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| 20050216110 | System and method for fabrication backup planning A backup planning device within a fabrication system. The backup planning device schedules backup operations between separately located fabrication facilities by introducing a virtual tool. The capacity of the virtual tool is combined into first capacity information of ... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050209721 | Methods and apparatus for enhanced operation of substrate carrier handlers A carrier handler is provided that may be adapted to (1) accept transfer commands for carriers before the carriers arrive within the domain of the carrier handler; (2) accept termination commands that result in prior commands being cancelled or aborted independent of th... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050203654 | System and method for scheduling manufacturing jobs for a semiconductor manufacturing tool A system and method are provided for scheduling a monitor job for a tool in a semiconductor manufacturing environment and for optimizing the scheduling of jobs in such an environment. In one example, the method includes receiving a monitor job and monitoring a status of... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050197730 | System and method for process contamination prevention for semiconductor manufacturing Provided are a system and method for preventing contamination in a semiconductor manufacturing environment. The method includes comparing one or more attributes associated with a product, such as a substrate, with one or more attributes associated with an operation. If ... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050187647 | Intelligent full automation controlled flow for a semiconductor furnace tool The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing the flow of semiconductor wafers through a furnace tool having a front-opening unified pod (FOUP) material handling system. The invention provides for an automated control flow to realize greater ef... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050182505 | Automobile manufacturing line input order planning apparatus The invention is intended to provide a building sequence planning system for an automobile production line, which can prepare an efficient building sequence. The system comprises an input unit (1) for inputting information of vehicles to be manufactured, a proces... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050182506 | Glass processing equipment with dynamic continuous production control system A glass product cutting line includes a CNC cutting table, a sheet feeding device for feeding glass sheets to the glass cutting table, a plurality of harp racks, a sorting device and a dynamic cutting line control system. The control system optimizes the work piece layo... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050159991 | Job control system and method for controlling job processing To control job processing, in response to a job processing request from a first unit based on control parameters for job processing by at least a second unit, job information is created for a job to be processed by the second unit. The job information is stored in a job... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050149218 | Project manufacturing method and system A project manufacturing method and system. An embodiment of a method includes receiving project order data to a production order scheduler, mapping the project order data to parameters of the scheduler, and producing a schedule from the mapped data using routines of the... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050149219 | Method and apparatus for scheduling work orders in a manufacturing process A computerized system is provided for scheduling a plurality of work orders in a manufacturing process. Each work order to be scheduled specifies a set of operations to be performed using a plurality of resources and materials. Data including resource availability infor... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050137732 | System and method for manufacturing planning and control A customer-orientated manufacturing planning and controlling system. An order management module is programmed to receive an order for a product and reserve a capacity for the order based on a capacity model that considers a plurality of capacity vectors in a production ... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050137734 | Method of operating a lithographic apparatus or lithographic processsing cell, lithographic apparatus and lithographic processing cell A method of generating a schedule for operation of a machine forming at least a part of a lithographic apparatus or a lithographic processing cell is disclosed. In the method, a plurality of weight factors are received for respective ones of a plurality of qualities aff... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050137733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PULL-IN ORDER PLANNING AND CONTROL A system for planning and controlling a pull-in request of an order with demanded capacity in a production system. A plan engine is programmed to receive a pull-in request for the order, release original demanded capacity, reserve a capacity for the pull-in order, and g... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050131565 | Method to control an actuator The invention relates to a method for controlling an actuator, such as a device adapted to adjust the hydraulic parameter(s) of a fluid, where the actuator is controlled by a pulse-width modulated signal whose characteristics depend on the parameter(s) to be adjusted. I... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050131564 | Method for target queue time calculation in semiconductor manufacturing planning A method is provided for product culmination estimation in a microelectronics manufacturing environment. The method includes providing a manufacturing executing system including a plurality of processing entities. The manufacturing executing system provides interconnect... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050117587 | Distributed computing system for resource reservation and user verification In a distributed computing system, an end terminal transmits a job execution request to a job scheduler, which in response determines a resource and a job execution period necessary for executing a job on the resource based on contents of the job indicated in the messag... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050119775 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CALCULATING LOT HOLD TIME A method of calculating lot hold time. First, identification parameters of a lot are input. The lot may be a split child lot or an unsplit parent lot. The identification parameters include an identification code and a customer hold code of the lot. The identification co... