In collaboration with ISSM, this joint Symposium attends to recent technological advancements to align the needs of designers, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, software vendors, solution providers and researchers. It offers a public arena for the exchange of up-to-date experiences among manufacturers for adoption of technological developments. With green notions of supply/engineering/value chains, coverage of the joint symposium includes, but not limited to, the following topics of interests:

* Advanced Lithography
* Benefits and Justification (ROI, CoO, OEE ...)
* Contamination Control and Ultraclean Technology
* Control Architecture/Engineering/IT Infrastructure
* Cross-industrial Applications of PV/SSL/FPD/…
* Data Collection/Quality/Storage/Management
* Design for Manufacturing/Testing/Yield
* e-Diagnostics, e-Manufacturing, and EEC
* Engineering/Supply/Value Chains
* Environment, Safety and Health
* Equipment Control/Integration
* Fab Management/Scheduling/Dispatching
* Factory Design & Automated Material Handling
* Factory Integration/Operations
* Factory Physics & Queueing Operations
* Fault Detection/Classification and Sensors
* Final/Lean/Green Manufacturing
* Manufacturing Control and Execution Systems
* Manufacturing Strategy and Operation Management
* Next Generation Factory & 450mm Wafers
* Predictive/Preventive Maintenance
* Process and Material Optimization
* Process and Metrology Equipment
* Process Control and Monitoring
* Process Modeling and Model-Based Simulations
* Process/Tool/Sensor Integrations
* Standards (Equipment, Communications, …)
* Through Silicon Via & 3D Structures
* Ultra High Productivity in High-Volume Manufacturing
* Yield Enhancement and WIP Management