Our Founders
Frank Chance, PhD, Co-founder and Software Architect
Dr. Chance has been developing software since 1983, and performing factory productivity improvement consulting for the semiconductor industry since 1993. Prior to founding FabTime, he founded Chance Industrial Solutions (CIS), a company that provided software and consulting services for the semiconductor industry. CIS developed and commercialized Factory Explorer®, an integrated factory-wide capacity, cost, and simulation analysis tool. From 1994 to 1995 Dr. Chance was a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. From 1993 to 1995 Dr. Chance was a consultant to the SEMATECH, where he developed Delphi, the primary fab capacity analysis and simulation tool used by the Measurement and Improvement of Manufacturing Capacity project. Dr. Chance has dual AB degrees in Mathematics and History from Washington University. He also has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. He is based in San Luis Obispo, California. You can find more detail on his LinkedIn page.
