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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190281 | Substrate processing apparatus, method for examining substrate processing conditions, and storage medium A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate processing unit for performing a process on substrates; a recipe protection unit for prohibiting processing conditions for the process from being changed while the process is being performed on a specific number ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8165704 | 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-... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7738984 | System for and method of interpolation for supply chain planning A method of iterative negotiation for improved production planning between one or more purchasers and suppliers in a supply chain. The method includes a purchaser in a supply chain generating a request schedule that is communicated to a supplier. In response to the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7477958 | 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 sequential subset of a set of sequential operations required to manufacture the lots; partitioning the product lots into d... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7440811 | Dynamic-state waiting time analysis method for complex discrete manufacturing A method of analyzing a manufacturing system. The manufacturing system includes a plurality of manufacturing resources. A set of orders is currently appointed for processing by the manufacturing system. Each order of the set of orders requires performance of at leas... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426419 | Scheduling system and method Photolithography operation in a wafer fab using relative weightings of work in progress to iteratively schedule wafers. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415393 | Reliability buffering technique applied to a project planning model A reliability buffering technique applies a reliability time buffer to a project planning model having activities. The reliability time buffer is placed before an associated downstream activity to provide a buffered downstream activity. The reliability buffer is pro... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409258 | Method and system for measuring customer delivery service Disclosed is a method and a system for measuring customer delivery service. A projected customer delivery date is generated. At least one projected output volume is determined based on the projected customer delivery date. At least one actual output volume is determ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7392105 | Method and system for improved performance of manufacturing processes A system and method including identifying a stopped range, identifying at least one lot of WIP associated with the stopped range, and processing the at least one lot in at least one operation within the stopped range at a lower priority relative to other lots. The s... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7370055 | Efficiently performing deletion of a range of keys in a B+ tree A method for efficiently performing range deletions in a B+ tree. The method operates to delete all keys within a range in a plurality of iterations. Each iteration may comprise: 1) deleting all of the keys in one or more leaf-nodes that lie within the range of keys... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369911 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing movement of work-in-process materials in an automated manufacturing environment Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing movement of work-in-process materials between processing units in an automated manufacturing environment are provided. A system includes a host system in communication with a work-in-process (WIP) material... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7349751 | Method for autonomic control of a manufacturing system Disclosed is a method of controlling a manufacturing system. The invention automatically monitors current levels of partially completed products waiting to be processed by a tool (or group of tools) and determines whether the current levels exceed a predetermined li... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337031 | Optimized deployment of parts in a distribution network A method for deploying parts is disclosed. Locations that include supply locations and demand locations are defined. A supply location supplies parts to a demand location. A demand is computed for each part at each location. An availability lead-time is estimated fo... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319965 | Method and apparatus to control the operating speed of a manufacturing facility A method and apparatus for controlling the operating speed of a manufacturing facility is disclosed. It includes determining a desired operating speed that is dependent on at least one economic variable. The variables vary with the operating speed. Also, the operati... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317960 | Automated manufacturing system An automated manufacturing system comprises a computer processing system and a plurality of consolidation systems. The computer processing system receives information on product subbatches and product packages and consolidation status information to produce consolid... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7302305 | Job queue management system and method thereof, including clustering wafer lots processed by common recipe into group, and creating process job and control job A system and method for job queue management. A job queue management apparatus acquires multiple wafer lot records individually regarding a plurality of wafers processed by a recipe, clusters the wafer lots by the common recipe into a group, creates a process job co... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292904 | Method for sizing production lot starts within a linear system programming environment Allocating limited manufacturing resources to achieve a feasible production plan that is consistent with customer demand is a difficult and common problem faced in many manufacturing industries. For large-scale multi-stage manufacturing systems, existing methods are... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7266417 | System and method for semiconductor manufacturing automation The present disclosure provides a method and system for semiconductor manufacturing automation. In one example, a method for semiconductor manufacturing automation comprises providing an identification table; defining a scheduled sequence; recording a performed sequ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242993 | Automated manufacturing system An automated manufacturing system comprises a computer processing system and a plurality of consolidation systems. The computer processing system receives information on product subbatches and product packages and consolidation status information to produce consolid... