Labor modeling in a dynamic environment

Abstract

Knowing the current labor needs of your fab is an awareness; knowing the labor needs of your fab in the future is a science and an art. Keeping accurate and up-to-date labor modeling is vital to the health of a manufacturing organization, especially in a highly cost-competitive environment. AMD's Fab 25 recognizes the need to understand the labor components in our cost structure and the necessity to control this delicate element. Using both an analytical and research approach to a difficult problem, we successfully built a labor model for Fab 25.