SEMI STANDARDS ACCEPTS TPIC DOCUMENT;
4447 SUCCESSFULLY PASSES YELLOW BALLOTING
The TPIC-led
Equipment Training Task Force received approval from the SEMI North
America Standards Metrics Committee to have its "GUIDE FOR
EQUIPMENT TRAINING BEST PRACTICES (Doc
#4447)" forwarded for publication as a global industry
standard. The approval occurred at the Standards meetings held during
SEMICON West in July 2007. Doc #4447 primarily represents best practices
as implemented by TPIC's Performance Based Equipment Training (PBET)
Guidelines that were developed and published under the auspices
of SEMATECH in 1996. The standard draft was reviewed for balloting
during May and June, and received sufficient response without rejections
or edits.
TPIC would like to express congratulations to its Standards Task
Force, and especially acknowledge outstanding contributions from
Dick Goutal of Solid
Performance Solutions, and TPIC Board Member Chona Shumate of
Cymer. Although Dick and Chona are long-time, continual participants
in TPIC, each of them added significantly more of their time and
expertise to the development of this standard.
Doc #4447 is the first standard proposed by the TPIC Task Force,
and joins previous efforts by other TPIC participants who have succeeded
in publishing Doc #4493 - "GUIDE FOR EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER-PROVIDED
DOCUMENTATION FOR THE ACQUISITION AND USE OF MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT."
NEW STANDARD ACTIVITY
The TPIC Standards Task Force also received approval to begin
development of Doc #4490 "GUIDELINES FOR STANDARDIZED SEMICONDUCTOR
TECHNICAL ENGLISH (SSTE)." Click
here to see the approved SNARF for Doc #4490.
Additional SNARF proposals willl include:
-- Globalization, localization
-- Technician skill levels / certification
EQUIPMENT TRAINING TASK FORCE CHARTER
Advancement and adoption of personnel performance improvement
technology, methodologies, and best practices as applied to enterprises
and individuals involved with training, facilitating, supporting
and developing the semiconductor process, maintenance and engineering
workforce. Task Force leadership will focus on "reducing time
to performance" for equipment technicians, operators/manufacturing
and process/equipment engineers. In addition to streamlining the
critical path for optimum tool performance as measured by RAM (reliability,
availability, maintainability), this task force will establish protocols
for cost-efficient excellence in designing, developing and delivering
education across multiple platforms for advanced technology.
SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES
To define recommended minimum requirements for:
- Blended Learning
- Performance based equipment training (PBET)
- Identification and certification of personnel performance skill
levels
- Evaluating performance improvement
- Electronic learning interfaces and electronic learning management
- Tools and methodologies for equipment and process simulation
- Training materials and methodologies
- Simplified Technical English applications
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