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To: semiconeng who wrote (73868)	3/7/2002 12:04:01 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Semi, I once toured a factory in Japan that made tuners. A fully automated low light plant and it had varying numbers of machines for each task such that the throughput was the same for each group of machines. The feed was handled automatically and the output from one machine entered a queue for the first available next machine so it was not a continuous production line in the Ford sense(where if one station stopped the line stopped) This line went 24/7 and there were service guys who went to error points and did the fix. All the while the error machine was out of the loop and production carried on, albeit a bit slower. Is this how they work at Dresden? Since with the pods any production can be routed around any error machine? or are there considerationns, like vaccuum continuity that do not permit this? Are the pods capable of a vacuum in transit, so they leave a process under cavuum and enter another also under vacuum through vacuum locks with pumpdown? I speculate, since dust will settle in a vacuum pod and will stay suspended in a gas filled pod. Bill

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