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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120109351 | LOT PROCESS ORDER MODIFICATION TO IMPROVE DETECTION OF MANUFACTURING EFFECTS A system for lot based, multi-step wafer manufacturing processes is provided and includes a transfer apparatus, disposed among tools for performing respective process steps on each wafer of each lot of wafers transferred thereto, the transfer apparatus being configured ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110307087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RESCHEDULING MANUFACTURING RELEASES Techniques are presented for rescheduling manufacturing releases. A plurality of release information elements are identified based on a first run of a first advanced planning system. The release information elements comprise dates of planned manufacturing release and qu... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110258087 | ANALYTICS FOR SETTING UP STRATEGIC INVENTORY SYSTEMS TO HANDLE SMALL LOT ORDERS IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY A method of managing manufacturing production includes determining a plurality of products for manufacture using a production line is disclosed. Each product is specified by composition and production line steps and criteria. Production orders for products are analyzed ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110218660 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED FAB CONTROL A method, apparatus, and a system for prioritizing processing of a workpiece is provided. At least one workpiece is processed. A tag associated with the workpiece is provided. The tag includes process priority data for determining an order relating to processing the wor... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110191139 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC INVENTORY CONTROL The embodiments of the present invention fill the need of properly controlling product inventory of semiconductor chips by providing methods and systems of dynamic inventory control. The methods and systems timely modify parameters affecting inventory. The parameters ma... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110172801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MANUFACTURING THROUGHPUT TARGET A first linear combination of a local moving aggregated quantity derived from a WIP distribution and a global aggregated quantity derived from the WIP distribution is calculated for each range for a given product type in a manufacturing line. The first linear combinatio... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110112675 | PRODUCT RELEASE CONTROL INTO TIME-SENSITIVE PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS A method identifies time sensitive processing sequences within a production environment using a computerized device. The processing sequences perform operations utilizing one or more tools. The method also identifies non-committed work in process items that are grouped ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110112676 | WORK PROCESS CONTROL DEVICE, WORK PROCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM An apparatus for controlling work process includes a lot allocation unit that gives a highest priority for lot-allocation to a device available for process. The device, which is given the highest priority, has at least one of a minimum number of lots-in-process and a ma... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110082579 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Disclosed are a substrate processing apparatus, a substrate processing method, and a storage medium, which can process a normal substrate according to a normal schedule in parallel with a substrate to be processed in preference to other substrates. Processing block perf... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110077762 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING TOOL CHANGE OPERATIONS A method and system are provided which reorders a sequence of operations of a part program to reduce the number of tool changes during execution of the program. The reordered sequence maintains a sequence of at least a first portion of the operations.... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110066269 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SCHEDULING IN CELLULAR MANUFACTURING WITH BATCH-SPLITTING The present application a new and improved system and method of enhanced Lean Document Production (LDP), which applies cellular manufacturing to document printing operations. The LDP process incorporates process friendly cells and, a push model to order to improve effic... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110060441 | Clustering for Prediction Models in Process Control and for Optimal Dispatching A first embodiment is a method for semiconductor process control comprising clustering processing tools of a processing stage into a tool cluster based on processing data and forming a prediction model for processing a semiconductor wafer based on the tool cluster. A se... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110054657 | DICING METHOD According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a dicing apparatus in which: in a case where a control device detects, during an image pickup of a workpiece set onto a second worktable by a first image pickup device and a second image pickup device, t... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110035039 | LEVER POSITION SENSOR A lever position sensor assembly (90) has a main housing (92), a lever (48) pivotally connected to the housing about a first axis (100), and a lever position sensor (84). The lever has at least a portion thereof extending outside the h... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100312371 | DYNAMIC MAINTENANCE PLANNING APPARATUS A dynamic maintenance planning apparatus including a maintenance planning device and a priority calculating device is provided. The maintenance planning device determines a maintenance date and time on and at which the throughput of a manufacturing system is maximum fro... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100268365 | METHOD FOR MANAGING PRODUCT SEGMENTS OF PRODUCT PRODUCTION RULES An effective method for managing product segments of product production rules within a manufacturing execution system adapted for providing a final product includes the following steps: a) each one of a plurality of sets of product segments are associated within one of ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100222910 | System and Method for the Production of Goods or Products A computer-based system and method for production planning are described that relies on developing factory shop floor modeling. This modeling includes simulating the factory shop floor to create a Virtual Factory. This Virtual Factory provides the ability to assess any ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217420 | METHOD OF GENERATING RECIPE FOR PROCESS A method of generating a general recipe for an industrial process that is not site or resource specific to from a master recipe that is site and resource specific, comprises:
