This User group was founded 2004 and is organized within the GMM expert committee 1.1.3 "Production and Manufacturing Equipment - Yield Enhancement". The GMM is a platform for engineers and scientists working within the fields of Microelectronics, Microtechniques and Nanotechnology. The GMM is part of the Alliance of Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Information Technology (VDE/VDI).

(http://www.vde.de/VDE/Fachgesellschaften/GMM/)

The scope of the User Group is to provide a platform for discussion and exchange on yield enhancement in semiconductor manufacturing. The twice a year meeting is open to European semiconductor manufacturing sites for discussion and information exchange of managers, engineers, and scientists. The workshop language is English and each company attending is supposed to present. The exchange of presentations, however, is not required.

In advance of each workshop, the members of the User Group define two topics from a brainstorming list generated during the last meeting. The members vote on the topics prior to a meeting. The top two votes from the topic list based on everyone's input will be the topics for the presentations of a User Group meeting. Additionally, a telephone conference is scheduled prior to the meeting to discuss the topics and define a suitable question list as a guideline for the meeting.