New Lab Practices, effective Monday, June 9

Dear Labmembers:

Over the past few months, Quality Circles comprised of process and maintenance staff and students have been meeting regularly with the goal of defining ways in which we can improve our lab.  A lot of activities and programs have come out of these meetings – and we would like to inform you of two of them, scheduled to begin next week.

 

First: Name tags.  Starting Monday, we will expect everyone to begin wearing name tags in the lab.  Blank tags will be provided in the gowning room and are colored coded to distinguish labmembers from staff and from visitors.  With 230+ labmembers making use of the lab every month, it’s hard to know who everyone is, especially with bunnysuits on.  We hope this helps make it easier to find who that mystery Coral login “mrxyz” with the late innotec reservation is.  And we hope it will help reduce anonymity and improve personal accountability in the lab.

 

Second:  The shadowing program.  Starting Monday, labmembers wanting to be qualified on most wet benches and furnaces will be required first to observe a qualified labmember operate the system.  Shadowing forms will be available in the gowning room and will include some advice on shadowing courtesy.  For you experienced users, please be aware that new labmembers may scan through Coral reservations looking for someone to observe:  this may be you.  You have the right to refuse... but we want to encourage everyone to contribute and to use this as an opportunity to get to know, work with, and better train the next generation of labmembers.  And if you would like to be qualified on any of the automatic wet benches or furnaces, contact the appropriate staff member as usual; you’ll be given instructions, forms, and training materials.

 

These are only a couple of the many activities, projects, and programs coming out of the Quality Circles.  If you would like to participate in any of these (Furnaces, Litho, Etch, Metals, RTA’s, and Epi), please come to a meeting (most are held in CIS 201, but contact a staff member to confirm).  These are biweekly and schedules are posted on the whiteboard outside the gowning room. 

 

Thanks for your attention –

 

The SNF Quality Circles

--  Mary X. Tang, Ph.D. Stanford Nanofabrication Facility CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070 Stanford, CA  94305 (650)723-9980 mtang@stanford.edu http://snf.stanford.edu