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Semiconductor manufacturing is arguably the most complex of manufacturing environments. Reasons for this include tightly constrained production processes, reentrant process flows, expensive sophisticated equipment, variable demand, high levels of automation and an ocean of data. Semiconductor manufacturing is a key industry in leading nations and contributes substantially, both directly and indirectly (via business services, for example), to the global economy. With the emergence of highly automated wafer fabrication facilities (fabs), there is a compelling trend to develop automation and intelligent manufacturing to integrate with advanced decision technologies (such as Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, and big data analytics).

• Promote basic and applied research in semiconductor manufacturing and automation.
• Provide a forum for exchanging ideas among semiconductor manufacturing researchers and domain experts
• Facilitate related scientific publications and events (such as MASM and ISMI conferences, special conference sessions, workshops, symposia, and special issues for leading journals)

https://www.ieee-ras.org/semiconductor-manufacturing-automation