The tool's reliability, availability and maintainability targets and their allocation to subsystems, set when the architecture is frozen.
Requirements Work product in the Semiconductor equipment lifecycle
Uptime is a large part of a customer's cost of ownership. These targets make reliability a design requirement from the start; without them, subsystems are designed for function only and reliability is fixed late at high cost.
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