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MANILA, Philippines—Renowned Spanish singer Julio Iglesias arrived in Manila by private plane on Tuesday accompanied by a 26-man entourage. The 69-year-old crooner went straight to the Manila Hotel, where he is slated to hold a dinner-concert on Saturday to kick off the Asia leg of his 2013 World Tour.
Iglesias is embarking on an age-defying, grueling tour, which will take him to the Philippines, South Korea, China, Singapore and Taiwan in Asia.
He last performed in the Philippines in 2010 in his "Heart of Gold" concert, which raised funds for the rehabilitation of the houses of victims of Typhoons "Ondoy" and "Pepeng." This time around, Iglesias will perform for the benefit of the Manila Friendship Lions Club 301-A1 and Joy of Living Foundation.
The romantic singer has a special connection to Filipinos. The mother of three of his eight children—Chabeli, Julio Jr. and Enrique—is Filipino-Spanish journalist, socialite and TV host Isabel Preysler. The couple met in 1970, during Iglesias' transition from being a football player for Real Madrid Castilla to recording artist. They were married in 1971. Their marriage was annulled in 1979.
Julio Jr. and Enrique have become singers themselves, while Chabeli is a socialite and TV personality.
Iglesias was in Beijing on April 1 to receive the Guinness World Records award as the world's best-selling male Latin artist. He was in China ahead of a three-show tour of the country, where he remains hugely popular due to his inoffensive, idealistic brand of singing. Iglesias also received an award as First and Most Popular International Artist in China from his record company, Sony, although it was unable to say how many records he has sold in the country.
Iglesias obtained a law degree at his father's behest though he is not known to have ever practiced law. In the 1960s, he met a car accident which smashed his lower spine, permanently weakening his legs and requiring therapy even up to late last year. The accident, however, opened up what would become an iconic singing career for the artist who is considered among the five best-selling Hispanic music artists in history, having sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages. He holds more than 2,400 certified gold and platinum records.
All of this started during Iglesias' hospitalization, when a nurse gave him a guitar to kill time.
Since then, the dusky singer with the rugged good looks discovered he could melt ladies' hearts with his voice as well. With a report from AFP
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|Started as a simple cylinder with a flat top but later developed a curved "sugar loaf" pointed top to deflect crushing blows. Has small slits for eyes and breathing/ventilation which may be decorative as well as functional. Often removed after the initial "clash of lances" as it impedes sight and breathing and is very hot. Often worn with another helm underneath. A stereotypical knight's helm from the crusader period.
|Late 13th C.
|Steel skullcap worn underneath a great helm.
|Early 14th C.
|Originally worn underneath a great helm and had no visor but did develop "nasals" to protect the nose. By the mid 14th C. it replaced the great helm and was fully visored, often "dog faced" (the conical hounskull visor), often worn without a visor for visibility and 'breathability'. Worn with an aventail then later with a gorget. Visors on English bassinets have a hinge at each side whereas German bassinets have a single hinge attached at the middle.
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|A bowl helmet that encloses the entire head with the use of hinged cheek plates that fold backwards. A gorget was attached and a comb may be present. May also have a rondel at the rear. Later armets have a visor. A stereotypical knight's helm. Favoured in Italy.
|Mid 15th C.
|When worn with a bevor as is usual, a sallet covers the entire head. It is distinguished by a long, sometimes pointed (if Italian) tail that extends to cover the back of the neck and by a single, long eye-slit. It has no ventilation holes as there is a gap where the helm and bevor meet. A favoured helm in England and Western Europe, including Germanic areas (the tail may have influenced design of German helmets in World War 2).
|Close helm
|A bowl helmet with a visor, very similar visually to an armet and often the two are confused. However, it lacks the hinged cheekplates of an armet and instead has a bevor.
|15th C.
|Close fitting helmet with a characteristic Y- or T-shaped slit for vision and breathing, reminiscent of ancient Greek helmets
|Early 16th C.
|Open face bowl shaped helmet with a neck collar, a peak, a very characteristic comb, sometimes with cheek pieces. Sometimes has a buffe (a visor that is raised, rather than lowered).
|Aventail or Camail
|Detachable mail hung from a helmet to protect the neck and shoulders, often worn with bassinets.
|Steel collar to protect the neck and cover the neck opening in a complete cuirass. Quite unlike a modern shirt collar in that as well as covering the front and back of the neck it also covers part of the clavicles and sternum and a like area on the back.
|Worn with a sallet to cover the jaw and throat (extending somewhat down the sternum). May also cover the back of the neck if worn with a bassinet rather than a sallet. May be solid or made of lamés. Sometimes worn with a gorget.
|12th to 16th C.
|Cloth garment, generally canvas or leather, lined with small oblong steel plates riveted to the fabric.
|Hauberk or Haubergeon
|? to 14th C.
|Mail shirt with sleeves reaching to the mid-thigh.
|14th C.
|Covers the breast, not the back, however the name is sometimes used to describe the breast- and backplates together. Developed in antiquity but became common in the 14th C. with the reintroduction of plate armour, later sometimes two pieces overlapping for top and bottom. Whether of one piece or two, breastplate is sometimes used to literally describe the section that covers the breast.
|A mail collar. In common with a gorget, it is not like a modern shirt collar. Rather, it is a circle with a hole for the neck to fit through. It covers the shoulders, breast and upper back, perhaps like an extremely small poncho.
|Extra layer of armour to cover the belly.
|Bands to protect the front waist and hips, attached to cuirass.
|Small, horizontal lamés that protect the small of the back or the buttocks, attached to a backplate or cuirass.
|Plate that guards the elbow, eventually became articulated, may be covered by guard of vambace (see below).
|Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit.
|15th C.
