TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtual production line based WIP control for semiconductor manufacturing systems
AU - Qiu, Robin G.
N1 - Funding Information:
AutoMod ® is a trademark of Auto Simulation, Inc. The authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers and the editors for their invaluable and insightful comments that help improve the paper. The authors also wish to thank the Factory System Group at Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. (a leading semiconductor equipment supplier) for their collaboration, support and assistance in implementing the concept and setting up and conducting the tests. The research was partially supported by Penn State Great Valley 2002 SRS award and 2002–2003 Research Development Grant.
PY - 2005/2/18
Y1 - 2005/2/18
N2 - The explosive growth of data acquisition and increasing number of machining processes makes extremely difficult to deliver precise information to the proper users at the right time by relying on a centralized work-in-process (WIP) control system in manufacturing. This article presents a potentially practical solution to a manageable and well-distributed WIP control system by addressing issues such as real time performance, scalability, and reconfigurability. By taking advantage of the advances in distributed computing technologies multiple WIP control instances performing different subsets of control and management responsibilities can be spawned from a server repository, running on geographically dispersed networked computers. These spawned WIP control instances are coordinated and synchronized using the concept of virtual production lines (VPLs). WIP control algorithms for implementing real time "pull" operations, leveraging WIP levels, and resolving resource sharing are proposed. Certain validation has been conducted in an industrial testbed to confirm the applicability of the proposed VPL-based WIP control solution.
AB - The explosive growth of data acquisition and increasing number of machining processes makes extremely difficult to deliver precise information to the proper users at the right time by relying on a centralized work-in-process (WIP) control system in manufacturing. This article presents a potentially practical solution to a manageable and well-distributed WIP control system by addressing issues such as real time performance, scalability, and reconfigurability. By taking advantage of the advances in distributed computing technologies multiple WIP control instances performing different subsets of control and management responsibilities can be spawned from a server repository, running on geographically dispersed networked computers. These spawned WIP control instances are coordinated and synchronized using the concept of virtual production lines (VPLs). WIP control algorithms for implementing real time "pull" operations, leveraging WIP levels, and resolving resource sharing are proposed. Certain validation has been conducted in an industrial testbed to confirm the applicability of the proposed VPL-based WIP control solution.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2003.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2003.12.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:11844279037
SN - 0925-5273
VL - 95
SP - 165
EP - 178
JO - International Journal of Production Economics
JF - International Journal of Production Economics
IS - 2
ER -