Renesas Electronics Case Study

Managing Three Conflicting KPIs at the Diffusion Area with Multi-objective Optimization

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  • The particularities of the diffusion area that make it such a complex scheduling problem
  • The tradeoffs that occurred at Renesas Electronics’ US wafer fab when they tried to decrease cycle time and increase batch size
  • Our intelligent multi-objective approach
  • The impressive results our scheduler gathered within a realistic simulation environment

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