Due-date assignment for wafer fabrication under demand variate environment

Abstract

In the semiconductor industry, dynamic changes in demand force companies to change the product mix frequently and periodically. Assigning tight but attainable due dates is a great challenge under the circumstances that the product mix changes periodically. In this paper, we consider the due-date assignment problem for wafer fabrication and present a due-date assignment model to set manufacturing due dates satisfying the target on-time-delivery rate. The contamination model is applied to tackle the effect of that product mix varies periodically. We demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed model by solving a real-world example taken from a wafer fabrication shop floor in an IC manufacturing factory.