|Cover the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and chest.
|Extra plate that covers the front of the shoulder, worn over top of a pauldron.
|Rerebrace or Brassart or Upper Cannon (of Vambrace)
|Plate that covers the section of upper arm from elbow to area covered by shoulder armour.
|Circular plate that covers the armpit, typically worn with spaulders.
|Vambrace or Lower Cannon (of Vambrace)
|14th C.
|Forearm guard. May be solid metal or splints of metal attached to a leather backing. Developed in antiquity but named in the 14th C. Vambrace may also sometimes refer to parts of armour that together cover the lower and upper arms.
|Gloves that cover from the fingers to the forearms, made from many materials.
|Guard of vambrace
|An additional layer of armour that goes over cowter, in which case it is proper to speak of the lower cannon of the vambrace which is the forearm guard, and the upper cannon of vambrace which is the rerebrace.
|Mail hosen, either knee-high or cover the whole leg.
|13th C.
|Plate that covers the knee, appeared early in the transition from mail to plate, later articulated to connect with the cuisses and schynbald or greave. Often with fins or rondel to cover gaps.
|Antiquity, lost but later reintroduced in 13th C. used till 15th C.
|Plate that covered only the shins, not the whole lower leg..
|Covers the lower leg, front and back, made from a variety of materials, but later most often plate.
|Plate that cover the thighs, made of various materials depending upon period.
|Sabaton or Solleret
|Covers the foot, often mail or plate.
|Tasset or Tuille
|Bands hanging from faulds or breastplate to protect the upper legs.
|14th C.
|Mail that protects areas not covered by plate.
|Band of steel plate, put together severally so that several bands can articulate on various areas like around the thighs, shoulders or waist. Such pieces are named for the number of bands, for instance, a fauld of four lamé.
|Doublet or Arming Doublet
|Padded cloth worn under a harness.
|Any circular plate. Roundels protecting various areas may have particular names, such as a besagew protecting the shoulder joint.


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Enough with Obama's "don't do stupid sh*t" policy. Only U.S. airstrikes can save Iraq from collapse.
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The dramatic events in Iraq — with the al Qaeda in Iraq offshoot, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), driving Iraqi government security forces out of Mosul, Iraq's second city, then rampaging down toward Baghdad — present as great a challenge to the international order as the seizure of Crimea two months ago. One can only imagine how U.S. veterans feel about their Iraqi allies allowing areas that Americans secured with their blood fall into the hands of our worst enemies. The United States needs with utmost urgency to respond and the Obama administration needs to reset its foreign policy for a world that doesn't respond kindly to a "don't do stupid sh*t" approach to diplomacy.
The ISIS challenge to the Iraqi state is far greater than the capture of Fallujah by that movement five months ago. ISIS has an extraordinary ability to maneuver effectively, using combined arms tactics involving snipers, suicide bombers, heavy infantry weapons, and personnel seasoned in the Syrian fighting to overwhelm Iraqi security forces far superior in numbers and equipment. The rout in Mosul illustrated the sorry state of the Iraqi forces: badly led, ill-trained, poorly motivated. The fault for this lies squarely in the arms of the Iraqi government. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pushed, even before U.S. forces left, to replace competent generals with desk warriors valued solely for their loyalty to him. Combat units were purged of Sunni Arabs and Kurds, and the resulting overwhelmingly Shiite troops were allowed — for example, in Mosul in 2010 — to parade their pro-Maliki election posters and Shiite banners honoring the sect's heroes Hussein and Ali.
In Sunni areas such as Mosul or Fallujah, these troops were seen as occupiers, not saviors.
But the Maliki government didn't stop at politicizing the military: It oppressed the Sunni Arab minority in other ways, while picking unnecessary fights over autonomy and oil exports with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Legal action against Sunni vice president Tariq al-Hashimi in 2011, and far more serious charges against Sunni Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi a year ago, mixed with brutal repression of "protest tent camps" in Sunni areas, all contributed to an estranged Sunni Arab population. That said, Sunnis have not generally favored ISIS's extremist agenda (almost half a million Mosul residents, mainly Sunni Arabs, have fled the ISIS invasion, into Kurdistan). The pattern of repression by what was seen as a Shiite government and army eroded the natural loyalty Sunni Arab as well as other Iraqi citizens have for their state.
Finally, the decision by Maliki's party (and, to be fair, supported by most others), to deny any residual American military force after 2011 undercut American efforts to provide counterterrorism support, a U.S. air presence, training of Iraqi ground combat units, and high-level Washington attention, all of which could have been crucial in stopping ISIS. Thus, while it is impossible to imagine the explosive rise of ISIS without factoring in the anarchic Syrian civil war, mistakes by Baghdad and Washington surely contributed to today's disaster.
Now we have the nightmare scenario. ISIS is now marching towards Baghdad. Its defining strategy is to establish a Sunni religious state, while waging a total war against the region's Shiite population. It is difficult to imagine this Middle Eastern blitzkrieg seizing largely Shiite Baghdad, with a population several times that of Mosul. The KRG and central government forces will fight much harder in their own ethnic/religious territory than in Sunni areas, as we saw this week with the Kurds establishing control over Kirkuk. ISIS cannot seize the whole country. But it is difficult to see the regular Iraqi Army regaining territory in the Sunni areas, absent new military — and perhaps national — leadership, and without tough training, better equipment, and large-scale air support, now largely lacking.
While a Sunni Arab Islamist movement thus cannot conquer a much larger Kurdish/Shiite area, what ISIS can do is destabilize the entire country by besieging Baghdad and cutting off essential services and revenue streams, beginning with the Baiji refinery to the north.
