UNDERSTANDING WAFERFAB STARTUP AND OPERATIONS

Synopsis

• Foundational understanding of semiconductor wafer fabrication, focusing on how fabs are set up and operated.

• Business and Technical requirements to set up and operate a waferfab. Capital Expense, Operating Expense and factors for improving profit, improving revenues and gaining market share.

• Overview of key tool sets (lithography, deposition, etch, implant, metrology)

• Material flows, automation, and fab IT systems (MES/ERP/automation layers)

• Operational models: staffing, shift structures, and supplier ecosystem support

• Yield optimization, quality control, and cost factors in fab operations.

• Improve profits, revenues and market share with an integrated approach.

• Issues that differentiate constant firefighting from predictable, stable and growing waferfabs.

• Information protection and software

The class is taught by Patrick Fernandez, a 30-year veteran of industry who has successfully worked in High Volume Manufacturing, Technology Development, 12 technology transfers, 7 new waferfab startups working for Texas Instruments. Furthermore, he worked on 91 projects across 31 waferfabs working for Texas Instruments, PDF solution and Applied Materials.

Patrick’s expertise in chip manufacturing is unique and second to none in the industry.