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AGI Modeling Projects

Project / Location	Scope of Work
RPO Pty, Ltd. Australia 2006	Capacity and Cost Modeling • Flexible Touch Screen System for Consumer Electronics Application
Confidential Client California, USA 2005-2006	Capacity and Cost Modeling • MEMS Display Process and Product Mix Modeling for Development Line
Saratoga Economic Development Corp. (SEDC) / Luther Forest Technology Campus Saratoga, NY 2004 – 2006	Fab Site Location – Net Present Cost Model • Compared world-wide locations of 300mm fab sites • Evaluated impact of incentives including tax abatement, investment, and alternate project financing • Modeled specific sites for potential clients
Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 2003-2005	ASU Flexible Display Center Start Up • Joint venture between Army Research Labs, Arizona State University, and other university / industrial partners • Established need for modeling of flexible display backplane costs based on previous modeling for USDC, Army and Industry needs for flexible backplane foundry • Established tool cost model for 6 inch wafer tools and Gen 2 substrate tools • Developed cost and pricing plan to support  University business model for multi-user Cleanroom  and Company Headquarters type facility • Developed plan for flexible display cost model with 5 to 10 year horizon to support Army program and future foundry for flexible displays
University of California at Riverside Riverside, California 2003-2005	Bourns Hall Nanotechnology Cleanroom and FIB Center • Developed CARME operational cost model for University nanotechnology cleanroom and FIB area • Balanced cost and recharge rates over 5 year outlook for establishing cleanroom user and staff growth • Benchmarked other UC Cleanroom cost and charge-out rates • Established key tool vendor negotiations to capitalize maintenance and warranty costs to alleviate operating costs.
Duke University Durham, North Carolina 2003-2004	CIEMAS Cleanroom (Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering and Medical Applied Sciences) • Developed CARME operational cost model for University cleanroom and characterization areas. • Includes facility base usage charge, special tool charge and personnel services charges • Benchmarked other shared user facilities
US Display Consortium San Jose, CA 2005 – 2006	Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Cost Model for Flexible Displays • Update 2003 study including current industry information on Process Flows, Tools and Materials
US Display Consortium San Jose, CA 2002 – 2003	Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Cost Model for Flexible Displays • Cost model includes equipment research and layouts for active and passive matrix and OLED/PLEDs. o Process types and their associated capabilities in terms of device dimensions, temperature requirements, throughput rate, and layer-to-layer registration. o Roll-to-Roll tool and handling characteristics important to meet process and production criteria o Tool and equipment types with reasonably established flexible substrate and roll-to-roll capabilities, and their estimated prices o Possible factory layouts and tool groupings for flexible substrate processing, using roll-to-roll processes where possible o Estimated cleanliness in terms of clean class and local minienvironments needed for processing o Estimated cost to create a roll to roll factory for flexible displays with the parameters described above
US Display Consortium San Jose, CA 1998	Horizontal vs. Vertical Flat Panel Processing Study • Cost analysis of transition to vertical material handling. • Cost modeling of transition from generation 3.5 to generation 5 substrates utilizing AGI’s Jupiter^© software.
US Display Consortium San Jose, CA	Commercialization of Factory Planner^TM Software for FPD Factory Simulation and Modeling. • Development of integrated factory planning software, including layout, capacity, automation, and cost of ownership analysis. • Validation of AMLCD and FED factory models. • Includes plate matching analysis.
US Display Consortium San Jose, CA 1994 - 2002	• 12.1” AMLCD Notebook Display FAB Cost Model • Web Based Processing Team Member • Glass Edge Chipping Equipment Development and Substrate Study. • RFP generation and tool port plate height study. • Participant in material handling worldwide Benchmarking study. • Developed Cost of Ownership Seminar for FPD division of SEMI, presented first in Korea.
DuPont Displays Santa Barbara, CA 2003	• Cost Model for Flexible Displays
Raytheon Lexington, MA 2002	• Optical Phased Array – 100mm Substrate FPD/IC Process. • Low Volume Factory Model/Cost Analysis. • Operations Relocation Consulting. • Site Selection Analysis
Fujitsu Gresham, OR 2002	• 200mm DRAM wafer fab • Assist with sale of US fab • Create Capacity/Cost Model for Alternate buyer scenarios.
Citala Tel-Aviv, Israel 2001	• New Flexible Display Fab • Roll to Roll Processing • Automation Analysis • Programming, Layout, Utility Matrix • Tool Analysis and Selection • Process Analysis • Cost/Factory Model • Benchmark Display Costs
Dow Chemical Midland, MI 2001	• Display Technology Evaluation • Cost Model • Equipment Analysis and Recommendations • Process Analysis
Display Sciences North Adams, MA 2000-2001	• MEMS Display • Factory and Cost Model • Software Instruction/Sale
Sandia National Labs Albuquerque, NM 2000-2001	• Wafer Fab Expansion and Renovation • FabTech^© Utility Matrix, Delta Studies • Tool Research • Software Instruction/Sale
Motorola BioChip Tempe, AZ 2000-2002	• BioChip Pilot Line Scale up • Management of Scale up and move • FabTech^© Utility Matrix for Lab and Production Areas
IPC - Printed Circuit Board Conference Anaheim, CA 2001	• Cost of Ownership Class • eValuate^© Model
Arima – Broadband Semiconductor Taipei, Taiwan 2000	• GaAs 6” Wafer Fab • Jupiter^© Factory Cost Model • FabTech^© Utility Matrix • Fab Layout • Software Instruction
Atmel Irving, TX 2000	• 200 mm Wafer Fab, Multibuilding Renovation • FabTech^© Utility Matrix, Correlated to Phased Layout • Jupiter^© Capacity Model • Software Instruction/Sales
Amkor / Siemens / Atmel North Tyneside, UK 2000	• 200 mm Wafer Fab • Technical Evaluation • Jupiter^© Factory Model, Moves Matrix, Capacity Scenarios and Analysis
Matsushita Corporation of America, MASCA Seattle, WA 2000	• 200mm Wafer Fab – Multibuilding Site • Jupiter^© Factory Model, Capacity Analysis, Moves Matrix • Support of Facility Marketing
3M St. Paul, MN 1999-2001	• Jupiter^© Factory Cost and Capacity Model • Rigorous static model for tool set determination, fab capacity and start-up cost. • Comparative product cost model for display technologies.
Silterra Kulim Technical Park, Malaysia 1998-2000	• 200mm SMIF wafer fab design • Utility matrix development and analysis of proposed process equipment for facility design purposes (FabTech^©). • Static capacity modeling for tool set determination and verification (Jupiter^©).
Philips Semiconductor Albuquerque, NM 1999-2001	• 200mm SMIF wafer fab retrofit. • Utility matrix development and analysis of proposed process equipment for facility design purposes (FabTech^©).
Littelfuse Des Plaines, IL