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A resource portfolio model for equipment investment and allocation of semiconductor testing industry

A resource portfolio model for equipment investment and allocation of semiconductor testing industry
A resource portfolio model for equipment investment and allocation of semiconductor testing industry
Profitable but risky semiconductor testing market has led companies in the industry to carefully seek to maximize their profits by developing a proper resource portfolio plan for simultaneously deploying resources and selecting the most profitable orders. Various important factors, such as resource investment alternatives, trade-offs between the price and speed of equipment and capital time value, further increase the complexity of the simultaneous resource portfolio problem. This study develops a simultaneous resource portfolio decision model as a non-linear integer programming, and proposes a genetic algorithm to solve it efficiently. The proposed method is employed in the context of semiconductor testing industry to support decisions regarding equipment investment alternatives (including new equipment procurement, rent and transfer by outsourcing, and phasing outing) for simultaneous resources (such as testers and handlers) and task allocation. Experiments have showed that our approach, in contrast to an optimal solution tool, obtains a near-optimal solution in a relatively short computing time.
0377-2217
390-403
Wang, K.-J.
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Wang, S.-M.
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Wang, K.-J., Wang, S.-M. and Yang, S.-J. (2007) A resource portfolio model for equipment investment and allocation of semiconductor testing industry. European Journal of Operational Research, 179 (2), 390-403. (doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.04.006).

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Profitable but risky semiconductor testing market has led companies in the industry to carefully seek to maximize their profits by developing a proper resource portfolio plan for simultaneously deploying resources and selecting the most profitable orders. Various important factors, such as resource investment alternatives, trade-offs between the price and speed of equipment and capital time value, further increase the complexity of the simultaneous resource portfolio problem. This study develops a simultaneous resource portfolio decision model as a non-linear integer programming, and proposes a genetic algorithm to solve it efficiently. The proposed method is employed in the context of semiconductor testing industry to support decisions regarding equipment investment alternatives (including new equipment procurement, rent and transfer by outsourcing, and phasing outing) for simultaneous resources (such as testers and handlers) and task allocation. Experiments have showed that our approach, in contrast to an optimal solution tool, obtains a near-optimal solution in a relatively short computing time.

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Accepted/In Press date: 3 April 2006
Published date: 1 June 2007
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 396308
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/396308
ISSN: 0377-2217
PURE UUID: 9f544b22-7a7e-46be-a42f-4896c58faf65

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Author: K.-J. Wang
Author: S.-M. Wang
Author: S.-J. Yang

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