Beginning July 1st, 1995 our Texas Instruments, Inc. Epitaxial Department became the property of MEMC Southwest, Inc which was a newly formed Epitaxial company.
MEMC Southwest, Inc. developed an 80 - 20 alliance with Texas Instruments, Inc and became a major supplier of large diameter wafers to Texas Instruments, Inc. The parent company of MEMC Southwest, Inc was situated in St Peters, Missouri with the main offices in Germany.
In my employ as an Epitaxial Clean Room Inspector QC, I tested Epitaxial Operators against Vendor specifications, once a year. I wrote tags for non-compliance, machines out of calibration, and specifications that were out of date. I also checked the cosmetic value of shipping labels that were mounted on boxes of silicon wafers being shipped to customers.
I remained in this job capacity beginning in July, 1995 till I was removed from it in June, 2001.
Beginning in June of 2001, I was moved to the newly opened MEMC Southwest, Inc wafer facility which is located about one mile south of the Texas Instruments, Inc plant site south of Sherman, Texas.
For a short while, I was trained as an Epitaxial Reactor Operator, and later moved into another area of the clean room to clean large diameter wafer shipping boxes by putting them into a large cleaning machine.
Officially on December 1st, 2001, I was laid off of this job after thirty-five years of continous service, and was never officially told why.
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