300 mm Wafer Fab Tool Install & Hookup
Fourteen hundred process tools are being installed and hooked up in a 300 mm wafer fab, each scheduled from move-in to first wafer.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Texas
- Market
- Semiconductor
- Capital value
- $890M
- Size
- 1,400 tools
- Delivery
- EPCM
- Duration
- 30 months
- Status
- In progress · 2026
What is at stake.
Tool install is the most crowded phase of a fab. Each tool needs utilities, exhaust, chemicals and qualification, often from different contractors. Without a tool-level schedule, the critical path changes every week and nobody sees it move.
How we control it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers are doing on this project.
Tool-level logic
Each tool has its own chain: set, hook-up, utilities, safety sign-off and qualification, linked to the systems that feed it.
Data from the field
Hook-up progress comes from field data daily and updates the schedule, so status is never more than a day old.
Constraint reports
A weekly report lists every tool waiting on something, sorted by the impact on first wafer.
P6 administration
We run the P6 environment, user access and update process for the whole tool-install team.
Where it stands.
On a fab, the critical path moves every week. You only see it if every tool has its own logic and the data is fresh.
Lead scheduler, EvrardBanes
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