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One of the most striking features in IC Manufacturing is the
intensively use of information technology (IT). Starting from
the first process operation, the following several hundred
operations are virtually controlled by process equipment, which
are under highly computerized control. These operational modes
are a mixture of manual, semi-auto and fully-auto systems.
This paper has a brief review of the current and future IC
manufacturing environment, and an evolutionary approach and a
future vision based manufacturing systems. The major part of
this paper is an empirical, field-based study, in which the
author reviewed the history and current status of
manufacturing systems applied to three Fabs. The three wafer
Fabs belong to a single company, which are located at Hsin-Chu
science based industry park, Taiwan, the Republic of China. A
questionnaire survey distributed to the Fabs' staffs, entitled
as "The Relative Importance to Achieve IC Manufacturing Needs
on Adopting Information Technology and its related Influencing
Factors" provided valuable data and information. It reflects
the influence of technology, organizational learning, business
type, management vision, operation management ... etc.
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