Paul Fego, vice president of worldwide manufacturing at Texas Instruments, and John Scoville, senior director of application engineering at Applied Materials, are slated to be the keynote speakers at  the ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness, the International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) consortium announced. ISMI’s Manufacturing Week is set for Oct. 17-21 in Austin.

Paul Fego

Fego will open the symposium Oct.  19 with a keynote entitled “Building Blocks for an Efficient and Effective Manufacturing Model.” Fego will cover the entire chain of events that must happen to make a factory work well and deliver on time.

John Scoville

On Oct. 20, Applied Materials’ John Scoville will give the opening keynote, “Predictability as a Key Component of Productivity: The Move Towards Smart Yield.” Scoville will identify the goals that must be addressed in order to achieve a continuously optimized vision of the future that includes simulation in lock-step with reality, and achieving fab control of all systems according to common productivity and cost-reduction targets.

Along with a wide-range of short courses and workshops and an exhibition showcasing the latest tools and solutions from some of the industry’s top suppliers, Manufacturing Week will cover factory and equipment productivity, AEC/APC, cost reduction, green manufacturing, emerging ESH regulations, nanomaterials biosafety, factory modeling, and statistical methods, among others. Registration is open, with a description of the various short courses and workshops planned for the week.

Tags: Applied Materials, ISMI, texas instruments

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