Statistical Process Control (SPC)

This SPC Course is intended to introduce SPC to manufacturing and engineering personnel working in the semiconductor industry. This course is confined to the type of data gathering that is predominately used in the monitoring of semiconductor manufacturing processes. The purpose of this course is to clearly explain all of the basic principles of SPC, teach the student how to implement SPC and explain how to interpret SPC Control Charts.


This and all other courses are offered as On Site Training

WHAT THE COURSE COVERS:
  • Pre Test of SPC Knowledge
  • Introduction to SPC and terms
  • Benefits of SPC in manufacturing and impact to quality
  • Normal distributions and the bell curve
  • What is 6 Sigma, Cp, Cpk
  • Calculation of Sigma and determining control limits
  • Gage Capability - Team Exercise "Bean Counter"
  • Types of data (Variable, Attribute)
  • Control charting of variable data and out of control conditions
  • Attribute data, binomial distributions and histograms (Brief Exercise - Coin Flip)
  • Review and Final Test

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
  • Fab Operators
  • Process Technicians
  • Process Engineers
  • Manufacturing Supervisors
  • Equipment Engineers and Technicians
  • Quality Support Personnel
  • Quality Assurance
  • Manufacturing Operators
  • Marketing and Sales
  • Customer Support
  • The course is an overview of SPC for everyone who is new to the subject. If you use SPC in your work, are curious about the meaning of SPC or are interested in implementing SPC, this course is for you!
This course includes an SPC manual filled with color illustrations.


INSTRUCTOR:

Jim Barrilleaux began in the Semiconductor business in 1986 working at Honeywell (now the Atmel facility) as a photolithography engineer in Colorado Springs. This site was just implementing SPC at that time and the challenges of what to measure and how to measure were concurred. During this time he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In 1989 Jim moved to his current location to work in fabrication at Motorola in Austin, Texas. Starting in photolithography Jim quickly absorbed responsibility for the pre-metal etch operations and metrology for critical dimensions. After years in the fab an opening was available in quality engineering solving customer issues. While at Motorola Jim led and participated on many quality teams and lead a TQM (Total Quality Manufacturing) initiative for the group.

In 1995 Jim left Motorola to take up a career in sales to the semiconductor industry that included selling chemicals used in the processing and the equipment used in the fab. Since 2000 he has also been teaching SPC at Motorola as well as 8D problem solving, and developed a course for Dell titled BPI (Business Process Improvement) for manufacturing. Currently Jim continues to work as a consultant doing sales development and training for the semiconductor industry.



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