https://youtu.be/Fmj5r8ws2Mw
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You are correct. That fab is gone. They have been actively searching for new work and projects. Even the workers are trying think outside of box and drum up new work. Which is sad - poor leadership and management yet again having subordinates try to come up with new things. :(
It will be real interesting to see what happens there after July 29.
Burlington should probably be more concerned with being sold off, or just shut down. Ancient fab with ancient people.
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Come on. Do you think people go get their various marketing degrees from prestigious universities and their first choice is Globalfoundries?? As soon as they get handed their diploma they scream “I am going to go work at GF!! Woo hoo!”
No of course not. They want to go to respectable prestigious and well known businesses. Those who can’t get into these places end up in companies like GF. None of the primer high level candidates come here willingly. So GF ends up with D LEAGUE of this field and other fields really. And stuff like this is the result. The guy who didn’t pay attention in class and got straight Cs thought it would be cute. And sure it is, but not the look a professional business wants to portray. That’s just it, Globalfoundries doesn’t behave professionally. It tries real hard to pretend and act like it, but when rubber hits the road it is not. And it’s because our composition is that of people who just don’t get it or care.
Another great example would be our new logo and branding released last year. Holy sh-t it’s terrible and ugly. It looks like something my thirteen year old put together last minute when he realized he had an assignment due the next day. Sadly we probably paid millions for it too.
fab9 is so confusing... they make step forwards like this, but are absolute luddites in other areas
Yea - sure robots could replace the mundane tasks. We already have that with the FOUP/FOSB tracks transporting wafers tool to tool. But getting down into nitty gritty of tool operation, maintenance and repair you probably will never replace a human and human thinking/logic. I know I am preaching to choir here, but real tool operators know each tool has its own quirks and identities and behaviors that you won’t find in any manual.
This story is just another stupid gimmick raff is trying to make GF look cutting edge, but comes off childish and goofy. Please GF marketing make us look professionals! Our peers already think of us as an amateur hour clown show :/
This probably seemed like a great idea to all the people stuck in the 20th century up there in Burlington.
You can replace an expensive, maintenance intensive human with an expensive, maintenance intensive robot. Same task with roughly the same information gathered at roughly the same interval. Except now instead of having anyone who can fog a mirror complete this work, you need to attract and !retain! folks who can teach and maintain Spot.
Those of us from plants built this century might ask why you don't digitize some sample of the relevant sensors and connect them via SEMI standard techniques for 24/7 monitoring and automated actions. I can buy a ridiculous number of DAQ IoT boards and digital pressure transducers for the cost of one Spot, and I can collect data from them in real time with no AI and essentially zero maintenance.
Bonus points for all the people in that video who've probably never seen subfab equipment in person.