For effective and robust manufacturing within a plant, a proper process orientation and mindset must be developed and maintained. Three simple steps will help manufacturing staff develop this mindset.

Customer satisfaction determines customer loyalty, customer purchase intentions and in turn, a company's revenue stream. Product quality improves customer satisfaction. Reducing variation in both key ...

Silicon photonics uses existing CMOS manufacturing infrastructure and techniques but lacks mature models that take into account known CMOS process variations and their effect on photonic component ...

Modern manufacturing increasingly depends on sophisticated variation simulation techniques to forecast and mitigate the inevitable discrepancies arising during assembly processes. These simulation ...

With semiconductor feature sizes continuing to shrink, the variability arising from process technologies such as strained silicon, as well as the manufacturing processes themselves at 45 nm and below, ...