Stopping this jihadist offensive should be, but is not yet, a key Obama administration priority. The president's own words undergird this fact. In September 2013, before the U.N. General Assembly, the president listed four criteria in the Middle East that would affect vital U.S. interests and which he would be prepared to use military action to defend against. Three are directly relevant to the struggle underway in Iraq: 1) supporting allies and partners who confront external aggression (in this case not just Iraq but NATO ally Turkey, and close partners Israel and Jordan); 2) defending the free flow of energy to the world (according to the International Energy Agency, Iraq has the potential to produce 6 million-plus barrels of oil daily); and 3) combating terrorism (ISIS is now the biggest al Qaeda affiliate).
The 11-year American effort over two administrations to create a unified Iraq built on Western constitutional and political values is hanging by a thread. Washington's understandable inclination will be likely be more of the same: for the umpteenth time, seek to reconcile Iraq's three major ethnic/religious groups; encourage Prime Minister Maliki to reach out to tribes and seek conciliatory efforts with Sunnis; and rush in some helicopters and other equipment.
But we are beyond that, and years of effort with far more resources than now could not sustain our goals.
Rather, we face a dramatic shakeup in Iraq and the region whose import could equal epoch-changing events in the Middle East such as Israel's 1967 victory and the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Three major developments loom: First, and most obviously, ISIS's effort to besiege Baghdad, which has the potential for enormous loss of life. Second, a possible Kurdish bid for de facto autonomy, as the central government's obvious failure threatens the Kurds' hard-won prosperity. Third, an Iranian move to secure the Shiite south, including the holy shrines at Kabala and Najaf and oil fields, and reinforce the Iraqi Army. (A Turkish response, especially given the seizure of a large consular staff in Mosul by ISIS, can be expected, followed by reactions from Jordan and the Gulf states.)
In this brew, and with time of the essence, the only game-changing U.S. move would be an air campaign against ISIS of the magnitude of that used against Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces in Libya in 2011. ISIS operates more as a conventional motorized formation than an urban insurgency, and air power could be very effective in countering it. Given the unsettled situation throughout the country, the United States probably would have to use bases in Kurdistan, Jordan, Kuwait, and/or Turkey. This is of course a dramatic course of action, without guarantee of success, and at best would only buy time for the uncertain struggle to retake Sunni Iraq (and eventually parts of Syria).
But the alternative is worse: the whole world watching as an American partner and its U.S.-equipped army collapses, and while ISIS and Iran win. The international security system we have anchored, in President Obama's words last September, "for nearly seven decades," cannot withstand many more scenes like this. And the White House, afraid of doing stupid sh*t, cannot sit on its hands.
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An algorithm can be performed to control the dispatch of products in a fabrication or manufacturing facility. The queue time constraint tolerances and tool throughput are initialized for each product. Next the multiple processing demand time can be calculated for each product. The aggregating queue time constraint can then be calculated for each product. If the multiple processing demand time is less than the aggregating queue time constraint for each queue time limit tool, then any lot can be selected to be processed. Otherwise, the product at the given tool should be further processed.
1. A method for determining which, if any, of a plurality of products should be introduced to a manufacturing system, the method comprising:
initializing a relative throughput and a queue time constraint parameter for each product of the plurality of products;
calculating an overall multiple processing demand time for each product;
calculating an aggregating queue time constraint tolerance for each product; and
determining which, if any, product can be introduced to the manufacturing system by comparing the multiple processing demand time to the aggregating queue time constraint.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
where Qi(k) is the work in process for product i in a queue before tool k and Ii(k) is the work in process of product i at tool k.
6. The method of
7. The method of
8. The method of
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. A method of making a semiconductor device, the method comprising:
processing the semiconductor device at a first tool;
calculating a multiple processing demand time for the semiconductor device at a third tool;
calculating a queue time constraint tolerance for the semiconductor device between the second tool and a third tool;
dispatching the semiconductor device to the second tool if the multiple processing demand time is less than the queue time constraint;
processing the semiconductor device at the second tool; and
processing the semiconductor device at the third tool.
12. The method of
13. The method of
14. The method of
15. The method of
where Q(1st_tool, 2nd_tool) is based on the number of semiconductor devices that have been processed at the first tool and are awaiting processing at the second tool and wherein λ(2nd_tool) is the processing rate for the semiconductor device at the second tool.
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The present invention relates generally to a system and method for operating a manufacturing line, and more particularly to a system and method for controlling queue time constraints in a fabrication facility.
A typical process in manufacturing the semiconductor integrated circuit requires hundreds of steps. These steps include several kinds of stages such as diffusion, lithography, etching, ion implantation, deposition and sputtering. In these kinds of stages, diffusion and implantation generally require longer processing time than other process stages. Other processes will require less processing time. In addition, some processes, e.g., those with long processing time, can be simultaneously performed on several wafer lots (commonly referred to as a "batch").
In a semiconductor's processing line, several lots (and/or batches) and many kinds of products are put into the processing line continuously at the same time. Thus, many kinds of products are operated on during different kinds of stages in the processing flow. But since the processing time of each product is different from each other, determining how many and which wafers to be dispatched into a stage of the processing flow is a dispatching problem.
As another consideration, some processes must be performed within a certain amount of time after other processes. For example, after a deposition step a semiconductor wafer can be exposed to air for only a limited amount of time before the quality of the deposited film will begin to degrade. The time between processes can be referred to as the queue time. Limits on this time can be referred to as queue time constraints.
To control the operation of a fabrication plant, manufacturers have utilized queuing theory, which deals with problems that involve queuing or waiting. These theories can be utilized to optimize the flow of devices, or lots that include a number of devices, through a fabrication facility. For example, Little's formula can be used to calculate expected time between processes. This formula states that the mean number of jobs in a queuing system in the steady state is equal to the product of the arrival rate and the mean response time.
