◘ Client Wafer Fabrication Tool Manufacturer

◘ Industry  Semiconductor/Manufacturing (Commercial)

◘ Goal  Improve product yield for newly Released To Manufacturing (RTMed) products

◘ Challenges   The customer released a new product to manufacturing which had a significantly low yield rate of 40%

◘ Solution   Developed processes to improve post production yield rates

◘ Key Benefits

◘ Improved manufactured product yield to 95%

◘ Root cause identification and mitigation of key contributor to reduced yield numbers

◘ Worked with parts vendor/supplier to understand their manufacturing processes.  Created improved manufacturing procedures which lead to the delivery of better materials

◘ Developed incoming material screening process to identify discrepant material earlier in the manufacturing process.  These efforts led to a reduction in rework costs