Samsung transfers chipmaking practices to South Korea’s public nanofabs

  • Samsung Electronics transferred fab management practices to South Korea’s public nano fabs.
  • Six months of consulting addressed shop-floor risks, aging equipment and preventive maintenance.
  • The government plans to share results with all 14 MoaFab institutions.

Samsung Electronics has transferred private-sector semiconductor manufacturing practices to South Korea’s public research infrastructure through a six-month consulting program aimed at strengthening the domestic semiconductor ecosystem. The Ministry of Science and ICT and Samsung Electronics presented the results at POSTECH’s Nanotechnology Convergence Institute on the 11th. The initiative followed a March 2025 memorandum of understanding between the ministry and Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and DB HiTek. Samsung’s DS Division Win-Win Cooperation Center worked at NINT from March through August, adapting its Materials-Parts-Equipment Eye-Level Consulting methodology for public-fab operations. The work addressed shop-floor risks, introduced 5S3Jeong field management, restored aging equipment to baseline condition and formalized preventive maintenance. The changes were incorporated into standard operating procedures. Public nanofabs support university and institutional semiconductor research while allowing companies without their own fabs to validate materials, parts and equipment in actual processes. The government plans to extend the approach to additional facilities and share the results with all 14 institutions in the MoaFab public nano fab linkage and integration platform.

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