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Strengthening the Competitiveness and Sustainability of a Semiconductor Manufacturer with Cloud Manufacturing

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  • Toly Chen

    (Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, Feng Chia University, 100, Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, Taichung City 407, Taiwan)

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Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new-generation service-oriented networked manufacturing model that provides distributed users centralized managed manufacturing resources, ability, and services. CMfg is applied here to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. Benefits are classified into five aspects: cost savings, efficiency, additional data analysis capabilities, flexibility, and closer partner relationships. A strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analysis is done which guides a semiconductor manufacturer in planning CMfg implementation projects. Simulation of a wafer fabrication factory (wafer fab) is used as an example. Several CMfg services are proposed for assisting the fab simulation activities through the collaboration of cloud service providers, software vendors, equipment suppliers, and the wafer fab. The connection with the competitiveness and sustainability of a wafer fab is also stressed.

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  • Toly Chen, 2014. "Strengthening the Competitiveness and Sustainability of a Semiconductor Manufacturer with Cloud Manufacturing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:6:y:2014:i:1:p:251-266:d:31877
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    2. Toly Chen, 2013. "A Systematic Cycle Time Reduction Procedure for Enhancing the Competitiveness and Sustainability of a Semiconductor Manufacturer," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(11), pages 1-16, November.
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    1. Toly Chen & Yu-Cheng Lin, 2017. "A digital equipment identifier system," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 28(5), pages 1159-1169, June.
    2. Toly Chen, 2016. "Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing in the Age of Globalization," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-5, December.
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    4. Wei He & Guozhu Jia & Hengshan Zong & Jili Kong, 2019. "Multi-Objective Service Selection and Scheduling with Linguistic Preference in Cloud Manufacturing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-15, May.
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    9. Lukasz Kuzminski & Tomasz Jalowiec & Piotr Masloch & Henryk Wojtaszek & Ireneusz Miciula, 2020. "Implementation of the Competitiveness Model in Terms of Cooperation with Suppliers," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(2), pages 343-359.
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