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| 20100063609 | Multi-Spindle Phase Controlled Machining A method of controlling a multiple spindle machine includes measuring the motor currents provided to a first spindle and a second spindle over a period of time, establishing an amount of time between impacts on a workpiece of a cutting tooth of the first spindle relativ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063610 | METHOD OF PROCESS MODULES PERFORMANCE MATCHING A method and system employing said method for analyzing process module performance in semiconductor manufacturing. The method and system include process modules as part of a process tool. A process initiated in the process module includes steps. Each step includes speci... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100063611 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL TIME CLASSIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF BATCH PROCESSES Systems and methods (300) for offline/online performance monitoring of batch processes (BPs) involving obtaining archived data (AD) obtained during runs of BP and including information defining a batch quality attribute for each run. The method also involves form... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100023152 | Wireless manufacturing line control This device is a wireless tool monitor assembly line interface. The current embodiment of this new tool monitor has the ability to communicate with multiple different tool types. Pneumatic, electric, click based torque tools, and strain gauge torque transducers can all ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023151 | VAO Productivity Suite A semiconductor fabrication facility (fab) configuration module is defined to virtually model physical systems and attributes of a fab. A data acquisition module is defined to interface with the physical systems of the fab and gather operational data from the physical s... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100023153 | Wireless qualifier for monitoring and controlling a tool This device is a wireless tool qualifier that verifies that the correct number of fasteners have been properly installed into an assembly. When used in conjunction with a wireless tool, proper fastener torque and count can be verified. In another embodiment, the wireles... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017008 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OFFLINE AND/OR ONLINE BATCH MONITORING USING DECOMPOSITION AND SIGNAL APPROXIMATION APPROACHES A method (300, 400, 500, 1200) for offline/online monitoring of batch processes. The method involves (312) decomposing a time domain of a batch process run (BPR) into several blocks and (334) building multivariate statistical models (MSMs) for each ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100004774 | System For Real-Time Surveillance Of Production Facility And Environmental Conditions A real-time surveillance system of the present invention comprises a plurality of machine surveillance controllers for surveying a specific production line, the operation real time data of the production lines are collected and are transmitted via a communication interf... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100004772 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MATERIAL STORAGE VESSELS HAVING INFORMATION STORAGE ELEMENTS Material management systems and methods include material storage vessels with information (e.g., electronic information) storage. Information may be communicated from a storage device to a process tool controller and employed to set or adjust a process tool operating pa... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090326701 | Method and device for adjusting gap dimensions and/or an offset between a vehicle hood and the remaining vehicle body The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for adjusting the gap dimensions and/or an offset between a movable hood (2) of a motor vehicle and the remaining body (3) of said motor vehicle. The hood (2) is first fitted and retained in ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090326699 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING COMPLETED MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS An electronic torque wrench having a flexible head provides accurate torque measurements irrespective of the angular position of the head relative to a handle on which the force is applied. The head includes first and second portions connected by at least three pivotal ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090324805 | Optical monitor for thin film deposition using base stack admittance A method is provided for the determination of the time to terminate the deposition of an optical thin film using an exact model for the reflectance. This model is used to fit the reflectance measurements to determine the deposition rate, from which the time to deposit t... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090326700 | Method for monitoring the physical state of a hot-rolled sheet or hot-rolled strip while controlling a plate rolling train for working a hot-rolled sheet or hot-rolled strip A method of monitoring the physical state of a hot-rolled sheet or hot-rolled strip while controlling a plate rolling train for the reversing working a hot-rolled sheet or hot-rolled strip is disclosed. For the reversing rolling of the hot-rolled sheet or hot-rolled str... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCRETE SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION USING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL A system includes a first controller configured to monitor processes associated with a process facility and to generate control data for optimizing the process facility. The system also includes a second controller configured to use stochastic calculus of variations cal... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090299514 | FITTING ASSEMBLY EVALUATING APPARATUS AND METHODS Methods and apparatus for evaluating characteristics of components of a mechanically attached connection are disclosed. Characteristics that may be evaluated include, but are not limited to, the position of a conduit gripping device on a conduit, an amount of axial comp... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292385 | AUTOMATED THROUGHPUT CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME An automated throughput control system and method is provided. By gathering tool specific information of a plurality of process tools on entity level, appropriate throughput related performance characteristics may be calculated with high statistical significance during ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090287338 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING WAFER PROCESSING ORDER FOR CYCLICAL TWO PATTERN DEFECT DETECTION A method of sequencing wafer processing order to minimize sequence correlation in a cyclical two pattern model by generating a set of sequences of wafer identifiers that each specify an order by which one or more fabrication equipments processes wafers of a wafer lot, w... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090271022 | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER, CONTROLLING METHOD, CONTROLLING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR THE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM A manufacturing system, located at a manufacturing system site, includes a discharger for discharging a liquid material having fluidity onto a substrate, communication means for transmitting and receiving data through a communication line, and monitoring means for monit... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090248188 | SMART MACHINE TOOL LUBRICATION SYSTEM A smart machine tool lubrication system monitors the distance traveled by a motion component in a machine tool. A predetermined amount of lubricant is dispensed at a lubrication point of the motion component when the monitored distance exceeds a first threshold value. T... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090228247 | Process Control Using Process Data and Yield Data A method for monitoring a manufacturing process features acquiring metrology data for semiconductor wafers at the conclusion of a final process step for the manufacturing process (“Step a”). Data is acquired for a plurality of process variables for a first process s... