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A Bibliography on Capacity Modeling for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Section 36: Variability and Uncertainty

bulletT. Bielecki and P. R. Kumar, "Optimality of Zero-Inventory Policies for Unreliable Manufacturing Systems," Operations Research, Vol. 36, No. 4, 532-541, 1988.
bulletA. B. Bondi and W. Whitt, "The Influence of Service-Time Variability in a Closed Network of Queues," Performance Evaluation, Vol. 6, 219-234, 1986.
bulletP. Cogez, "The Effect of Uncertainty on Production Release Policies," Engineering Systems Research Center Report No. 90-25, the University of California at Berkeley, 1990.
bulletE. V. Denardo and C. S. Tang, "Control of a Stochastic Production System With Estimated Parameters," Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 9, 1296-1307, 1997.
bulletG. Foo and D. J. Friedman, "Variability and Capability: The Foundation of Competitive Operations Performance," AT&T Technical Journal, July/August 1992, 2-9.
bulletH. Fromm, "Some Remarks on Cycle Time, Variability, Zero Inventories, and Costs in Microelectronics Manufacturing Lines," IBM Technical Report TR 28.167, 1992.
bulletS. A. Hendryx, "Manufacturing Execution: Theory and Concepts," AT&T Technical Journal, July/August 1990, 33-52.
bulletY.-F. Hung and C.-B. Chang, "Determining Safety Stocks for Production Planning in Uncertain Manufacturing," International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 58, No. 2, 199-208, 1999.
bulletJ. H. Jacobs, L. F. P. Etman, E. J. J. van Campen, J. E. Rooda, "Characterization of Operational Time Variability using Effective Process Times," IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 16, No. 3, 511-520, 2003.
bulletS. S. Johal, "Non-Linearity and Randomness in a Semiconductor Wafer Fab," Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference, Cambridge, MA, 2-6, 1996.
bulletH. V. Kher and L. D. Fredendall, "Comparing Variance Reduction to Managing System Variance in a Job Shop," Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 46, No. 1, 101-120, 2004.
bulletD. S. Kim and J. M. Alden, "Estimating the Distribution And Variance Of Time To Produce A Fixed Lot Size Given Deterministic Processing Times And Random Downtimes," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 35, No. 12, 3405-3414, 1997.
bulletS.-S. Ko, R. Serfozo, A. Sivakumar, "Reducing Cycle Times in Manufacturing and Supply Chains by Input and Service Rate Smoothing," IIE Transactions, Vol. 36, No. 2, 145-153, 2004.
bulletJ. W. Li, "Improving the Performance of Job Shop Manufacturing with Demand-Pull Production Control by Reducing Set-Up/Processing Time Variability," International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 84, No. 3, 255-270, 2003.
bulletS. C. H. Lu, D. Ramaswamy, and P. R. Kumar, "Efficient Scheduling Policies to Reduce Mean and Variance of Cycle-Time in Semiconductor Manufacturing Plants," IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1994, 374-380.
bulletJ. W. Patterson, L. D. Fredendall, C. W. Craighead, “The Impact of Non-Bottleneck Variation in a Manufacturing Cell,” Production Planning and Control, Vol. 13, No. 1, 76-85, 2002.
bulletL. Sattler, S. O'Connor, M. Hallinan and T. Finucane, "Techniques for Analyzing Cycle Time Variability in Fab and Probe," Proceedings of the 1999 Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC), Boston, MA, 1999. 
bulletA. Schoemig, "On The Corrupting Influence Of Variability In Semiconductor Manufacturing," Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference, 1999. 
bulletS. Sokhan-Sanj, G. Gaxiola, G. T. Mackulak, and F. B. Malmgren, "A Comparison of the Exponential and the Hyperexponential Distributions for Modeling Move Requests in a Semiconductor Fab," Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference, 1999.
bulletC. S. Tang, "The Impact of Uncertainty on a Production Line," Management Science, Vol. 36, No. 12, 1518-1531, 1990. 
bulletG. D. Taylor and S. S. Heragu, "A Comparison of Mean Reduction Versus Variance Reduction in Processing Times in Flow Shops," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 37, No. 9, 1919-1934, 1999. 
bulletKan Wu, "An Examination of Variability and its Basic Properties for a Factory," IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 18, No. 1, 214-221, 2005. Author is from IE Dept., Inotera Memories Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan.
bulletH. J. Yoon and D. Y. Lee, "A Control Method To Reduce The Standard Deviation Of Flow Time In Wafer Fabrication," IEEE Transactions in Semiconductor Manufacturing, Volume 13, No. 3, 389-392, 2000.

 
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