To ensure high quality, controls can be utilized to limit the queue time of wafers in progress after certain processes. This can be especially important for processes that are sensitive to time. If the queue time of a lot is not well controlled, the yield quality can be seriously impacted. For example, wafers may need to be scrapped if the film quality is damaged by exposure to air.
Some lots may be forced to wait beyond the desired queue time due to insufficient capacity, for example when too many wafers are awaiting the same tool. To minimize this occurrence, a safety WIP (work in process) can be designed to control the dispatch problem within a queue time constraint. The safety WIP is used to control the queue WIP level so that the capacity demand for the WIP level does not exceed the current capacity. The current methods, however, are insufficient to meet the increasing demands of modern fabrication facilities.
The present invention includes embodiments that overcome several of the disadvantages found in the prior art. In one aspect, a multiple processing demand time (MPDT) formula is defined using Little's formula. A smart algorithm controls the lot dispatching for queue time constraints. For a given processing tool with multiple queue time constraints, the lot-dispatching control logic procedure at the tool can utilize an algorithm to systematically control the number of lots dispatched to any given tool.
In the preferred embodiment, the algorithm can be performed using the following steps. The queue time constraint tolerances and tool throughput are initialized for each product. Next the multiple processing demand time can be calculated for each product. The aggregating queue time constraint can then be calculated for each product. If the multiple processing demand time is less than the aggregating queue time constraint for each queue time limit tool, then any lot can be selected to be processed. Otherwise, the product at the given tool should be further processed.
As a specific example, aspects of the present invention can be used to fabricate a semiconductor device. In this process, the semiconductor device is processed at a first tool. A mean processing demand time can be calculated for the semiconductor device at a second tool and a queue time constraint tolerance can be calculated for the semiconductor device between the second tool and a third tool. The semiconductor device can then be dispatched to the second tool if the mean processing demand time is less than the queue time constraint. The semiconductor device can then be processed at the second tool and at the third tool.
Various aspects of the present invention have advantages over previously used methods. For example, the preferred embodiment approach has better control capability for lot scheduling and dispatching than the safety WIP approach. Also, the preferred embodiment approach can be easily utilized to control queue time constraints for complex multiple products. The preferred embodiment approach can also effectively solve the problems associated with single and multiple queue time constraints.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention, and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a model of a manufacturing line with a single queue time constraint; and
FIG. 2 is a model of a manufacturing line with multiple queue time constraints.
The making and using of the presently preferred embodiments are discussed in detail below. It should be appreciated, however, that the present invention provides many applicable inventive concepts that can be embodied in a wide variety of specific contexts. The specific embodiments discussed are merely illustrative of specific ways to make and use the invention, and do not limit the scope of the invention.
The present invention will be described with respect to preferred embodiments in a specific context, namely a semiconductor fabrication facility (a main business of the assignee). The invention may also be applied, however, to other manufacturing facilities. For example, the facility could produce items such as electronics, consumer goods, chemical products, medical products and others.
In the semiconductor manufacturing industry, wafers are fabricated by sequentially performing processes often using different tools. The time between processes can be referred to as the queue time. Limits on this time can be referred to as queue time constraints. Queue time constraints are necessary to assure the quality of wafers in progress. A queue time constraint limits the queue time of a lot of wafers from a given process to the dedicated downstream process. With the queue time constraint, the wafers are processed at the dedicated process within the specified queue time. Especially for some critical processes or tools, those processed wafers are very sensitive to the exposing time before the downstream process.
If the queue time of a lot is not well controlled, it may seriously impact the lot yield quality. For example, wafers may be scrapped if the film quality of the wafers has been damaged when exposed in the air for too long a time. Thus, a goal of certain aspects of the invention is to carefully control the queue time constraints so that the number of lots processed in an amount of time greater than the queue time can be minimized. Achieving this goal helps to minimize the number of wafers that need to be reworked or scrapped. Therefore, the dispatching rule should be developed to select the lots before the queue time start tool is to be processed so that they can not be over queue time at the queue time-end tool.
The queue time constraint model can be classified as two main models: a single queue time constraint and multiple queue time constraints. The model with a single queue time constraint has one queue time constraint between two processing steps. It includes one queue time-start step 20 at tool a1 and one queue time-end step 22 at tool a2, as shown in FIG. 1 When wafers 10 and 12 are processed at the queue time-start step 20, the wafers at the queue time-end step 22 should be processed within the given queue time constraint tolerance. Tool a3 is illustrated to depict a process step 24 that is free of queue time constraints (e.g., the time necessary before a further step is performed is long enough to not be concerned with).
In the preferred embodiment, tools a1 and a2 are separate tools that perform different functions. For example, tool a1 could be a deposition chamber and tool a2 a lithography tool. In another example, tool a1 could be a via etch processing tool and tool a2 could be a photoresist strip etching tool. In other examples, the tools could be different machines that perform the same function, e.g., two deposition chambers. In yet another embodiment, the tools could be stages within a single machine.
In semiconductor manufacturing processes, a single queue time constraint model can be further divided into two types. The first type includes a single queue time constraint without intermediate steps. This process, as illustrated in FIG. 1, includes two consecutive steps with single queue time constraint. The queue time-end step is the next processing step of the queue time-start step. As an example, the queue time constraint between the clean step and the furnace step is typical of this model.
Another type of model includes a single queue time constraint with intermediate steps. Not including the queue time-start and queue time-end steps, the process within the constraint includes some intermediate steps (not shown). Examples of these intermediate steps could include measurement steps (e.g., critical dimension measurements), inspection steps (e.g., inspections after etching), or others.
