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 ...

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.

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

Process engineers at the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) have developed a cost-saving methodology that lets fab managers adjust errant pieces of equipment by matching it to the ...

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, ...

As technology nodes shrink to 90 nanometers and below, chips become much more difficult to manufacture. In-die process variations increase substantially at 90 nm — even more at 65 nm. If these effects ...

Adaptive laser beam shaping with a deformable mirror enables efficient energy and material usage in laser welding and ...