| 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217419 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A PRODUCTION PROCESS BY SUPPORTING THE VISUALIZATION OF MATERIAL SHORTAGES A method for scheduling a production process is disclosed, wherein a production order requiring components is placed on a production schedule, the availabilities of the components, which are required for the production order, are detected by a computing unit, production... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100152874 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTEGRATED MASTERING SYSTEM A method for controlling handling of a plurality of substrates to be processed in an integrated mastering system and an integrated mastering system for performing the method of the invention is provided. The system comprises various treating stations to be passed throug... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100087941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROCESS JOBS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION FACILITY A method and system for managing process jobs in a semiconductor fabrication facility is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of process jobs associated with one or more priorities. The method further includes executing the plurality o... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090299510 | METHOD FOR MINIMIZING PRODUCTIVITY LOSS WHILE USING A MANUFACTURING SCHEDULER Tools and/or resources which newly become available to a re-entrant flow manufacturing line, data processing pipeline or the like are allocated in substantially real time to processing operations independent of and consistent with a scheduling segment previously generat... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292381 | PRODUCTION PLANNING METHOD AND PRODUCTION PLANNING SYSTEM FOR MIXED FLOWS OF PRODUCTION BY ORDER AND FORECASTING In the production process where an ordered article and a forecast production article are mixed, parameters for defining production priority of each article are preset while assuming a case where the demand exceeds the available production capability, and priority is giv... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090228128 | LARGE SCALE SUPPLY PLANNING A production planning method inputs demands for products. The demands have multiple due dates, and the multiple due dates have different priorities. The method performs an explosion process utilizing linear programming and heuristics to identify demands for components t... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090222312 | SUPPLY CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION AND MULTIPLE COMPONENT UTILITZATION The invention disclosed here is a method for achieving simultaneous consideration of multiple independent dates associated with a single demand. The method iterates through the demands to match the demands with the supply quantities respecting demand priorities which va... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090171492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING SETUPS DURING TEST, MARK AND PACK OPERATIONS A method includes determining production targets for devices of different types in a production line. A queue level of devices of a first type that have completed performance of a first operation configured in accordance with a first setup state in the production line a... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090149979 | RUN-TIME DISPATCH SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED PRODUCT CHARACTERIZATION CAPABILITY Disclosed herein are embodiments of an automated manufacturing system that is used to process multiple jobs in a product fabrication environment, where such processing comprises performing the same multiple consecutive process steps for each job and where each process s... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090138114 | METHOD OF RELEASE AND PRODUCT FLOW MANAGEMENT FOR A MANUFACTURING FACILITY A method and computer program product for scheduling product lots through operations of a manufacturing line. The method including: selecting a set of sequential operations required to manufacture the lots; partitioning the product lots into designated lots and non-desi... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090112343 | FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SEQUENCE OF OPERATIONS A method for generation of a sequence of operations for a manufacturing process including modeling the manufacturing process through a finite state machine to create a sequence of operations generator operative to generate a list of sequences of operations for the manuf... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090088882 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOMIZING DISPATCH ORDER FOR SINGLE WAFER PROCESSING A method for dispatching wafers for processing in a tool includes identifying a queue of wafers available to be processed in the tool. One of the wafers is randomly selected based at least in part on a length of time each wafer has been in the queue. The selected wafer ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090043414 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ARRANGEMENT OF PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT In a method for determining arrangement of production equipment that can determine component arrangement positions in a component mounting apparatus so as to reduce as much as possible the workload of an operator that exchanges components and the like, the number of pic... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090037012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING A STREAM OF PRODUCTS IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT BY USING PROCESS-SPECIFIC WIP LIMITS By defining a section-related WIP limit or a throughput-related WIP limit, an efficient “look ahead” characteristic may be established to efficiently control the WIP in a complex manufacturing environment, such as a semiconductor facility. The respective critical WI... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090018686 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR A SUBSTRATE TREATING APPARATUS A scheduling method for a substrate treating apparatus having a plurality of treating units for treating substrates, wherein, based on a procedure including a plurality of treating steps, a controller determines an order of treating a plurality of lots successively in t... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090005895 | Method to imporove the performance of a distrubuted scheduler To improve the performance of a distributed scheduler for a manufacturing process comprising activities including a production resource management, a production definition management, and a detailed production scheduling, a method provides a decision and prediction func... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080300707 | System and method for on-line planning utilizing multiple planning queues Features described herein relate to concurrently processing multiple batches of job requests for one or more machines and/or components thereof, using a plurality of job planning queues. Each batch of job requests is allocated to a planning queue, and each planning queu... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080281454 | Scheduling System and Method A method and apparatus for scheduling in a wafer fab. The method comprising means for weighting inventories according to at least one of logpoints or reticle, and photolithography units, means for scheduling one of said inventories on one of said photolightography units... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281453 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY CAM PHASER HARDWARE DEGRADATION A cam phaser diagnostic system is provided. The system includes: a first sample variance module that computes a first variance based on a desired cam phaser position. A second sample variance module computes a second variance based on a measured cam phaser position. An ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080275584 | Production management method and production management system A production management system has processing devices A, B, C, D, E, and P. A kind of product α is processed in the order of the processing devices A, P, B, P, and C, and a kind of product β is processed in the order of the processing devices D, P, E, and P. To determ... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080201003 | Method and system for reticle scheduling Methods and systems for reticle scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing providing a trade-off between complying with level priority and maximizing scanner utilization for critical scanners as a whole is disclosed. The extent of trade-off is specified by user, dependin... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080195241 | Method and system for wafer lot order Methods and systems for wafer lot ordering using including estimation of allowable queue time based on utilization loss and rework percentage have been achieved. The method invented comprises steps of ranking lots, allocating equipment to the exit step of queue time, ca... | 08/14/2008 |