FIG. 2 illustrates a model with multiple queue time constraints. This model includes a set of steps with a single queue time constraint. As shown in FIG. 2, the queue time-end step at tool a2 is also the queue time-start step for the next single queue time constraint. That is, a queue time constraint exists between steps 20 and 22 and also between steps 22 and 26. The process with the consecutive queue time constraints starting from the first queue time-start step 20 will be continuously limited until the process of the last queue time-end step 28 is completed. Hence, the WIP (work in process) within the multiple queue time constraints should be effectively controlled so that the over queue time events cannot happen due to insufficient capacity and limited operations. For a complex semiconductor manufacturing foundry, it is a very difficult job to control the operation problem with the multiple queue time constraints.
The discussion will now describe a first embodiment queue time limit dispatching control approach. Table 1 shows the notation for all WIP that include queue time constraints.
The first case to be considered is the case of dispatching with a single queue time constraint at the queue time-start tool. As shown in FIG. 1, the dispatching rule for all lots at tool a1 with single queue time constraint should consider the loading of tool a2 and the queue between tool a1 and tool a2 when tool a1 is available for processing. If the loading at tool a2 is over the capacity provided by tool a2, any lot or wafer at tool a1 should not be further processed because some lots may wait longer than the queue time constraint limit due to insufficient capacity for current loading. In other words, whether or not one lot at tool a1 can be processed will strongly depend on the current loading at tool a2.
Currently, the use of a safety WIP (SW) level is the most common approach to control the loading degree between two queue time-constraint steps. In this approach, new wafers are not introduced to the relevant portion of the system if they will cause the WIP to exceed the safety WIP level. The safety WIP level SW between two tools a1 and a2 can be is defined as
If the current queue WIP Q(a1, a2) within a constraint is less than the safety WIP level, the capacity provided by tool a2 will satisfy the capacity demand for all lots in the current queue Q(a1, a2) within the given queue time-constraint tolerance. Thus, the lot with the highest priority, which is waiting at tool a1, can be first selected as the candidate lot to be processed. Otherwise, the tool a2 should be stopped to process any lot queuing at tool a1. The safety WIP approach seems to be reasonable and effective for solving the queue time control problem with a single queue time constraint.
However, the current safety WIP approach has at least three main problems. First, it does not clearly design the safety WIP under different queue time tolerances for various products. Also, the safety WIP approach cannot effectively solve the queue time-constraint problems with different throughputs (e.g., WIP per hour). Further, the approach cannot be extended to solve the real operation problems with multiple queue time constraints.
To solve at least some of the above problems, the loading of tool a2 can be viewed as the multiple processing demand processing time (MPDT) at tool a2 for all lots in Q(a1,a2). Under different throughputs for various products i, MDPT can be expressed as
where Qi(a1,a2) is the queue WIP for product i with throughput λ (recipe) between tools a1 and a2.
Hence, the dispatching rule at tool a1 will consider the relationship between the multiple demand processing time and the queue time tolerance of each product. A general dispatching rule for queue time limit control is defined as follows.
Rule 1: If MPDT(a2)<QTi(a1,a2), then any lot with product i at tool a1 will be selected as the candidate lot to be processed.
Rule 1 implies that tool a1 has the remaining capacity for product i under the queue time constraints. So, some product i satisfying Rule 1 can be continuously processed at the queue time-start tool. If no product can satisfy Rule 1, it is suggested that tool a1 discontinue processing due to insufficient capacity for the current queue time constraints.
Rule 1 can be re-phrased to specify three possible cases for dispatching control rules at tool a1:
(1) if MPDT<QTi, then product i can be processed;
(2) if MPDT>Max {QTi} then tool a1 should be stopped; and
(3) if MPDT<Min {QTi} then any lot awaiting processing at tool a1 can be dispatched.
The discussion will now consider the case of dispatching with multiple queue time constraints at the queue time-start tool. It is a complex problem to determine whether or not to dispatch a particular lot when a queue time-start tool operates under multiple queue time constraints. As shown in FIG. 2, tool a1 not only checks the queue time constraint QT(a1, a2) but also checks all consecutive queue time constraints QT(a1, a2) for j=2, 3, . . . n. In other words, the capacity demand for all WIP at the consecutive queue time-constraint tools must be verified and checked based on the coming WIP for all queue time-constraint tools.
In the similar approach with single queue time constraint, the MPDT between a1 and aj can be obtained by
for each WIP group i with queue time constraints.
Based on MPDT definition and calculation, the lot dispatching policy should satisfy the following conditions:
where the aggregate queue time AQT for a product i is calculated as:
Any lot at tool a1 that satisfies Eq. (5) can be selected as the candidate lot to be processed. Further, the lot with the highest priority from all candidate lots can be first processed at tool a1.
In summary, an algorithm to control the dispatching policy of the given tool with multiple queue time constraints is developed as follows:
Step 1: Initialize and setup the relative throughput and queue time constraint parameters for each product i.
Step 2: Calculate the overall MPDT for each product i, as shown in Eq. (3) and Eq. (4).
Step 3: Calculate the aggregating queue time constraint tolerance (AQT) as Eq. (6) for each product i.
Step 4: If Eq. (5) is satisfied, any lot being product i can be selected for processing; otherwise, the given tool should be stopped to process product i.
The problem of queue time dispatching can be modified to control for batch processing tools. Batch processes, e.g., furnace processes, are a type of process that is performed simultaneously on more than one lot. The processing time for a batch is typically longer than the processing time for other serial processes. In addition, the maximum lot size should be defined for a batch. Those lots with the same recipes can be processed together in one batch.
