Case study on the profit margin model of multi-site testing technology for semiconductors

摘要

Profit is the main goal of every business. Hence, investment on technology in a manufacturing firm ultimately aims at improving manufacturing efficiency to reduce manufacturing cost, thereby contributing to the profit of a firm. In this research, the author studied multi-site testing technology in the semiconductor testing industry to determine the contribution of technological advancements to profit. A profit model was developed based on economic theory with multi-site testing variables. The multi-site technology employed in this work was the pick and place handler, which is a popular technological approach. Five multi-site configurations were applied. These configurations were single-site, quad-sites, octal-sites, ×16-sites, and ×32-sites. A hypothesis was analyzed by using one-way ANOVA.