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Goodhart’s Law and the pitfalls of targeting load port utilisation on photo tools

It has been described as the law that rules the modern world, and its effects can be observed in every organisation.

Is Fear Holding Back The Chip Industry’s Future In The Cloud?

The semiconductor industry is at the cutting edge of technology – so why is it still so nervous about the cloud?

A Hot Topic: What Makes Scheduling the Diffusion Area so Challenging? [Tech Paper Review]

The diffusion area is particularly important to the smooth operation of a wafer fab.

Looking into the future: how advanced optimization can manage timelink constraints (Part 2)

In our second case study, we consider a more complex problem where a trade-off must be made between the cycle time of high priority lots.

Could Reinforcement Learning play a part in the future of wafer fab scheduling? [tech paper review]

A common example of RL is self-driving cars, but its easy to see how it could be successful in other environments, such as a wafer fab.

The reticle allocation problem and how to approach it [tech paper review]

This week, Daniel Cifuentes Daza, one of our Optimization Engineers here at Flexciton, explores the problem of allocating reticles.