The operation of a batch process can be described with reference to an example. Generally, a clean process must be performed before a furnace (i.e., high temperature) process. Those wafers completing the clean process should be limited within a queue time constraint tolerance to complete the furnace process. In other words, the clean process is the queue time-start tool for the furnace process. On the other hand, the queue time-end tool is the furnace process. It can be understood that the furnace process is the dispatching model of combining queue time limit with batch process. In this case, the dispatch of a lot to the cleaning tool should consider the time to process other lots that will make up the batch process in the furnace process.
The queue time-limit dispatching control approach in the above-noted algorithm is used for the queue time-start tool. The approach is justified when the queue time-start tool with queue time constraints determines whether or not to process the next waiting lot based on the real-time capacity of downstream tools. Hence, it should be a general decision rule for each dispatching rule, which should check the queue time control status of the applied tool. The relative tool capacity is dynamically updated based on the real-time tool status.
The queue time-limit control is a very key point for assuring wafer quality during fab processing. The control algorithm should monitor the queue time limit WIP status and tool capacity under real-time conditions and give the relative tools the real-time control decision. However, the computational effort necessary to realize real-time monitoring can be very large. In general, decision results for queue time limit dispatching control can be updated every ten or fifteen minutes, or so. In other words, a periodic computation can be substituted for the real-time application when the computational requirements are inconvenient. The final output of the proposed algorithm can be a list of tool decisions that can provide a decision on whether or not a tool can process certain product lots (by technology) in a certain stage.
A specific example of the use of a tool will now be described. In this example, the output of a dispatch utilizing queue time limit dispatching control provides a list of queue time-start tools, technologies, stages, and go/no go decisions for queue time-start tools.
Tables 2 and 3 provide specific examples of how the algorithms described here can be implemented in a process. Referring first to Table 2, the first column shows the queue-time start tool or equipment group (or stage within a tool or equipment group). It is assumed that there are no time constraints as to when a lot should be processed at the start tool. The second column shows the queue time limit tools. The example of Table 2 shows five sequential queue time constraints. Any intervening tools, e.g., inspections or measurements, that do not affect the queue time constraints are not listed individually (but are included in the tolerances and processing time).
The queue time (QT) tolerance and processing time (PT) for each of three technologies (Tech 1, Tech 2 and Tech 3) are listed in the next columns. The QT tolerance and processing time parameters are obtained from the product technology routes and, as demonstrated in the tables, can vary for different process flows. In the example of a semiconductor foundry, the technologies could be based upon the minimum feature sizes (e.g., 150 nm, 180 nm or 250 nm) or product time (e.g., logic, memory or other).
The final columns provide the aggregate queue time tolerance AQT. These numbers can be calculated based upon the QT toleranace and processing time as shown in Equation 6 above. Once again, the AQT will typically vary for each product or process type.
The information provided in Table 2 can be utilized to determine which lots, if any, can be dispatched. For example, if the multiple processing demand time MPDT at tool a2 is equal to 18, then only lots with an aggregate queue time (AQT) greater than 18 can be processed. Referring to Table 2, this implies that lots from technology Tech 1 (18>15, where 15 is the AQT for Tech 1) and technology Tech 2 (18>17, where 17 is the AQT for 18 L) should not be processed at tool a2 at that moment.
Table 3 illustrates how the MPDT can be calculated. The example shows the calculation between four different pairs of tools. In this case, the total MPDT (column labeled "MPDT Sum") is calculated as the sum of the MPDT for each of the three technologies. The calculation of the MPDT is derived from Equation 2 (or Equation 3), which is based on the total queue WIP Q and the capacity λ of each tool an. The total queue WIP (Q (start, limit)) can be calculated by aggregating the queue WIP from the start to the limit tools as shown in Equation 4.
The capacity for tool an should be unified. For example, the factory might include a number of machines that perform the process of a tool. In that case, the throughput λ of the recipe for each lot at that tool will be the total of the throughput of all tools. For example, if five of the same machines perform a given function, then the throughput will be 5�WPH at each relative processing machine. When some machines are not available, the relative capacity should be changed to the available number of the corresponding tools. In the above example, if one tool is not available, then the throughput will be reduced to 4�WPH.
The scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, means, methods and steps described in the specification. As one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate from the disclosure of the present invention, processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed, that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized according to the present invention. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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They will be in addition to the two ships patrolling the International Maritime Boundary Line. Besides, scores of interceptor craft fitted with weapons including light machine guns and medium machine guns, two hovercraft and high-powered speedboats of Navy and the Coast Guard have been pressed into service.
Commodore Phillip Van Haltren, Naval Officer in-charge, Tamil Nadu, said the ships would reach Rameswaram in a day or two. They would patrol Palk Bay, Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar.
He would soon visit Rameswaram to review security arrangements and assess the requirements. Commodore Haltren said number of air sorties over the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait had been doubled. Two Naval aircraft were involved in the operation. The strength of marine commandos of the forward observation point at Arichamunai had been increased.


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Ah, Halloween. Old Hallow's Eve. When kids go door-to-door hoping to get bucket loads of candy. When parents watch nervously, hoping their kids don't end up knocking on the door of a convicted sex offender. When girls ages 18-35 get back at their father's by wearing something that would offend a Harlem pimp. Like most red-blooded men in this country, it's that third one that makes this holiday worth celebrating. Otherwise it's just a bunch of people with clown make-up painted across their faces sitting across from me at my office like I'm the A-hole for looking like a normal person.
That being said, as much as I love a sexy costume, I also do appreciate the really smart ones, the creative ones, the ones that make your jaw drop not because it's a sorority girl wearing less fabric than a handkerchief but because someone used their noggin to put something together that stands out from all the stupid Scream masks people buy for $8.99 and call it a day. So I searched far and wide for the best costumes that show, despite what insipid, regurgitated drech Hollywood churns out, there's still some originality left in the world.
