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In high precision required semiconductor manufacturing, the expensive equipment investment causes high depreciation cost which is more than forty percent of all production cost. And the equipment performance directly affects the production capacity and product quality. In order to effectively and efficiently utilize equipment to reach equipment capacity limits, many manufacturers set the reduction of standby time and down time as a yearly unchanged goal. Most of the existing methods for attaining the above purposes are based on technology approach and in-line management. Very few methods are development based on system control and management concepts. However, the technology-oriented methods need high development cost and are not generic for all kind of machine. Although the semiconductor manufacturing is important in Taiwan''s industry, the management of equipment maintenance is not well studied in current stage. In this research, after interviewing with managers and engineers of many semiconductors manufacturing companies to understand the practitioners'' concerns and problems, we have developed the concept structure of Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) Management System for semiconductor manufacturing. The semiconductor industry can apply this system structure to develop a reliable and suitable equipment maintenance management system. According to the system concept structure, the failure prediction model is developed. Followed is the analysis of machine failure history and the development of failure model. The probability model of mean time between failure can be obtained. Using the failure model, we obtained the failure prediction model, which applies the Bayesian method and considers the effect of preventive maintenance to calculate the reliability of equipment. The failure prediction models can be applied to the prediction of machine failure and the development of scheduling methods for equipment maintenance in the further research. Due to the failure history data is important to the failure prediction model, this research also develop a TPM database. The database supports all equipment information of TPM Management System.
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