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239692 | Method and system for distributing outbound telephone calls A method and system is provided for the distribution of outbound telephone calls. This method and system includes dialing devices receiving call records and providing telephone calls to one or more agents. Interfaced with the dialing device is a distribution module ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239930 | Method, system, and computer program product for improved flow of development lots in a manufacturing facility The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for improved flow of development lots in a manufacturing facility. A method in accordance to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: establishing at least one target for process... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233886 | Adaptive modeling of changed states in predictive condition monitoring An improved empirical model-based surveillance or control system for monitoring or controlling a process or machine provides adaptation of the empirical model in response to new operational states that are deemed normal or non-exceptional for the process or machine.... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7174232 | Job release with multiple constraints To schedule the release of jobs from a pool of pending jobs, machine information and information about items to be processed are used to determine available machine capacity. Available machine capacity is allocated to jobs subject to multiple job release constraints... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171426 | Hazard communication system The invention is an integrated, data-centric hazard communication system. The system has an authoring module and a means for disseminating hazard information about a material and its components, decomposition products and related materials. The authoring module deco... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167767 | 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 o... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158629 | System and method for preemptive goals based routing of contact records A method and system is provided for the preemptive goals based distribution of contact records. This method and system includes devices receiving contact records and providing customer contacts to one or more agents. Interfaced with the device is a distribution modu... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158909 | Method and system for testing spas A test system and method for testing a spa system which includes a spa tub for holding water, an electronic controller system which controls the spa system functions, and one or more controlled devices. The system and method exercises the controlled devices during a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151972 | Method for autonomic control of a manufacturing system Disclosed is a method of controlling a manufacturing system. The invention automatically monitors current levels of partially completed products waiting to be processed by a tool (or group of tools) and determines whether the current levels exceed a predetermined li... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149700 | Method of determining task costs for activity based costing models A method of carrying out activity based costing in a professional practice, such as a healthcare practice or hospital is provided. The costs of activities involving an operator are calculated based on the time the operators should be expected to spend on a task, and... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146529 | System and method for processor thread acting as a system service processor A system and method for a processor thread acting as a system service provider is presented. A computer system boots up and initiates a service thread. The service thread is responsible for service related tasks, such as ECC checks and hardware log error checks. The... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142662 | Method and system for distributing outbound telephone calls A method and system is provided for the distribution of outbound telephone calls. This method and system includes dialing devices receiving call records and providing telephone calls to one or more agents. Interfaced with the dialing device is a distribution module ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127311 | Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus having a plurality of units includes a scheduling unit which schedules a process step with respect to each lot, a combining unit which combines process steps of first and second lots, to be processed consecutively, with respect to which the sch... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123976 | Capacity management system and method A capacity management system and method. The system includes a demand management module and a planning engine. The demand management module receives a demand comprising a request for a quantity of a device and a corresponding required date. The planning engine conve... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117130 | Method for solving stochastic control problems of linear systems in high dimension Stochastic control problems of linear systems in high dimensions are solved by modeling a structured Markov Decision Process (MDP). A state space for the MDP is a polyhedron in a Euclidean space and one or more actions that are feasible in a state of the state space... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7103173 | System and method for preemptive goals based routing of contact records A method and system is provided for the preemptive goals based distribution of contact records. This method and system includes devices receiving contact records and providing customer contacts to one or more agents. Interfaced with the device is a distribution modu... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103435 | 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 vec... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103436 | Method for optimizing foundry capacity The invention provides a method and system for determining a production plan that includes a first step that determines the minimum number of manufacturing starts that are required to meet contractual obligations; and a second step which determines a production plan... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096468 | Programmer/feeder system task linking program A task linking program is provided for using a computer for interacting with on-line and off-line programming systems to perform tasks related to programming microdevices. The program is secure in being capable of being setup only in an administrator mode where micr... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092775 | Production planning apparatus and production planning method The invention proposes a method for devising a production plan of a product to be produced through multiple production steps having different characteristics in a supply chain across multiple companies and/or multiple factories. The method divides a production step ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7085367 | Call duration alert A contact center for servicing a contact is provided that includes (a) an input operable to receive a contact from a customer; (b) a selection function 26 operable to direct the contact to a human agent associated with the contact center for servicing; and (c... | 08/01/2006 |
