Technology transfer at Internet speed

You are the factory manager with two processes running, a third scheduled to ramp down and a fourth scheduled to startup. Then the new loadings forecast comes out and you discover that the process your factory was going to ramp down is ramping up and the new process startup has been pulled in. Is your factory flexible enough to commit to the new loadings forecast and still meet the startup schedule? There is only one way to find out, you go to the Internet and consult the Route and Tool Readiness (RTR) System. The Route and Tool Readiness system is a spreadsheet-based system accessible from the Intel Intranet, which links information from several different sources to give an integrated view of a startup project. These include tool schedules, route information, throughput time data and engineering contact names. As the time between process development and process transfer into manufacturing continues to decrease, the RTR system becomes more critical. It enables factory management to successfully deal with last-minute technology changes during transfer as well as sudden shifts in market demand between multiple technologies. At the same time, it makes technology transfer projects more productive, accurate, and faster.