Article ID: | iaor20022727 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 275 |
End Page Number: | 292 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Cochran J.K., Fowler J.W., Montgomery Douglas C., Phojanamongkolkij N. |
Keywords: | queues: applications |
Wafer fabrication, the first portion of semiconductor manufacturing, typically involves numerous batch-processing operations. These operations play an important role in determining how the system performs in terms of throughput, work-in-progress (WIP) and cycle time. In this paper, batch sizes that minimize the expected cycle time of batch-processing operations for a real-world semiconductor manufacturer are determined by a new approximated analytical model. This model, denoted by