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New improved recipe
ISMI provides “Golden Reference” for Recipe and Parameter Management (RaP) implementation
International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) announced that it will provide royalty free industry access to a design standard article for RaP. This fully functional software application implements and conforms to the SEMI E139 Rap standard. The RaP standard was developed to help the semiconductor industry improve the increasingly complex management of equipment recipes and recipe parameters in its factories. Equipment recipes are the detailed instructions executed by production equipment to manufacture microchips.
This “reference implementation” of RaP was developed in collaboration with Alan Weber & Associates, and is offered to help the industry create new implementations of RaP for production equipment and factory control systems at lower cost and with higher quality, and to promote seamless interoperability. It can take the role of either factory or equipment in a communications link, facilitating evaluation of production software during development and later during customer acceptance.
“This new tool, along with implementation guidance already available from ISMI, allows first-time implementers to leap past the normal pitfalls and produce a quality RaP product quickly and efficiently,” said Alan Weber, president of Alan Weber & Associates.
The release of the RaP Reference Implementation (RRI) signals completion of ISMI’s effort to provide the semiconductor industry with improved recipe management support. ISMI has also sponsored prototypes and early implementations of RaP and offers the collective lessons learned as implementation guidance to the industry.
“Traditional recipe management approaches cannot consistently handle production complexities, resulting in costly processing errors and equipment setup delays,” said Scott Kramer, director of ISMI. “RaP is a key component of our next generation factory concept.”
