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The Power of Special Cause Variation: Learning from Process Changes

Special cause variation, I love to see it! That’s because I know I’m about to learn something important about my process. A ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Clinical Process Variation: Effect on Quality and Cost of Care

Conclusions: Clinical processes used to provide initial visits for OC services varied demonstrably across study sites, generating variation in cost with little impact on clinical quality or patient ...
Machine Design

Process Capable Tolerancing

Quality costs may consume 25% of total revenues in manufacturing businesses, mostly from rework, scrap, warranty, product-liability claims, and recalls. The Six Sigma quality initiative helps ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Cutting Clock Costs On The Bleeding Edge Of Process Nodes

In a recent study done by McKinsey and IDC, we see that physical design and verification costs are increasing exponentially with shrinking transistor sizes. As figure 1 shows, physical design (PD) and ...
EDN

On-chip variation and timing closure

New SOC (system-on-chip) process technology brings with it some process, voltage, and temperature effects, as well as IR drop, which all impact timing closure. Designers can model the on-chip ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Process Variation And Aging

Experts at the Table, part 2: How the very fast progress of the semiconductor industry is making transistor aging even more difficult. Elhak: Yes. If you take the same transistor with the same stress ...