Ownership cost process time

Theoretically, LCC analysis can be done any time in any phase of the project. In fact, it should be a continuous process. However, earlier identification of acquisition and ownership costs give the investor a better chance to balance reliability, performance, and maintenance. 

The old scrubber technique is in fact very attractive for post-CMP cleaning as the same mechanical effect is active for all the materials present at the surface (insulators, metal barriers). Doubled-sided scrubbers for cleaning the frontside and the backside of the wafer and lateral brushes to take care of the wafer side are now proposed on the market. Furthermore, the implementation of megasonic sprays in the scrubber can sometimes help for difficult cases. The major limitation is in terms of cost of ownership (COO) as a single-wafer process is involved. Indeed according to Witt et al. [17] who used the standard SEMATECH COO model, brush cleaning is more than three times more expensive than wet cleaning, which was confirmed by other economic studies [18]. 

PERO Innovative Services has developed the equipment and the peripheral devices in such a way that they optimally adapt to the desired cleaning process and minimise the costs during the complete life cycle of the equipment (according to LCC - Life Cycle Costing, formerly accurately related to as TCO - Total Costs of Ownership, since traditional accounting systems in most cases regard a period which is too short, as the costs as well as the benefits of the system incur over a long time utilisation of the equipment). 

This chapter focuses on supply chain structure and ownership, one of the Cs in the supply chain framework. The chain structure is the backbone or the pipeline through which information and material flow in the supply chain. It is the process map of a supply chain that typically crosses many independent company boundaries. Once a supply chain map is generated, the location of entities, as well as ownership, and the connections to the rest of the supply chain architecture influence the observed lead times, costs, incentives, and thus performance, of the supply chain. 

To assist companies in the make-buy decision it is normally necessary for companies to have a framework by which they can understand the opportunity costs and risks of insourcing or outsourcing activities. A formalised process will normally assess the current internal costs of ownership against the external costs of ownership. More advanced models may well try to understand deskilling, the loss of critical assets and post-contractual lock-in and moral hazard over time if activities are outsourced. 

Affordable. Real-time collaboration total cost ownership (TCO) tends to exceed projections due to the high costs of maintaining a globally accessible real-time communications infrastructure. Linux offers a really high uptime and the system components work proporly on a Linux server machine. In conclusion, the framework can be considered affordable. Available. The TCO of real-time collaboration must include the cost of downtime. As virtual collaboration becomes more strategic to the business, educational, or administrative processes, the cost of downtime increases. A cost effective collaboration solution must therefore be highly available. 

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