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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7542820 | Methods and arrangement for creating recipes using best-known methods A method for affecting a creation of a recipe for processing a substrate in a processing system. The method includes providing a best-known method driven recipe editor. The best-known method driven recipe editor incorporates best-known methods (BKMs), which are best... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7526356 | Intelligent modeling and control of automation A system and method for advanced device specific knowledge based modeling as well as intelligent control to yield high performance, low cost automation for optoelectronic design, packaging and assembly. The control loop design is based on knowledge based model predi... | 04/28/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7398129 | Representation of sheet metal part models Data for a 3D sheet metal part model is stored in a file. The stored data includes features of the part and manufacturing information. When different manufacturing processes are used, different geometry can be created. The file can store multiple processes for manuf... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395129 | Method for optimization of an order of component mounting, apparatus using the same, and mounter An optimizing apparatus for optimizing a mounter equipped with a line gang pickup head which picks up a plurality of components and mounts them on a board. The apparatus includes a nozzle set determination unit for determining a nozzle set which reduces a mounting t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386359 | Device and method for testing machine tools and production machines A test device and a test method for testing a machine tool or production machine are disclosed. A control and monitoring unit processes at least one predefined instruction sequence and generates control commands for operating the machine controller in order to test ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7353221 | Method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data of systems The invention relates to a method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data from installations. The engineering and runtime objects are described by a uniform object model. This allows the correspondence between engineering objects and runtime objects to be de... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349863 | Dynamic planning method and system A dynamic planning method (DPM) generates a DPM project planning model. The DPM project planning model provides an activity pre-structured process model for activities of a DPM project plan. The DPM project planning model also provides a relationship pre-structured ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346413 | Productivity for tool having plurality of processing modules Method, system and program product are disclosed for determining productivity for a tool including a plurality of processing modules. The invention provides an understanding of a relationship between measured variables and overall tool speed by calculating computati... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336849 | Exposure correction method for digital images An exposure correction method for digital images first computes a gray-level histogram of an image. Then determine whether the exposure of the image is normal from the gray-level histogram, thereby determining an exposure threshold. The central region of the image i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319972 | Systems and methods for modeling product penetration and repeat Methods, devices and systems are provided for modeling product volume penetration. A system embodiment includes a remote client operably connected to a server, having a number of client files, and an input device. A set of computer executable instructions are operab... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318227 | Method for monitoring or installing new program codes in an industrial installation A method of installing a mobile program code for the control of an industrial automation system with a central computer and a plurality of actors and sensors coupled via a bus system with said central installation computer, has the steps of transmitting the mobile p... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308570 | System and method for booting embedded systems using removable storage A system and method of booting an embedded system having a processor, nonvolatile memory and a remote media interface connected to the processor. Boot code is executed within the nonvolatile memory. The processor determines if a storage device is connected to the re... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305274 | System and method for drawing and manufacturing bent pipes Novel systems and methods of using a bent-tube object in a drawing file include entering a custom bent-tube object in a drawing file, and using the bent tube object to generate bender driver data. In a particular method, the step of entering the custom bent-tube obj... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289862 | Methods to support process quality and maintenance during control of an industrial process such as welding A number of methods to support process quality and maintenance during control of an industrial process such as welding are provided. The methods provide, among other things: automatic process limit programming based on runtime data; user-initiated process limit prog... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286888 | Automated manufacturing control system An automated manufacturing control system is proposed to greatly reduce the human interaction relative to the data transfer, physical verification and process control associated with the movement of components, tooling and operators in a manufacturing system. This i... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280948 | System and method for integrating geometric models A system and method of integrating geometric models, comprising identifying a product to design or manufacture, generating a product template, initiating the generation of at least one geometry, associating knowledge with the geometry, performing operations on the g... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280990 | Method and system for designing and modeling a product in a knowledge based engineering environment An interactive design system includes a design application that creates and models a geometry of an object. A programming language application defines engineering rules that may be associated with the object. The programming language application associates the geome... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272531 | Aggregation of asset use indices within a process plant A method of monitoring an entity within a process plant wherein the entity includes a plurality of lower level entities, includes acquiring a plurality of use indices, acquiring a plurality of weighting values, and creating an aggregate use index from a combination ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257455 | System and method for collecting and representing knowledge using task-method-knowledge with structure-behavior-function in a computer system A system and method are provided for using a plurality of knowledge acquisition approaches to provide a solution to a task. The method includes providing at least one input parameter to define the task and at least one solution parameter to define the solution. A de... