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Method and apparatus for generating a sequence of steps for use by a factory

Patent 6128542 Issued on October 3, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject October 3, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 038577 filed on 03/29/1993

US Classes:

700/97, Design or planning700/121, Integrated circuit production or semiconductor fabrication707/103RObject-oriented database structure

Examiners

Primary: Grant, William
Assistant: Garland, Steven R.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 019/00

Abstract

The present invention allows the produce or process engineering of a factory to define a sequence of steps and to associate the steps to various levels defined by the object oriented database OODB. This allows the steps to be variable name independent and allow increased flexibility in reusability of the step.

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