When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and reactive scheduling. Students use...

In-line defect inspection is employed to monitor tool health via sampling an in-line processing lot every fixed period, and avoid suffering large quality loss when the production tools are abnormal. However, defect inspection is a time-consuming process including lot movement, defect scan, and...

This study aims to form the basis for constructing a framework for evaluating alternative portfolios of R&D projects. This study provides an extensive literature review on portfolio selection. Most of the existing studies deal with the portfolio selection problem by evaluating individual...

The term "White Box" is often used to describe products without a brand name. Such products are assembled from standardized parts, and they became a very popular category of desktop PCs. Hsinchu, Taiwan based MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company that unleashed a white box market in mobile...

Research & development (R&D) performance has been a competitive advantage for high-tech industries. This paper presents an empirical study in which we used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the R&D performance of 31 computers and peripherals firms located at Hsinchu Science-based...