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The major performance measurements for any wafer fab manufactur- ing system comprise of WIP level, Move volume and cycle time. Different factors including machine breakdown, improper operation, poor releasing and dispatching rules, emergency order, and materials shortage, influence such measurements. Production managers use the WIP level profile of each stage to identify an abnormal situation, making necessary corrective actions. However, such a measure is a reactive action not a proactive one. A proactive action must predict the future performance, identify the abnormal situation, understand why it occurs and generate corrective actions to prevent a decrease in abnormal performance.Therefore, this work presents a production performance prediction model using artificial neural networks. An illustrative example in which data are collected from a local DRAM wafer fab demonstrates the accuracy of neural network models in predicting wafer fab performance.
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