Systematic Improvement of Fab Productivity

摘要

In today's economy and highly competitive market, companies are seeking to maximize their asset utilization. For those fabs that still operate in the United States it is essential to maximize asset utilization to operate at the best possible cost levels, while taking advantage of increased capacity to capture market share. Intersil designs and manufactures high-performance, analog semiconductors for the flat-panel display, optical storage (CD and DVD recordable) and power management industries. As a result of consolidation of operations and significantly increased production requirements, the main fab was facing serious bottlenecks in production. Intersil enlisted Tefen USA, first to support identifying the primary fab bottleneck, and then to develop a comprehensive roadmap for capacity and cycle time improvements.