文档介绍：IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, VOL. 46, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 1999 417
Challenges of Integration in
Semiconductor Manufacturing Firms
Diane E. Bailey
Abstract— Manufacturing efforts to reduce time to market and determine its manufacture. A number of sources (.,
often adopt a concurrent engineering approach that focuses [27], [30]) contrast these two groups in terms of salient
on coordination and integration among engineering, production, features such as the time constraints under which they operate
and marketing functions. plexity in the semi-
conductor industry requires an extension of this paradigm to (long for design engineers, short for manufacturing ones) and
include multiple engineering groups and a strong production their orientation (design engineers are creative, manufacturing
maintenance department. Through interviews with employees engineers are pragmatic). It is widely accepted that the two
drawn from engineering, production, maintenance, marketing, groups are differentiated from one another, but that integration
and other departments at three semiconductor plants, organiza- between them is desirable for essful product design and
tional problems are uncovered that inhibit essful integration
within firms in this industry. Ideas for ing these problems manufacture.
are given with suggestions for future research. However, the use of a broad term like “manufacturing engi-
neers” cloaks major differences anizational boundaries
Index Terms— Concurrent engineering, integration, semicon-
ductor manufacturing. that can exist within the category. Particularly in industries
with highly specialized plex manufacturing processes,
many different types of engineers may work in the area of
I. INTRODUCTION manufacturing. Semiconductor manufacturing, which serves
ONCURRENT engineering focuses on the integration as the setting for this study and which features tremendous
Cof engineering, production, and marketing functions plexity