Quality Engineer
Quality engineers support an IC product throughout its life cycle- cradle to grave. Protecting an end customer from a defective product represents the embodiment of this engineer’s role. Their partnership with product, design and test engineers can take different forms depending upon their employer- fabless, OSAT, foundry, IDM. And a yield management system supports successful partnerships. Quality engineers benefit from modules that support monitoring of statistical process control KPIs, developing outlier detection tests, and managing the containment for field failures.
A yield management systems’ ability to automate for unexpected deviations alerts quality engineers to a potential problem. This enables them to hold a lot for disposition or walk into a daily yield management meeting and state “we might have a problem and I need your help to figure out if its real or not.” With commonality analysis techniques built into the product yield reporting module, quality engineers can promptly set up some queries to look at potential root causes. Their time is spent on their engineering role not on scripting queries. More important though quality engineers have no doubts about the veracity and completeness of the data because yieldWerx yield management system makes it so.
Modules:
- Outlier Detection, Post Test Regression/Virtual Test (currently Part Average Testing)
- Cross Work Center Correlation
- SPC/SBL/SYL
- RMA Containment
- Lot control & Disposition & Smart Wafer Merge