Evolution -

• Pre-1992: Notable training practitioners (like Robert Mager and Tom Gilbert) and professional organizations (like ISPI) increasingly urged companies to initiate training only after a front end analysis and then, assuming training was required, to use strategies that guaranteed results, i.e., expected performance. Some semiconductor equipment suppliers and some fabs began implementing these ideas under the banner of "criterion-referenced instruction" and "performance based training."
• 1992: SEMATECH and SEMI-SEMATECH hosted the first conference of the Technician Performance Improvement Council (TPIC), known originally as the Technician Training Council. In subsequent years, hundreds of representatives from chip manufacturers and equipment suppliers met annually to learn from one another and to establish guidelines. In 1992, as the first Council task forces began work, they immediately faced the difficulty of proceeding without an accepted definition of "good training." Out of this discussion, participants developed a list of characteristics of effective training which became the basis of the "PBET Characteristics" listed above. In creating the list, participants drew upon their experiences, as well as the writings of Robert Mager, and other leaders in the performance and training profession.
• 1994: The expression "performance based equipment training" was first used by Julian Serda at SEMATECH when he created the PBET Workshop. The Workshop was intended to assist companies with practical steps for implementing the list of good training characteristics adopted previously by the Technician Training Council. Serda had considerable experience developing performance based training programs at Signetics, and while consulting with several major equipment suppliers.
• 1996-2008: Solid Performance Solutions took on the responsibility for conducting the PBET Workshop and providing certification in the 18 to 24 Workshop skills. This, together with strong encouragement from Intel, led to the implementation of performance based equipment training methods at semiconductor equipment suppliers around the globe.
• 2007: SEMI adopted Standard E150 entitled "Guide for Equipment Training Best Practices." The Standard essentially codified the PBET development process and characteristics that were described in the 1994 PBET Workshop materials created at SEMATECH.