Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation

Scope

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most complex manufacturing environments due to tightly constrained processes, reentrant flows, sophisticated equipment, and highly automated operations. The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation promotes research and industrial collaboration in automation and intelligent decision-making technologies, including Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Digital Twins, and autonomous manufacturing systems across wafer fabrication, assembly, packaging, and testing.

Activities

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Recent Workshops
  • Embodied AI for Robot-Powered Manufacturing Systems, IEEE CASE 2025
  • IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing, Robotics and Data Engineering, Newark, NJ, USA, 2025
  • Symposium on Integration of AI and Third-Generation Semiconductors, Hong Kong, 2025
  • Vehicle Formations in Industry and Intelligent Transportation Systems: From Model-Based to Data-Driven Solutions, IEEE CASE 2024
  • IEEE International Workshop on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation and Robotics, Newark, NJ, USA, 2024
  • IEEE International Workshop on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation and Robotics, Newark, NJ, USA, 2023

Recent Special Issues

  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Special Issue on “Learning-Assisted Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications”, Ongoing
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence-Driven Scheduling for Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics”, Ongoing
  • International Journal of Production Research, Special Issue on “AI-Driven Decision Making under Uncertain Environments: Theory, Methods, and Industrial Applications”, Ongoing
  • npj Advanced Manufacturing, Special Issue on “Human–Machine Symbiotic Manufacturing Systems”, Ongoing
  • Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Special Issue on “Shaping the Next Generation of Logistics Systems”, Ongoing
  • Optimization and Engineering, Special Issue on “Smart Optimization Methods for Engineering and Management Problems”, 2025
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Special Issue on “Human-Cyber-Physical Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing”, Dec. 2024
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Special Issue on “Social Manufacturing after ChatGPT”, Oct. 2024
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Section on “Tiny Machine Learning in the Internet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, Jun. 2024
  • Sensors, Special Issue on “Intelligent Monitoring, Control and Optimization in Industry 4.0”, 2023
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on “Machine Learning for Industry 4.0 and Beyond”, Nov. 2023

Annual Meetings of the TC-SMA

The IEEE RAS TC on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation (TC-SMA) holds meetings 1-3 times annually. These meetings usually occur at:

  • Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM) within the Winter Simulation Conference, December.
  • International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Intelligence (ISMI), August or October.
  • IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) and the Conference, August.