[labnetwork] Providing User Lab Supplies and Storage Space

[John Shott]

Jacob:

We maintain a stockroom that is not a campus-wide stockroom but should 
be for the use of our lab members.  We tend to charge for things are 
more or less our cost that would be abused rather than used if we didn't 
charge for them.  So, we charge for test and prime wafers (that includes 
a variety of n- and p-type wafers in vary background concentrations, 
some double polished wafers, quartz wafers, and Pyrex 7740).  We charge 
for tweezers, scribers, clean room notebooks, individual wafer 
containers, anti-static chip containers, dicing saw blades, AFM tips ... 
and probably a few things that I'm forgetting.  We also charge for 
precious metal use (in our case, gold, platinum, palladium, and 
iridium).  We tend to charge approximately what we pay for things with a 
modest "rounding error" in our favor to cover our cost of ordering and 
receiving these things.  In other words, we don't make money on any of 
this ... but we try also not to subsidize them too heavily.

In terms of storage, we also charge for either small, medium, or large 
storage containers at the rate of $5, $10, and $15 per month, 
respectively.  That isn't terribly expensive, but is enough that folks 
release them when they are done and don't sign up for more than they 
need.  Because we only have a finite number of racks for storage we do 
have an upper limit on the the total in-lab storage we can offer.

Let me know if you have any further questions,

John

On 1/23/2014 7:47 AM, Jacob Trevino wrote:
>
> Happy New Year everyone.
>
> I was curious to hear your opinions on supplying cleanroom users 
> materials, such as tweezers, containers, glassware, timers, notebooks, 
> etc., verses having them provide these items themselves.  I have seen 
> several variations on this in my travels.  I am curious what you might 
> implement at your own facility.
>
> Additionally and related, what kind of storage do you provide your 
> users (boxes, racks, containers)? I know this is can become a 
> logistical issue quickly as users store and forget items over time, 
> leading to the consumption of valuable cleanroom space. What kind of 
> restrictions do you place on storage? As always, thank you for any 
> insight you might be able to provide.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jacob
>
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> */Jacob Trevino, PhD/*
> Scientific Cleanroom Director
> The City University of New York (CUNY)
> Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)
> Tel.  (646) 664-8914
>
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>
> Email: Jacob.Trevino at asrc.cuny.edu <mailto:Jacob.Trevino at asrc.cuny.edu>
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