JULY, 20228 IN MYV EWDriven by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the global chip industry is currently undergoing a phase in which demand far exceeds supply. For the coming years, market indicators predict a continued high demand, which global production capacities will be unable to satisfy. At the same time, capital projects in the semiconductor industry are continuously increasing not only in size and cost, but also in complexity. More and ever larger new semiconductor fabs (manufacturing facilities) are required to serve the growing market. The pressure for increased production capacity will constitute a huge challenge to the construction industry for years to come. It becomes clear, that methods traditionally used in the construction industry will not enable the breakthrough productivity shift required to meet the challenges at hand. What is urgently needed, is the understanding of the waste and losses produced during such complex, dynamic construction projects and of the immense improvement potentials often left unexploited.For chip manufacturers, time to market is crucial. Research and development on a new manufacturing generation is often still in progress during the construction of the respective high volume manufacturing fab. Resulting in continuous changes in basic project requirements while a fab is already under design and even construction. These dynamic conditions, together with the high technical complexity, large project size as well as schedule pressure, are what can generate huge amounts of waste, delays and reworks, which often cause significant cost and schedule overruns.Large capital projects always require early scope development, strategic pre-planning, and adequate resources in order to be delivered successfully. Digitized processes and a full shift towards virtual design and construction will advance future project performances additionally. However, with multiple dynamically interconnected systems, semiconductor construction projects will still rely to a high degree on human intelligence. Leadership, motivation, mind setting, coaching, networking, decision-making, continuous learning or risk evaluation are such crucial human interactions. The best way to optimize these human interactions and to achieve a state of high performance AGILE DELIVERY OF SEMICONDUCTOR FACILITIESBY MANUEL MAGG, PROJECT DIRECTOR, EXYTEWE NEED TO STRIVE FOR A TEAM CULTURE, WHERE SERVANT LEADERSHIP PROVIDES AND MAINTAINS AN OVERARCHING VISION TO THE WHOLE PROJECT TEAM, WHERE ALL TEAM MEMBERS FEEL EMPOWERED AND SECUREManuel Magg
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