Corporate Quality Culture Enhancement
To enhance corporate quality culture with continual improvements on product quality, production efficiency and cost reduction, TSMC fully promoted the "Suggestion" in basic level and the activities of "Continual Improvement Team (CIT)". TSMC also held a corporate-level "Total Quality Excellence and Innovation conference". In 2017, there were 42,056 suggestions issued at the grass roots level, and a total of 2,020 continual improvement team activities were registered and implemented. Among them, 45% of continual improvement team activities focused on product quality enhancement.
Examples in 2017 Total Quality Excellence and Innovation Conference
| Group | Cases | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Enhancement | To improve the methods in Lithography processes | Enhanced product yield to 99.7% |
| To improve the methods in Integrated Fan-Out (InFO) clean process | Improved test reject rate 88% | |
| To improve the methods in Furnace process | Reduced product defect 75% | |
| To improve the methods in 3D image sensor Etching process | Enhanced image sensor quality 50% | |
| Customer Satisfaction | To develop 40nm Ultra Low Power technology | Improved customer product power performance 80% |
| To establish innovative design service platform for stacked CMOS image sensors | Shortened customer product development schedule 70% | |
| Environment, Safety, Health | To reduce 8-inch Fab carbon emissions and save energy | Reduced CO2 emissions by 63,500 tons and reduced the use of electricity 60,290,000 kilowatt-hours annually |
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