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Two young couples driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
At first treating the race as a lark, the two couples become increasingly, and hilariously competitive as they near the finishing line.
A uniquely British delight from beginning to end, this film was a moneymaker in every country that it played, and a multi-award winner in England and abroad.
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The UNM Football team has a lot of question marks this season. One of them is at the running back position and that because the starting spot is up for grabs.
In the words of head coach Bob Davie, the depth at running back is thin and it's a concern right now for the Lobos. Kasey Carrier is gone and senior Crusoe Gongbay remains suspended from the team leaving Davie with a few options, but none of them standout above the others.
"Jhurrell Pressley is talented, but to say Jhurrell Pressley is going to go out there and play 12 football games consistently he hasn't done anything near that yet. Teriyon Gipson is a 175 pound guy who loves football and loves contact and will hit it up in there, but he's 175 pounds," said Davie.
Pressley and Gipson will likely share time with former Roswell standout David Anaya.
"We're all real good friends and we kind of hype up each other when we make a good play so we're all kind of for each other. We all just want to see each other do good," said Anaya.
"We each bring our own different style. I'm more quick, Dave likes to pound it. Jhurrell can do it all. We're all different kind of backs but we're all in for one common goal and that's to win games," said Teriyon Gipson.
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NEW DELHI: Different Delhi University colleges have offered a relaxation of 1 per cent to 10 per cent compared with the general candidates in the cut-off percentage for various courses to students from the Other Backward Classes.
The University has allocated nearly 10,183 seats for the OBC candidates in the wake of 27 per cent reservation for that category.
For B.Com. (Programme) the cut-off for OBCs is 83.75-88 per cent at Gargi College. The same course is available at Kirori Mal College for 91-95 per cent.
The cut-off for B.Com. (Hons.) at Shri Ram College of Commerce for OBC students is 90.75-94.25 per cent, while for Economics it stands at 90.5-93.5 this year.
For B. Com (Hons.), the cut-off has come down from 94.25-98.25 per cent in the general category to 92.25-96.25 per cent for OBCs at KMC.
To pursue Political Science (Hons.) will require 67-79 per cent at Gargi College, 88-90 per cent at Hindu College and 87.5 per cent at LSR.
At Miranda House, the cut-off for courses in B.A. (Programme) has come down by 10 per cent from 82-87 for general students to 72-77 for the OBCs.
For the same course, Maitreyi College too has offered a 9 per cent relaxation for OBC candidates by making it available at 65-80 per cent.
At Hans Raj College, Physics (Hons.) and Chemistry (Hons.) are available at 85 and 76 per cent, respectively.
I.P. College has reduced the cut-off for B.Sc. Computer Science (Hons.) from 89-94 for general category to 85-90 for OBC candidates.
For OBC students, Sri Venkateshwara College has dropped its cut-off by 4 per cent each in Botany (72 per cent) and Zoology (77 per cent).


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Couldn't find anything about this on the forums. I might have found a "back door"(?) to get my Transunion (my worst) credit score from Lending Club, but I'm not sure if it's a FICO or a FAKO (which I can get from my USAA) ... My TU still has an outstanding collection that is days from falling off, and I remember when attempting a loan a while ago, lendingclub.com pulls a credit score and tells you what it is immedilatey if you are denied. On their site they mention several times that it's a soft pull until you actually close on the loan (verified as I do not have any lendingclub HPs on my report). So the results page shows this:
- Your credit score: 608
- Date of Credit Report Pull: Thursday, Jul 12, 2012
- Scores range from 300 to 850
- Key factors that adversely affected your credit score:
- Serious delinquency, and public record or collection filed
- Too few accounts currently paid as agreed
- Number of accounts with delinquency
- Lack of recent installment loan information
that range looks to be FICO and I thought I saw someone else once say it was TU98 but can't find the post.. can anyone confirm if this is FICO or FAKO? My walmart was below this prior to one of my other collections falling off, so this would coincide with a raise in score if it is.....
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It's a TU FICO....same TU98 version as on here.
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I wondered the same thing regarding the TU fico...also apped w lending club, and score showed 667 ...my fico TU 689. denial also due to cc chsrged off but has 73 dollar balance
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When you apply for credit and are denied, if the denial was based in whole or in part upon a credit report they pulled, the creditor is required to provide the consumer with the name of the CRA from which they received the credit report, and advise the consumer of their right to send a copy of the denial letter to the CRA within 60 days to receive a free copy of their credit report from that CRA, FCRA 615. The creditor is not required to provide a copy of the pulled CR to the consumer. That provision extends only to credit reports, not credit scores. Their advisement of a credit score is optional, with no requirement to identity the provider of the score.
The requirement to disclose the source of a score only applies to credit reports that you order from the CRA.
Under FCRA 609(f), the CRA is required to identity the source of the scoring model used, but not the specific details of the model.
If the source was their own model, which is the normal case, they must additioally provide the range of possible scores under their model, and the key factors that affected the score.
However, if the score they provide was developed by a third party, such as FICO, they need only provide the name and contact for the source, and need not provide any additional information, such as the range of scores or adverse factors. FCRA 609(f)(5). You need to independtly contact that third party for that information.
In the posted situation, the creditor provided more than was required under the statute. To request more than already provided, such as TU98, is beyond that.
I see no reason for the creditor not to informally provide you that info if they know the name of the model, but they have no requirement to do so.


