New Lab Cleanup and Lab Storage Procedures - Effective February

Greetings Labmembers:

As many of you know, it has been very hard to keep on top of the lab bin
situation. Many people have been patiently waiting for weeks/months for
bins to get freed up as we try to track down their owners. We also have
difficulty with WIP ("Wafers In Progress") that get left in the lab and
takes up needed shelf space. In an ideal world, everything in the lab
should be in use or in process over the course of a month. Although
this is not an ideal world, we can certainly try to keep on top of lab
bins -- and personal items (WIP) in the lab -- so... we are going to
try a new system. Here it is:

Each month, all WIP and personal storage bins need to be marked with an
appropriately colored DOT. For the month of February, the dot color is
PURPLE. Lab bins should have a PURPLE dot on the front as well as the
Coral login of the bin owner. The bin owner should be a current
labmember with significant equipment activities over each of the past
three months (greater than two hours/month). All WIP boxes stored
outside of personal bins (on WIP shelves) must have a PURPLE dot.
Anything that is not marked with a PURPLE DOT may be removed or reassigned.

This is the same system as is used for personal bunnysuits in the
gowning room. The color for February in the gowning room is also
PURPLE. Any hangers not marked with a PURPLE tyrap will be removed.

The key date is Monday, February 11. If you would like to keep your
personal bin, WIP, and bunnysuit hanger for the month of February,
please make sure your items are marked with PURPLE by this date.
Anything that is not marked by this date may be removed or reassigned.

You can find PURPLE dots and tyraps posted on the gowning room door.

We recognize and apologize deeply for the inconvenience this will cause,
but hope that with everyone's participation, this will lead to less
clutter and better use of storage space in the lab for all.

Thanks for your attention --

Mary

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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