Abstract
Shorten the time-to-market is not only matter of profit but also an essential factor to the survival of a company. The Moor’s law – “performance double in every 18 months”, is guiding the semiconductor industry for the passing years. The “silicon cycle” is getting more and more fast in the increasing competition of technology and cost. How can a semiconductor company enact with such rapid changing environment and keeping and increasing her advantage of competition? The IC industry in Taiwan was blooming in the past decade; all of us declare that we possessed excellent manufacturing capability. Indeed, but what are the key success factorys? This study is focus on the issues of new technology transfer and its capacity ramp up in semiconductor manufacturing factory, and tries to add related information of those details and have opportunity to improve the practice of our jobs. The research attempts to build a management system to prevent any risk in new technology transfer and ramp up process of IC Fab. Start from the literature review and intensive interview with the domain experts, we have find out the critical path of those activities. Then, use FMEA to review and identify the cause-effect relationship so as to work out some of the feasible solutions. These alternatives will perform the feasible checking by the recorded real cases, then, put them on the line to do the further monitoring. The major contribution of this paper is to offer a new and useful management framework of our Fab in new technology transfer and its capacity ramp up process.