, and the uncertainty and variation inherent in the learning process are not easy to consider. In addition, the competition in the...

Yield prediction is a very important task to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. However, it is difficult because yield improvement is a learning process, and the uncertainty and variation inherent in the learning process are not easy to consider. In addition, the competition in the...