| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan semiconductor assembly industry was established in 1966 by the Integrated Device Manufacturing corporations such as General Instrument Microelectronics, Texas Instrument, Philips Electronics ,etc. Their purpose is for cost reduction program – to shift labor intensive industry from high labor cost region to lower labor cost countries like Taiwan , Philippines ,etc. After some years of learning and with the encouragement of the Taiwan Government , several local IC assembly service corporations gradually took over the IDM company’s IC assembly factory in Taiwan and furthermore promoted the business model from OEM to ODM competing in new product “ time to market “ and “ unit cost “.
In the initial decade, new product development monopolized by technique intensive experts were running pretty successful in low technology application segment, however, such model were observed to be stagnant and sluggish while the new product development task force required complicated knowledge plus harmonious team work.
To figure out if there is an appropriate new product development model that could be applied in Taiwan small size IC assembly industry as well as in other similar business industry company, through the study and evaluation on this specific case, enhancing quality control involvement was practiced and demonstrated in the Taiwan represented local company during a new IC package development. The conclusion looks pretty positive as described below:
1. A qualified QA expert being involved in new product development program to prevent technique expert from monopolizing will obviously benefit the task force in shortening “ Time to Market “ and eliminate redundancy.
2. QA expert involvement in new product development is not only complied with in most well developed countries, it is mandatory to be executed in quality system as a requirement in International Quality Standard. Definitely, it is appropriate for all business industry as long as the corporation forever anticipate prosperity.
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