Optimizing fab performance with MES-database active archiving

摘要

With increasing trends toward more fab automation, individual wafer tracking, and manufacturing accountability has come an enormous increase in databases associated with manufacturing execution software. The quick fixes, including more computer hardware, redesigning database structures, and saving flat files to tape, are often fraught with risks. Newly introduced to semiconductor manufacturing, and successfully used in other industries, active archiving is the more logical approach to lessening the burden that databases put on fab productivity.