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...

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...