Planning Function Paper
Planning in the Semiconductor business is not like planning a day at the beach or even a day at the office. You have to be prepared for the next generation of node technology before the customer has even started taping out there final products. Taping out the product is the step before you send it to manufacturing for the first on wafer employment of the design. You need to be two steps ahead of your of rival company otherwise you are four steps behind. You need to be planning on what you need to do if you fail at getting your customer to buy the tool you have built. Being able to make dynamic management decisions that enable you to stay ahead of the competition blurs the lines between wrong and right. Being able to keep legal, ethic and business principles at the forefront of you are planning from the CEO down to the site supervisor. This will make sure the company will not be on the front of the Wall Street Journal as the next scandal that would send your company into downward spin that affects the shareholders.
For instance in 2001 or company, Novellus Systems Inc. developed an advanced liquid chemical delivery system. This system enabled or company to use a chemical that no other company at the time. Using this chemical allowed Novellus Systems to achieve the most advanced uniformity between wafers the industry as ever seen. So the reader understands in a semiconductor tool every time the tool processes a wafer there is slight difference between every wafer that is processed this is called uniformity. On most normal semiconductor tools at this time, the difference is between five to six percent. The chemical delivery system Novellus design allowed us to achiev ...