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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116893 | 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 devic... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8041441 | 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 de... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7983778 | 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 li... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979151 | 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 proce... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974723 | Yield prediction feedback for controlling an equipment engineering system A yield prediction is received by a scheduling and dispatch controller, wherein the yield prediction is associated with a manufacturing tool and a product. A weighting of the manufacturing tool is adjusted in a routing algorithm based on the yield prediction. A cost... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966089 | 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... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953508 | Quality control system and method thereof A quality control system and method for monitoring an assembly operation is provided. The method can include: (1) providing an assembly line having a plurality of machines being assembled thereon; (2) providing a tool for performing an assembly operation; (3) perfor... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953507 | Method and system for intelligent automated reticle managment A method, system, and program storage device for implementing the method of controlling a manufacturing system, wherein the method comprises providing a plurality of workpieces to be processed on a processing tool, the plurality of workpieces located at processing s... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7925366 | System and method for real-time system control using precomputed plans Features described herein relate to optimizing a job plan procedure for selecting a plan for executing a manufacturing job. A planner can receive a model of a system that is to perform a job, and may select a precomputed plan that is sufficient to perform the job. T... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925365 | Rough-cut capacity planning with production constraints and dynamic bottleneck considerations To assess the sufficiency of a plurality of machines for processing a number of items, machine availability information indicative of availability of the machines for processing the items, machine capacity information indicative of a capacity of each of the machines... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7818082 | Method and apparatus for planning a manufacturing schedule using an adaptive learning process An apparatus and method for a production planning system using a process of adaptive learning is disclosed. A production planning system receives, production objects wherein each production object has at least one attribute. In one embodiment, the production objects... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809458 | Process control system with ability to exchange data with production line machine controllers A system and method for integrating a production line process control system (PCS) with production line machine controllers to record data about processes completed on a production line. The PCS receives data from line controllers regarding processes that are comple... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809457 | 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 m... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7711445 | Systems and methods for transferring small lot size substrate carriers between processing tools In a first aspect, a method of managing work in progress within a small lot size semiconductor device manufacturing facility is provided. The first method includes providing a small lot size semiconductor device manufacturing facility having (1) a plurality of proce... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7668615 | 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 wa... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664561 | Task queuing methodology for reducing traffic jam and to control transmission priority in an automatic material handling system A new Task Queue Methodology (TQM) is provided for reducing traffic jams and for controlling transportation priority in an Automatic Material Handling System (AMHS). A Stocker Resource Q, under control of TQM, maintains records of stockers that are under control of ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7623936 | Determining scheduling priority using queue time optimization A method for determining priority of a selected workpiece in a process flow including a plurality of operations includes providing an objective function relating manufacturing losses to workpiece priority for the operations in the process flow. The objective functio... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7613536 | Method for calculating a materials requirements plan for demands containing multiple demand dates and priorities The methodology disclosed herein calculates the dates that product must come to stock for every component in the supply chain as needed to meet exit demands associated with a plurality of due dates and priorities. Every planned product stock is thus associated with ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610111 | 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... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7590464 | 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 ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7574278 | 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 photolithography un... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7571020 | Method and system for controlling process tools by interrupting process jobs depending on job priority By enabling an interleaved mode when supplying substrates from a plurality of load ports to a respective process module, a reduction of non-productive time of the process tool and/or a reduction of cycle time may be achieved compared to a conventional sequential pro... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565218 | Method and system of prioritization for managing manufacturing processes A system and method are disclosed for prioritizing a plurality of lots in a manufacturing process. Portions of a priority for each lot are created. The portions are combined to form a unique range priority for each lot. The range priorities may be used to equitable ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7515983 | Method for resource allocation and re-grouping recognizing competing priorities which vary by date A method determines production starts in a manufacturing environment by inputting production starts. The method groups the production starts into production lots according to grouping rules and assigns start dates and associated priorities to each of the production ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7505828 | Carrier transportation management system and method for internal buffer process tools System and method for carrier transportation management in a wafer fabrication facility (“fab”) are described. In one embodiment, the fab comprises a process tool having an internal buffer for storing a plurality of carriers each containing a wafer lot and a loa... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7477957 | Method and system of controlled movement of dynamic-route WIP A system and method for driving new technology WIP at a controlled speed side-by-side with production WIP using a common range management infrastructure. The system and method allow new technology WIP and production WIP to be driven together in the same fabricator w... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7460920 | Determining scheduling priority using fabrication simulation A method for processing workpieces in a process flow including a plurality of operations includes employing a fabrication simulation model of the process flow to determine an estimated completion time for a selected workpiece. The fabrication simulation model simula... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7437679 | Displaying information with visual cues to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information Data items contained in personal information are displayed in manner that is indicative of both the importance and the urgency of the data items. A first visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an importance of the data item. The first visual cue may cause ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7409257 | System and method for moving substrates in and out of a manufacturing process Disclosed is a system for moving substrates in and out of a manufacturing process. The present invention comprises an automatic transfer device for automatically transferring a cassette that stores substrates, a manual transfer device for transferring the cassette a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406359 | Method for calculating a transition preference value between first and second manufacturing object attributes An apparatus and method for a production planning system using a process of adaptive learning is disclosed. A production planning system receives production objects wherein each production object has at least one attribute. In one embodiment, the production objects ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7379781 | Constraint based order optimization system and available to promise system A computer system which uses customer-based business rules that are customized for each customer. These business rules, along with order information, are provided to a linear programming engine. The linear programming engine determines the priority of customer order... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373212 | Allocating products using classifications of orders for the products A method and device for planning a production includes determining material flows of products that are part of the production. This determination is done by allocating available quantities of a product for covering demanded quantities of the product in time. An allo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373310 | Workflow system matrix organization search engine A rule-based search engine is used in conjunction with an automated network-based workflow system (which in turn is interfaced with an organizational database) to efficiently determine service routing requests from users/clients. The search engine employs search tec... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369914 | Method for projecting build progression for a product in a manufacturing environment A computer implemented method is used for determining a product build schedule for sequential fabrication steps. The computer implemented method comprises: receiving a routing of the sequential fabrication steps; assigning a raw process time to a fabrication step in... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369908 | Method for manufacturing product formed with a plurality of parts and method for combining parts A parts-combining method having high quality or yield for a product having a large number of parts. First entering an identification number group of nondefective completed products, a table of a product identification number group and a parts identification number g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369912 | Batch execution engine with independent batch execution processes A process plant control system includes a batch execution engine that spawns or creates an individual batch process application in a separate application process space for each batch to be run within a process plant. The batch execution engine includes communication... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369910 | Method for the optimizing of a production process The present invention relates to methods for optimizing a production process having starting products, intermediate products and at least one final product. The present invention also relates to a digital storage medium and a computer program product that can be use... | 05/06/2008 |