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242995 | E-manufacturing in semiconductor and microelectronics processes Architecture that facilitates management of a semiconductor and/or microelectronics manufacturing process. A manufacturing component in communication with the semiconductor and/or microelectronics process operates according to process conditions to output a product,... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236845 | Selecting OLED devices using figure of merit A method of selecting an OLED device to be manufactured based on customer requirements, including the customer providing first and second sets of requirements, providing a plurality of OLED device constructions based on the first and second sets of requirements, dev... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233882 | Method and apparatus for monitoring process transitions A method for identifying modes and transitions during plant operation, wherein measured values of process variables are used to evaluate a current state of the process and its sections and subsections. An identified state of the plant is signaled and the plant is mo... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231267 | Implementing production processes In the implementation of a production process, event data corresponding to a parent event that has triggered an executable business process that has failed is logged. The event data is displayed to a user. Responsive to input from the user, a child event based on th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225043 | System, method and program for tracing manufacturing processes System, method and program product for tracing first, second and third processes for producing a product. First, second and third process instances for the first, second and third processes, respectively, are generated. Tracing information is stored in association w... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225175 | System and method of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem using visual feedback Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem. The system includes first logic to facilitate user specification of the problem to populate a problem statement structure; sec... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221988 | Creation and display of indices within a process plant A process control system uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222002 | Vibration engine monitoring neural network object monitoring The present invention provides an aircraft engine vibration system that provides information about engine health. Embodiments of the present invention monitor for excessive vibration, monitor for bird strike, monitor for ice build up on the fan section, and monitor ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217580 | Method for processing an integrated circuit Methods for processing at least one die which comprises an integrated circuit. In one example of a method of the invention, an identification code is applied to a carrier. A singulated die is deposited into the carrier which holds the singulated die. The singulated ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216005 | Control apparatus for injection molding machine Test molding and mass-production molding are performed by an injection molding machine that includes a control apparatus in which neural networks are used. A quality prediction function determined based on the test molding is revised as necessary during mass-product... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212985 | Automated system and method for managing a process for the shopping and selection of human entities This invention is a system and method for automatically managing a multi-step process in which human providers are selected for some purpose. Typical applications include the selection process associated with employment and dating services. The invention is directed... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206646 | Method and apparatus for performing a function in a plant using process performance monitoring with process equipment monitoring and control A process control system uses a data collection and distribution system and an asset utilization suite to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the proces... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203667 | System and method of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem using an archetype process Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem. The system includes first logic to facilitate user specification of the problem to populate a problem statement structure. It ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197488 | System and method of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem using an archetype problem structure Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem. The system includes first logic to facilitate user specification of the problem to populate a problem statement structure. It ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188093 | Methods and systems for determining circular dependency Methods and systems are disclosed for determining whether circular dependency exists in a plurality of dependency rules. The method includes generating for at least some of the plurality of dependency rules a plurality of exclusion lists. Each exclusion list is asso... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7171487 | Method and system for application specific packet forwarding The present invention provides a method and system handling information exchange through networks 102 to 110 for interactive information exchange, especially for interactive Internet based game show. At least one server 120 and a plurality of cl... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165927 | Automated material handling system for semiconductor manufacturing based on a combination of vertical carousels and overhead hoists An Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) that allows an overhead hoist transport vehicle to load/ unload parts directly to/from storage units included in the system. The AMHS includes an overhead hoist transport subsystem and a vertical carousel stocker having a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7146280 | Startup and operational techniques for a digital flowmeter Startup and operational techniques for a digital flowmeter are described. The techniques select an optimal mode of operation for the digital flowmeter, depending on a current environment of the flowmeter. For example, during a startup operation of the flowmeter, the... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142940 | Method of processing semiconductor wafer A method of processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. The semiconductor wafer is processed with a first process. After collecting the measured data that reflects the deviation of each part within the semiconductor wafer, the semiconductor wafer is processed with... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143074 | System and method of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods of facilitating and evaluating user thinking about an arbitrary problem. The system includes first logic to facilitate user specification of the problem to populate a problem statement structure. It ... | 11/28/2006 |