Technical Paper: Winter Simulation Conference 2020

What we cover in this technical paper:

• The complexities of wafer fab scheduling
• The pros and cons of traditional heuristic-based scheduling
• Seagate’s performance benchmark study: comparing the new proposed scheduling technology with the current simulation scheduler at their Springtown fab.
• Results from Seagate’s optimized schedules report, showing significant reductions in cycle time and increases in throughput compared with SimModel schedules.

Authors of this publication: Georgios M. Kopanos, Dennis Xenos, Slava Andreev (Flexciton Ltd.); Tina O’Donnell, Sharon Feely (Seagate Technology).