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050113953 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING SIGNALS ACQUIRED FROM UNSYNCHRONIZED SENSORS A method synchronizes signals from unsynchronized sensors spatially dispersed in an environment. Each sensor acquires an unsynchronized signal from the environment. An identical timing signal is received in each sensor. Frequencies of the timing signal are substantially... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050113954 | Collaborative batch aggregation and scheduling in a manufacturing environment In one aspect, a computer-implemented method is provided for aggregating and scheduling product batches in a manufacturing environment. Using a batch aggregation engine implementing a mathematical programming strategy, one or more product demands are allocated to one or... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050107903 | Sheet metal factory processing system A sheet metal factory processing system includes a production management apparatus which generates a processing schedule based on a manufacturing designation. The processing schedule is managed in each unit of material sheets. The sheet metal factory processing system a... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050096774 | System and method for integrating transactional and real-time manufacturing data A method for controlling a manufacturing process integrates transactional and real-time data. Scheduling and inventory data relating to an item to be manufactured, as well as design data for the item to be manufactured are retrieved from a database. Control data derived... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050090921 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MATERIAL SUBSTITUTIONS WITHIN A SUPPLY CHAIN Disclosed is a method and system for efficiently modeling the situation where a product manufactured within a multi-stage manufacturing system has components upstream in the supply chain which may substitute for one another. The invention selectively permits substitutio... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050075747 | System and method of control factor management A system and method for control factor management for a work-in-process (WIP) in a production system. A plan engine is programmed to receive an order for a product, reserve a capacity for the order based on a capacity model that considers a plurality of capacity vectors... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050071031 | Algorithms tunning for dynamic lot dispatching in wafer and chip probing A method and system for flexible, comprehensive, on-line, real-time dynamic lot dispatching in a semiconductor test foundry based on a two-phased, event-driven dispatching system structure. An adjustable priority formula and tuned algorithms integrated with PROMIS' cons... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050065627 | Batch order change system A system for manufacturing a plurality of products that comprises a plurality of product attributes respectively corresponding to the products, a first text file including a plurality of amendment entries for amending the product attributes, an agent reading the first t... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050055119 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENTLY COORDINATING ORDERS WITH PRODUCT MATERIALS PROGRESSING THROUGH A MANUFACTURING FLOW A method and system is provided for dynamically coordinating one or more product orders with product parts progressing through a manufacturing process flow. After identifying a first order for generating one or more lots of parts for manufacturing a first product, where... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050043838 | Glass production sequencing A method and apparatus for controlling production run sequences of insulating glass units based on manufacturing variables. The method creates a sequence of runs of insulating glass units to be produced for assembly to window or door sash and frames at a plurality of gl... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050033463 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING MAINTENANCE ACTIONS IN A SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM A method of scheduling one or more maintenance actions in at least a part of a substrate processing system is provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes determining a gap in the flow of substrates in a part of the substrate processing system and schedulin... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050027386 | Decentralized project management system A decentralized project management framework may be implemented to manage process tasks defined by various functional organizations within a company. The determination of which process tasks are required for a particular type of project is managed by these functional or... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050021164 | Method for the optimizing of a production process The present invention relates to a method for optimizing a production process having starting products, intermediate products, and at least one final product, having the steps of quant generation and optimization. A feasible production plan for performing and/or control... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050015164 | System for determining carrier service using logistics considerations A method for scheduling manufacture of an item in a factory which includes planning a time for manufacturing an item so as to have the manufacture of the item complete during a desired shipping window, determining the desired shipping window so as to allow the item to b... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050015168 | Working-system for single path and control method thereof A working-system for a single path having a plurality of equipment set along the single path and a plurality of working-objects performing predetermined jobs on the plurality of the equipment while moving along the single path, including: a simulator estimating job comp... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050015167 | Synchronized production with dynamic logistics routing A method for scheduling manufacture of an order in a factory which includes planning a time for manufacturing an order so as to have the manufacture of the order complete during a desired shipping window and determining the desired shipping window so as to allow the ord... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050015166 | System and method for managing a regulated industry A system and a method enable supply chain solutions for regulated industries. The embodiments facilitate regulatory and tax compliance management integrated with smart inventory and e-warehouse management solutions. The embodiments are applicable to heavily regulated in... | 01/20/2005 |
| 20050004828 | System and method for preference scheduling of staffing resources The invention provides a system and method for scheduling resources. In one respect, embodiments of the invention allow workers to indicate preferences for specific shifts during a planning horizon, within limitations imposed by the scheduling system. Embodiments of the... | 01/06/2005 |
