Overview

 Vision

Mission

Meeting Schedule

Quality

Q4 2015 Meeting

Host: SanDisk
Date: December 9, 2015
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location:  951 SanDisk Dr, Bldg 1, San Jose, CA

Overview & Registration

Q1 2016 Meeting

Host: SanDisk
Date: March 16, 2016
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location: 951 SanDisk Dr, Bldg 1, San Jose, CA

Q2 2016 Meeting

Host: SanDisk
Date: June 15, 2016
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location:  951 SanDisk Dr, Bldg 1, San Jose, CA

Q3 2016 Meeting

Host: SanDisk
Date: September TBD, 2016
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location: 951 SanDisk Dr, Bldg 1, San Jose, CA

Presentations

September 23, 2015

• Working Group Meeting Overview (PDF,  601 KB)
• Quality Maturity Model 23Sep15 (XLS, 58 KB)

March 25. 2015

• Working Group Meeting Overview (PDF, 480 KB)
• Analytics for Zero Defects (PDF, 2,435 KB) / Anil Gandhi, Qualicent Analytics

Dec 11, 2014

• Working Group Meeting Overview (PDF, 478 KB)
• Leveraging Test Data for Quality (PDF, 1,435 KB) / Michael Schuldenfrei, Optimal+
• Quality Maturity Model 11Dec 14 (XLS, 51 KB)

Sep 11, 2014

• Working Group Meeting Overview (PDF, 474 KB)
• CMMI Overview (PDF, 247 KB)
• Quality_Monitors_15Sep14 (XLS, 25 KB)

Jun 19, 2014

• Working Group Meeting Overview (PDF, 477 KB)
• Quality_Monitors_19Jun14 (XLS, 15 KB)

Mar 27, 2014

• Working Group Meeting Overview (PDF, 476 KB)
• Manufacturing Line QMS Decision Flow (PDF, 97 KB)
• Quality_Monitors_27Mar14 (Excel, 15 KB)

Dec 10, 2013

• Quality Interest Group (PDF, 485 KB)

Minutes

2014 Meeting Minutes

• SEP 11, 2014 Working Group Minutes (PDF, 759 KB)
• JUN 19, 2014 Working Group Minutes (PDF, 761 KB)
• MAR 27, 2014 Working Group Minutes (PDF, 756 KB)

2013 Meeting Minutes

• DEC 10, 2013 Working Group Minutes (PDF, 757 KB)

Tools

Introduction to the Quality Monitors Checklist

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) formed a Quality Technology Team in December 2013. This team meets quarterly to review Quality Best Practice and develop tools that enhance the quality process throughout the supply chain.

As its starting point, the team developed the Quality Monitors Checklist. This checklist is revisited at least once a year to keep up with changes in quality processes due to customer and product diversity.

Objective of this document

• Provide a quality-check framework for semiconductor testing before product is shipped.
• Define the tests and parameters required to minimize the level of bad product shipped to an end customer.

Checklist Usage

• This checklist is not intended to be a requirement for product testing
• This is not meant to be a comprehensive list, but can be useful to:
  • Analyze gaps in testing
  • Provide the top 3-5 test areas for each line of defense against shipping low quality product
  • Improve Customer Awareness, by providing a guideline for customers to better understand the test environment
• Provide insights to tests that may be used; not all tests are applicable to all products and markets
• As part of overall quality system
• As a Requirements document used at beginning of product development
• Use to compare to existing internal processes and improve / modify where necessary; internal process gap analysis
• High level reference document
• Checks and Balances document
• To confirm FMEA and Control Plan is comprehensive
• Defined as “collective output of our quality experiences”

Notes

• This checklist may be used as a gauge for procurement discussions
• Additional testing insight may be acquired for high-reliability markets. For example, please see Automotive Electronics Council* website for automotive quality test requirements.
• This checklist is openly available to anyone in the industry.
• Feedback should be sent to kgiles@gsaglobal.org

* AEC Website – http://www.aecouncil.com/

Initial Release Date: October 15, 2014

Projects

Quality Maturity Model
Modeled after the Capability Maturity Model (CMMI / SEI), the Semiconductor Quality Maturity Model (SQMM) provides an assessment tool to evaluate sub-contractors and supply chain companies. As suppliers improve their SQMM capability level, the oversight needed to ensure delivery of quality product diminishes. This reduces costs for both the supplier and receivers of services.

The Quality Maturity Model provides maturity level requirements for Incoming and Outgoing Supplier Quality, Supplier Operational Quality, and Supplier Change Management Process maturity.

Draft is available on request.