Study On Semiconductor Test Equipment Selection

Accompanied with development of economic globalization and intension of marketcompetition, all the large enterprises are now confronting more and more competitionpressure. The competition among enterprises is actually from the competition frombusiness cost. Survival or not, standing out from other competitors or not, are actuallydepending on the cost control and management. The selection of production equipment,as the core area on equipment management, creates the precondition for all theenterprises. The right selection of equipment model can make the capacity utilizationrate improved and the maintenance cost declined. Thus we can obtain the best solutionfrom economization of life cycle cost of equipment and make the business profitmaximized, improve the competence of enterprises. The in-depth study of whole lifecycle cost on equipment selection is the demand of cost management, project decisionand innovation of management conception as well.This thesis is based on the semiconductor production equipment’s selection, withanalysis of our daily common working problems, under the guidance of whole life cyclemanagement theory, systematic engineering theory and cost-benefit theory. It alsosystematically made an in-depth study on the general principle of semiconductorproduction equipment’s selection, operation procedure, evaluation system and decisionmodule. The selection way is at the core issue,“life span cycle cost”, with considerationto technical features of equipment, service warranty and environment, etc. Theapplication of Analytic Hierarchy Process combines the qualitative and quantitativeindexes and makes a systematic and completed evaluation on semiconductor testingequipment.