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 ...

To ensure success in semiconductor technology development, process engineers must set the allowed ranges for wafer process parameters. Variability must be controlled, so that final fabricated devices ...

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. said it is using Mentor Graphics Corp.’s Calibre OPCverify design-for-manufacturing (DFM) software for use in production at 65nm and below to examine the impact ...

Increasingly tight tolerances and rigorous demands for quality are forcing chipmakers and equipment manufacturers to ferret out minor process variances, which can create significant anomalies in ...

Special cause variation, I love to see it! That’s because I know I’m about to learn something important about my process. A ...