Term · General Industry
Tribal knowledge
Undocumented know-how that lives in the heads of experienced staff, such as which corner really limits a block or which tester setup is unreliable. Valuable and dangerous in equal measure because it leaves with the person.
- Also known as
- Institutional knowledge
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- General Industry, Engineering culture
Notes
Fabs are especially dependent on it, since decades of process tweaks are often better captured in operator practice than in documents.
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