How often do you make decisions based on "gut feel"? And how confident are you those decisions are the best ones? For Orbital Sciences Corp., reducing the reliance on gut feel was the impetus for the ...

The semiconductor manufacturing process involves many steps, including, but not limited to, film deposition, photolithography, etching, and chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). Contamination can ...

Processes and process automation take many forms. Here’s how to navigate the growing ecosystem of tools for automating everything from simple repetitive tasks to complex custom workflows. In 2015, ...

At one end, you design and pilot innovation process elements and wait until you reach a comfortable level of process maturity and discipline before starting to enable those processes with enterprise ...

As semiconductor devices become more complex and the critical particle size for today’s cutting-edge technology nodes falls into the sub-10 nm size range, controlling and mitigating potentially ...