Date: Oct. 20-23, 2008

Location: Austin, Texas

You are invited to join other industry experts from around the world in presenting new and unique information and methodologies for increasing productivity and reducing manufacturing expenses by presenting a paper or poster at the Fifth ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness.

The ISMI Symposium is the centerpiece of ISMI Manufacturing Week, which includes workshops and short courses on leading-edge technologies, as well as expanded supplier exhibits and poster sessions, all aimed at making your company more competitive.

This call for papers is directed to the semiconductor community. The symposium sessions will be built around, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Process-related productivity improvement activities
• Yield modeling and yield improvement methodologies
• Real-time data collection and management
• Activities to achieve fast cycle time
• Real-time factory/equipment data management
• Defect Inspection
• Next-generation wafer strategy
• Future factory design
• Design for ESH (environment, safety and health)
• Facility systems reliability improvements
• Design and analysis of semiconductor experiments
• Productivity improvements related to advanced process control, run to run and fault detection and classification
• Lean manufacturing
• Equipment-related productivity improvement activities
• Factory and integrated metrology
• Factory productivity optimization using simulation
• Factory scheduling, dispatching optimization
• e-Manufacturing implementations
• Design for manufacturing
• Factory automation-related productivity improvements
• Manufacturing sustainability and resource conservation
• Topics in ESH management
• Statistical techniques for process improvement and control
• Novel approaches to the analysis and visualization of manufacturing data
• Non-product wafer reduction techniques

Abstracts are due June 27, 2008.

www.ismi.sematech.org/ismisymposium