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Corpo Tax Breaks Finally = Discretionary Spending
What that means is that all the money the govt has to spend exclusive of fixed costs is now equal to the amount of money in tax breaks given to corporations. Dig:
In 2013, the cost of tax breaks was equal to the entire U.S. discretionary budget [1]. However, the discretionary budget is subject to an annual appropriations process, where Congress debates the proposed spending. Tax breaks, on the other hand, remain on the books until lawmakers modify them. As a result, over a trillion dollars a year in lost revenue – more than 1.6 times the 2013 budget deficit – goes largely unnoticed.
The cost of corporate tax breaks has trended upward in recent decades, totaling nearly $176 billion in fiscal 2013. In other words, the overall U.S. corporate tax bill was $176 billion lower than it would have been without the special deductions, credits, and exclusions written into our tax code. To put that in perspective, that's about $1,328 per U.S. household. [2]
Which is bad news, right? Wrong! Look at that other box. That's the deficit and it's only 2/3 what the tax breaks are worth. So, when you get all frantic anxious about how the deficit is ruining the economy like FauxNews keeps telling you, just know that we can fix it in a single year by canceling some – not all, just some – of the tax breaks corporations that don't actually need them have blackmailed the Congress into. See, easy!
Oh, who am I kidding? This will never happen. Case in point, a Republican named David Camp, Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Paul Ryan at the House Budget Committee have both submitted Tax Reform bills intended to "reform" the tax code to varying degrees. What? Republicans reforming the tax code to eliminate corporate tax breaks? Has the world turned upside down?
All of them claim to "reform" a discredited cesspool of a tax code, of course, but they have also been submitted in an election year. The GOP, if it knows nothing else (and it doesn't), knows how to get credit for proposing popular legislation they don't actually want at a time when there is no chance whatever for it to pass.
It doesn't matter how easy the fix is if the fix is anathema to the Congress' owners.
A Calm, Rational Conversation
From Digby, who really ought to know better by now.
And once we cut the deficit by doing nothing and everyone has pulled themselves together after this collective panic attack, we can all sit down and have a rational discussion about long term health care costs and fixing that little shortfall in Social Security.
Isn't that cute? She thinks we can still have one of those. She thinks there's enough left of our brains after 20 years of Fox that we still remember what rational discussion is.
Of course, it's possible she's being sarcastic. I hadn't thought of that.
Obama to Use Haiti to Rehabilitate George W (Updated)
As if poor Haiti didn't have enough trouble, President Obama plans to send George W Bush, the man who took the disaster of Katrina and made it into a top-notch tragedy of epic proportions just to destroy a bastion of GOP political opponents, to Haiti to help straighten things out.
President Obama is asking his two immediate predecessors – George W. Bush and Bill Clinton – to come together to lead the nation's humanitarian and relief efforts to Haiti in the wake of the earthquake that has ravaged the Caribbean island.
The partnership is expected to be announced by the White House in the coming days, after officials have a better handle on the full scope of the devastation. Mr. Obama called Mr. Bush on Wednesday, aides to both men said, and Mr. Bush agreed to do whatever he could to help.
OK, so Clinton will be there, too. The Dynamic Duo? I don't think so. Clinton knows govt and could help lobby for aid and clear away red tape. All Bush knos how to do in a disaster is stand in front of it and promise money he has no intention of delivering. So "whatever he can do to help" means photo-ops and empty promises?
Against Naivete
Also known as "innocence" or "prolonged ignorance", it is often encased in infantilism.
Shortly after the First World War, John Dos Passos declared in his seminal novel 1919 "the death of innocence in America". It became a catchphrase, the summation of America's sudden blasted knowledge of a world – Europe – from which it had always considered itself safely distant. The world had shrunk, Dos Passos was saying, and the USA had finally been drawn into it. We were part of a global reality whether we liked it or not. American men, after all, had died fighting a war that had started in Europe over European beligerences.
Needless to say, Dos Passos' declaration of the death was premature and greatly exaggerated. It may have been clear to him and to the rest of that post-war generation of writers and political thinkers that the nation could no longer afford the luxury of the isolationism we had practiced with relief since the War of 1812, but as a people it turned out we had no intention of religuishing the useless but comforting ignorance that allowed us to escape responsibility for anything that happened on the world stage.
"Innocence", either the loss of or the retaining of, became a major theme of the Roaring 20's. Rather than embrace our new knowledge, we turned our backs on it and…played. From the self-involved if indistinct longing of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby for easy pickings and no regrets to the open admiration of Capone and the Wild West he made of the Chicago streets as if the consequences could be shrugged off as easily as a viewing of a Hollywood gangster film, we clung to our native "innocence" as if it were armor plating against adulthood. We shrugged off responsibility, if anything, much more casually than our attachment to films and their stars. We shut our eyes and turned up our noses whenever "serious people" warned that Wall Street was having us on and the whole thing was going to come crashing down. When it finally did, we felt hurt, betrayed, as if a parental promise of an endless playtime had been reneged on without reason. We pouted.
There Might Be Reasons None of the Bushies Can Find Jobs
Nobody seems to want to hire poor Gonzo and David Addington's having trouble finding a job, too. In fact the whole Bush Gang seems to have been elevated to Pariah Status. SPI's David Horsey offers one explanation.
Actually, in true Bushie fashion, the witch doctor is lying. He wasn't Bush's science advisor. He was Bush's economics advisor. This is Bush's science advisor:
What If the Arguments Defending the Bush Criminals Were Applied to Everyone?
This is what you'd hear in your average courtroom if justice for the Bushies was justice for all:
Prosecutor: And so Mr Rummysfelt has admitted that he knocked an elderly woman on the head with a tire iron in order to steal her purse after she cashed her Social Security check.
Judge:(to Defense) So your client is pleading guilty?
Defense: No, Your Honor, my client isn't pleading at all. My client wants the charges dropped. (more…)


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