The plan agreed with a customer for qualifying the tool for volume production in their fab: which processes, wafers, metrics, statistical criteria and sign-off steps are needed.
Plan Work product in the Semiconductor equipment lifecycle
It defines the path from a working beta tool to one the customer will release into production. Repeated qualification runs, shifting criteria and a supplier unable to predict the first volume order are what an agreed plan prevents.
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