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090228133 | Microserver for managing an assembly or repair of a product A method and system for managing a product during assembly or repair of the product includes use of a microserver configured to function as a local computing workstation and collect, store and process data for the product throughout the assembly or repair process. The m... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090204249 | Quality Assurance Method When Operating An Industrial Machine There is described a method for operating an industrial machine, the latter being e.g. a processing machine, a production machine or a manipulation robot. At least part of the operation of said industrial machine is simulated with the aid of a simulation model and the s... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090198365 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A MANUAL ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE A computer program product, apparatus and system are disclosed for managing a manual assembly sequence by electronically referencing unique identifiers associated with physical components to be assembled in the sequence. Certain embodiments facilitate management of an a... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090157213 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING BATCH PRODUCT MANUFACTURING A system and method for monitoring product through a batch manufacturing plant is provided. The system includes, a parallel flow mode when product flows concurrently from at least two units to a single unit; and a serial flow mode where product flows from one unit to an... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090149981 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS, ONLINE MONITORING OF A CHEMICAL PLANT OR REFINERY A near real-time system and method for continuous online monitoring of a plurality of operations in a continuous chemical process facility is described. The method of monitoring the operations is based on a multivariate statistical model developed using off-line, select... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090143890 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM AND CONDITIONING NECESSITY DETERMINING METHOD A control unit of a substrate processing apparatus controls a process to be performed in a chamber. The process includes a step of performing a preceding first process; a step of performing a subsequent second process after performing the first process; a step of determ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143889 | Equipment operating status tracking system An equipment operating status tracking system is provided, which may include a graphical user interface (GUI), a processor, and a computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the processor. The computer-readable medium may include a memory in which are stored instruc... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143876 | Method for limiting expansion of earthquake damage and system for limiting expansion of earthquake damage for use in semiconductor manufacturing apparatus To predict occurrence of an earthquake so as to minimize damage by preventing an object to be processed from flying out of an opened container. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus 1 includes: a transfer area Sa including a transfer mechanism 13 for a c... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138116 | SYSTEM FOR RELIABLE COLLABORATIVE ASSEMBLY AND MAINTENANCE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS A system and method of tracking location and orientation of power tools utilized in the assembly and maintenance of complex systems is disclosed. The system can facilitate collaboration between maintenance and alert maintenance personnel to complete complex system activ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090132078 | CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR A target value that serves as a control value with feed forward control is optimized. A TL performs a feed forward and a feedback control of a PM. A storage unit stores a plurality of recipes indicating different processing sequences, and a target value that serves as a... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090118855 | Control Method for a Substrate Processing Apparatus A substrate processing apparatus is reduced in communication cost and alleviated of the restriction on control site when the maintenance worker staying distant monitors in real-time a status change thereof. The centralized control apparatus... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090118851 | FACTORY LEVEL AND TOOL LEVEL ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS INTEGRATION IMPLEMENTATION Integration of factory level advanced process control (FL-APC) system and tool level advanced process control (TL-APC) system using selectable APC operation modes indicating different operational settings for the FL-APC system and at least one TL-APC system is disclosed... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090118856 | Status indication method and status indication system Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for solving a location designation problem to give specific instructions to workers as to where the device that has completed processing is in the production site, and a setup starting time designation pro... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090117647 | METHOD FOR ON-LINE OPTIMIZATION OF A FED-BATCH FERMENTATION UNIT TO MAXIMIZE THE PRODUCT YIELD A method for on-line optimization of fed-batch fermentation unit containing bacteria and nutrients is disclosed. Parameters of the fermenter model used in optimization calculations are estimated periodically to reduce the mismatch between the plant and the calculated va... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090112346 | Method and System for Adaptive Equipment Notifications The present invention improves on existing Equipment Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) and Equipment Automation methods and systems. Its novelty is in a new method and system to provide adaptive notifications based on the basic capability to detect interruptions ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090106066 | System and Method for Automating Integration of Semiconductor Work in Process Updates WIP status updates, as received from semiconductor manufacturing suppliers, is converted to transactions. In one approach, supply chain events, for example lot splits, lot merges, and lot scrap, are identified based on previous lot statuses and current lot statuses from... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090093903 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATING PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT QUALIFICATIONS IN A MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT Methods, systems, and computer program products for automating process and equipment qualifications in a manufacturing environment are provided. A method includes defining a triggering event for initiating a qualification of an equipment, process module, or process. The... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090084486 | OPTIMIZED ORDERING OF DOUBLER PLIES IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES The off-part motion of an automatic composite tape laydown head is optimized to increase the overall rate at which tape is laid down to form doublers in a composite structure layup. Starting and stopping gates for each doubler are determined based on ply data and course... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090088883 | SURFACE-BASED COMPUTING IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT An industrial automation surface-based computing system is provided. A computing surface component receives input via placing items thereon. A detection component determines when an object is place on the computing surface component, identifies the object, analyzes the ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090069922 | PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A method and computer program product for monitoring one or more processes occurring during a first portion of a multi-portion recipe being executed on a processing device to obtain data concerning at least of portion of the one or more processes. At least a portion of ... | 03/12/2009 |