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Data Mining Applied to Any Fab Tool Data
- Using File Conversion, Reporting and SPC Analysis Tools
Orange, CA - September, 1999 - Jon Goldman Associates
(JGA) introduces Data Mining for any Fab tool. A new GOLDMAN
DATA™ Generator Kit uses any data your fab tools already provide
and converts it into a format that allows it to be used with
the Goldman System™ -- JGA’s extensive software library of
Data Mining utilities.
The Kit includes the ActiveX™ file control tools you need
to build a Visual Basic application to convert your data to
GOLDMAN DATA™. The Kit includes sample software code. JGA
also provides semi-custom programming services to deliver
completed file conversion utilities. Once the data files are
in GOLDMAN DATA format, they can be analyzed using the entire
suite of Goldman System Workstation, Client and Server utilities.
These provide SQL database and maintenance utilities to fuel
trend analysis and user access to data. Any tool data file
can be analyzed by simply pointing to it. Critical Event and
Alert Condition criteria, set by the user, are applied to
the data. A key to the Goldman System is the ability of the
system to notify the user of an alert violation or critical
event.
Notification can include paging personnel, sending email,
signaling from a light tower or by disabling equipment. Reports
can be scheduled to print at specific times on chosen days.
Universal System Tools™ provide access to the data and range
from basic process run data viewing tools to sophisticated
process management and SPC utilities. For use with any Windows
NT PC on the network, the package consists of File Navigator,
Graphics Utility, SPC Administrator, ReportViewer, trendviewer
2000 and AlertViewer.
File Navigator organizes and maintains data files in a logical
and accessible fashion. Graphics Utility provides versatility
and power for analyzing trace data. The SPC Administrator
configures the Critical Event and Alert Condition criteria
used by the Report Generator for its SPC calculations. They
can be viewed with Report Viewer. trendviewer 2000 enables
the user to create and store custom queries to search the
database. AlertViewer provides detailed information about
the number and types of SPC alerts generated by the process
equipment over specified time intervals with the aim of highlighting
abnormal variations.
Jon Goldman Associates, based in Orange, CA, has been
providing data mining software solutions to the semiconductor
industry for over ten years. Founder and President Dr. Jon
Goldman has been serving the semiconductor industry for more
than 25 years. He is the holder of several patents, including
LPCVD deposition of Silicon Nitride, LTO, and BPSG. JGA's
data analysis tools are widely used in the industry by both
end users and equipment manufacturers to reduce down time
and wafer scrap by implementing and improving SPC control.
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