Abstract
With the scale of semiconductor foundry increases, the amounts the knowledge-workers also raise hugely. Besides, we are facing the situation that the cost of automation and manpower is ascending year by year, and the engineers and technical operators play more and more important roles in the factory. The best headcount plan of manufacturing and the improvement of productivity have become an essential topic. However, many factors would affect the headcount plan of manufacturing in a semiconductor foundry. How to reflect the real demand of manpower under different decision makers’ preferences is a difficult problem. This research aims to employ UNISON decision analysis framework and construct the optimal operation headcount planning model for semiconductor manufacturing. We also discuss with domain experts to build up key performance index for management. An empirical study was conducted in a semiconductor company for validation. The results showed that the proposed framework can assist the company to develop an operation headcount planing model and associated management mechanism improving the decision quality and rationality to enhance people productivity and human capital to thus maintain corporate competitiveness.