[labnetwork] Instrument Relocation During Warranty Period - Best Way

[Vito Logiudice]

Dear YuYing Tang,

We recently went through a similar exercise. Since we had multiple tools
to move from our old facility to our new one, we created a "Tool traveller
checklist" for each of our systems. The checklist was kept in a plastic
sleeve taped to the side of a given tool at all stages of its relocation
sequence. The checklist estimates the duration of each major activity and
thus also helped us plan the the various stages of the physical move and
recommissioning activities. I've attached a sample in case you or anyone
else in our community finds it helpful.

Best regards,
Vito
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Vito Logiudice  MASc, PEng
Director of Operations, Quantum NanoFab
University of Waterloo
Lazaridis QNC 1207
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON           Canada N2L 3G1
Tel.: (519) 888-4567  ext. 38703
Email: vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca
Website: https://fab.qnc.uwaterloo.ca





-----Original Message-----
From: YuYing Tang <yuyingtang at mail.pse.umass.edu>
Date: Thursday, 18 December, 2014 3:41 PM
To: N P VAMSI KRISHNA <vamsinittala at gmail.com>
Cc: Labnetwork <labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [labnetwork] Instrument Relocation During Warranty Period -
Best Way

>Dear Vampi, Rick, Mark,
>
>Your advice are very helpful!  Thanks a lot.
>
>I think that we will generate an action list based on your suggestions,
>instrument manuals, and the suppliers' suggestions.  We will be moving
>these instrument 1/4 mile down the road in 10-12 months, and we'll keep
>learning and adding/modifying the list.
>
>Best,
>
>YuYing Tang, Ph.D.
>Director, R2R Processing Lab
>Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
>Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
>University of Massachusetts at Amherst
>Amherst, MA  01003
>
>http://r2rnano.org/r2rlab/
>
>
>> Dear Tang,
>> While we were moving from our old clean room to new clean room we
>>shifted
>> our J.A. Woolam - M 2000U Ellipsometer which is very similar to RC2
>> Ellipsometer.
>>
>> During that time we don't have the original wooden packages which we got
>> with the tool, so we moved it in much larger open box (which we got for
>> some other litho tool).
>> We took care of the following things:
>> 1. Decommissioning: Removed the connections and separated the tool,
>> controller and spectrometer. (we took photos of the connections before
>> hand)
>> 2. Remove focusing probes and camera.
>> 3. Remove the optical fiber cable and carry it safe separately.
>> 4. Moved to the new location and commissioned the tool.
>> 5. Reconnect the optical fiber
>> 6. Do the calibration.
>>
>> You may think of removing the bulbs as well.
>>
>> Thanks & Best regards,
>> vamsi
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:39 AM, YuYing Tang
>> <yuyingtang at mail.pse.umass.edu
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Any advice is appreciated.
>>>
>>> We applied and got a large instrumentation grant a year ago, but the
>>>new
>>> building wouldn't be ready for a while, so we started to bring
>>>equipment
>>> in the current building to get researches started.  We purchased some
>>> relocation service on a few instrument, but most of them we didn't buy
>>> relocation and we only bought extended warranty.
>>>
>>> Do any of you have experience relocating any one of these machines
>>> during
>>> warranty period?  Any advice?
>>>
>>> 1. Novacentrix Pulseforge 1300:  a photonic curing and sintering
>>>machine
>>> 2. Dimatix Material Printer DMP-2831: A piezoelectric inkjet printer
>>> 3. Optomec AJ300 Printer: An Aerosol Jet Printer
>>> 4.  J.A. Woolam RC2 Ellipsometer:  an ellipsometer with vertical base
>>> 5. Zygo Nextview 3D Optical Profiler
>>>
>>> Thanks very much.
>>>
>>> YuYing Tang, Ph.D.
>>> Director, R2R Processing Lab
>>> Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
>>> Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
>>> University of Massachusetts at Amherst
>>> Amherst, MA  01003
>>>
>>> http://r2rnano.org/r2rlab/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Thanks & Best Regards,
>> -----------------
>> *N.P.Vamsi Krishna*
>> Ph.D. Student
>> Room No:FF-08,
>> Center for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE),
>> Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore.
>> INDIA-560012
>>
>> *A bird sitting on the branch of a tree is not afraid of the branch
>> shaking
>> or breaking, because it trusts not the branches but its OWN WINGS.*
>>
>
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