LSI Logic's Gresham, Oregon, Campus Earns ISO-9002 Certification For Manufacturing Quality
GRESHAM, Ore., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that its new manufacturing campus here has earned an International Standards Organization (ISO-9002) certification. The ISO-9002 rating means that LSI Logic maintains effective controls for ensuring a high degree of manufacturing quality.
LSI Logic's Gresham custom semiconductor manufacturing facility employs the company's advanced G11(TM) process technology for customers in the consumer electronics, networking, telecom-wireless, computer, storage components and storage systems markets.
"As semiconductor designs become increasingly complex, with greater levels of on-chip functionality, customers expect a very high level of quality from their suppliers," said Norm Armour, vice president and general manager of LSI Logic's Gresham operations. "The ISO-9002 certification validates that LSI Logic follows a clear and consistent set of procedures in its manufacturing operations, from purchasing new capital equipment to specifying how a machine should process a customer order."
The ISO-9000 standards, created in Europe in 1987, are designed to provide companies with consistent guidelines for product design and development, sales and service, manufacturing and final testing.
An independent company, British Standards Institute (BSI), conducted a six-day inspection of LSI Logic's Gresham semiconductor-manufacturing operation. During the audit, the BSI team examined LSI Logic's system controls -- the foundation for the company's highly automated manufacturing operation.
"Those controls tell how we build products, how we make specification changes, how we purchase equipment and how we rate our own suppliers' quality systems," said Garry Nash, quality director at LSI Logic's Gresham campus. "The audit team also looked at how we set our internal quality goals and how we measure ourselves against those goals."
LSI Logic's Gresham factory commenced manufacturing on Nov. 30, and is currently producing approximately 1,000 eight-inch wafers per week. The state-of-the-art chip facility will eventually produce 3,500 wafers per week.
"With the Gresham facility in the early stages of production, this certification is very important in assuring our customers that we have effective and efficient systems in place in order to maintain a high-quality manufacturing operation," said Joe Zelayeta, executive vice president of worldwide operations at LSI Logic.
In addition to its Gresham manufacturing campus, LSI Logic's fabs in Japan and Colorado are also ISO-certified. |
