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8447423 Method and apparatus for optimizing a performance index of a bulk product blending and packaging plant  
A method of generating capacity, production and inventory plans, over a designated planning horizon, which will optimize, with respect to a designated performance index, the operations of one or...
8437870 System and method for implementing a virtual metrology advanced process control platform  
System and method for implementing a VM APC platform are described. In one embodiment, the VM APC system comprises a process tool for processing a plurality of wafers, a metrology tool for...
8406912 System and method for data mining and feature tracking for fab-wide prediction and control  
System and method for data mining and feature tracking for fab-wide prediction and control are described. One embodiment is a system comprising a database for storing raw wafer manufacturing data;...
8401688 Identification of engineering intent requirements in an electronic environment  
Engineering requirements are defined in an electronic environment. In one embodiment, a method includes providing at least one of a set of master requirements and a set of version requirements to...
8396582 Method and apparatus for self-learning and self-improving a semiconductor manufacturing tool  
System(s) and method(s) for optimizing performance of a manufacturing tool are provided. Optimization relies on recipe drifting and generation of knowledge that capture relationships among product...
8396583 Method and system for implementing virtual metrology in semiconductor fabrication  
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes collecting a plurality of manufacturing data sets from a plurality of semiconductor processes,...
8332337 Condition-based monitoring system for machinery and associated methods  
Real-time condition-based analysis is performed on a machine for providing diagnostic and prognostic outputs indicative of machine status includes a signal processor for receiving signals from...
8321046 Substrate processing apparatus  
A substrate processing apparatus including a controller connected to a plurality of sub-controllers for controlling a substrate processing, and an operating section having a display unit for...
8306645 Method for updating manufacturing planning data for a production process  
Manufacturing planning data for a production process that is managed by a manufacturing execution system is updated by way of a plurality of steps, which include: Gathering data from a PLC level...
8271118 Method planning for manufacturing sheet-metal forming parts  
A method for computer-aided generation determining of a method plan for the manufacture of sheet-metal forming parts by way of forming processes, comprises the following steps: determining a set of...
8271117 Fabrication system of semiconductor integrated circuit, fabrication device, fabrication method, integrated circuit and communication system  
A manufacturing system which can restrain the margin of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The integrated circuit including a fixed circuit unit and a reconfigurable circuit unit outputs, to a...
8266552 Pattern generating method, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and recording medium  
Pattern formation simulations are performed based on design layout data subjected to OPC processing with a plurality of process parameters set in process conditions. A worst condition of the...
8249735 Method and system for automatically identifying an existing workflow to manufacture a given product type  
A method and system for automatically identifying an existing workflow to manufacture a given product type. A workflow description of a workflow can be transformed into a product type description...
8249732 System and method for developing automated templates for knowledge capture  
A system, method, and computer program product for automated development of templates for knowledge capture for use in computer aided design and manufacturing. A method includes receiving a user...
8239055 System for maintaining unified access to SCADA and manufacturing execution system (MES) information  
A system is disclosed that simplifies configuring an MES entity corresponding to a SCADA system object representing plant equipment. The system includes an equipment model builder (EMB) that...
8219231 Quality control system, quality control apparatus, quality control method and computer readable medium  
A quality control method includes: extracting, from a time series distribution of troubles that have occurred in electronic equipments, a first characteristics of states of occurrence of the...
8188866 Circuit board with radio frequency identification for collecting stage-by-stage manufacturing metrics  
A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is coupled to a circuit board to track the specific operating and environmental conditions of each manufacturing stage as the circuit board passes...
8185232 Learning method of rolling load prediction for hot rolling  
The present invention provides a learning method of rolling load prediction which uses a prediction error of a rolling load at an actual pass of a stock in hot rolling to correct a predicted value...
8091395 System, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for press-forming of materials  
A system, method and software arrangement are provided for generating press-formed parts having a more consistent quality based on improved determination of processing conditions. For example, an...
8086337 Computerized system and method for generating a delivery bill of materials  
A computerized system and method for generating a delivery bill of materials (BOM) for use at a production facility. Input includes parts data identifying the parts used in the production process,...
8069068 Systems and methods for insuring stored food  
A person may store food to prepare for an emergency. An insurance policy may be issue to cover the stored food against loss, theft, spoilage, etc. In issuing the insurance policy and setting the...
8041442 Process for selecting surrogate part  
A process for selecting a surrogate part for metallic plating, the metallic plating of the surrogate part predicting results for the metallic plating of a new or predetermined part is disclosed....
8019349 Telephone conversation resumption system, telephone conversation resumption program, telephone conversation resumption method, portable terminal and relay apparatus  
In a communication network including a relay apparatus and a call control apparatus, a telephone conversation resumption system includes: a reservation unit, when a judgment unit detects...
8014887 Substrate processing apparatus  
A substrate processing apparatus includes an operating section. The operating section includes a display unit having an operation screen, a screen file that stores daily check data monitor screen...
8000819 Manufacturing instruction evaluation support system, manufacturing instruction evaluation support method, and manufacturing instruction evaluation support program  
A manufacturing instruction evaluation support system includes a data reading part that reads a manufacturing instruction parameter group and manufacturing performance data corresponding thereto, a...
7978544 Methods for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user  
Techniques for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first search query received from a client via a first search mechanism...
7966276 Controller for partially observable systems  
A controller is provided, operable to control a system on the basis of measurement data received from a plurality of sensors indicative of a state of the system, with at least partial autonomy, but...
7957822 Component mounter control method and component mounter  
A method controls a component mounter which includes a mobile unit for mounting a component onto a circuit board, and judges on which side of the component mounter as user, who issues an...
7936951 System for document digitization  
A computer-implemented, knowledge-based process for digitizing a set of documents, which includes using a computer to perform the steps of loading a set of definitions stored in an XML document...
7934215 Smart scheduler  
A smart scheduler is provided to prepare a machine for a job, wherein the job has specific requirements, i.e., dimensions. One or more config jobs are identified to configure the machine to meet...
7930049 Control method for a substrate processing apparatus  
A centralized control apparatus includes a data collecting part that gathers data at a predetermined interval from a substrate processing apparatus for each component in the substrate processing...
7893833 Inline system for collecting stage-by-stage manufacturing metrics  
A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is coupled to a circuit board to track the specific operating and environmental conditions of each manufacturing stage as the circuit board passes...
7886564 System, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for press-forming of materials  
A system, method and software arrangement are provided for generating press-formed parts having a more consistent quality based on improved determination of processing conditions. For example, an...
7870005 System, method, and computer program product for configuring and purchasing a medical device  
A system, method, and computer program product for configuring a medical device. A personal data assistant is used by a practitioner to gather patient information. Patient information is...
7860596 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...
7835952 System, method, and computer program product for creating a production plan  
In a build-to-order (BTO) management system, domestic production orders are incorporated into a production plan before overseas production orders. When incorporating the production orders into the...
7822783 Programmable method and apparatus for real-time adaptation of presentations to individuals  
The present invention is a method of obtaining information regarding an individual's environment using a programmable device. The first step of the method is sensing a psychomotor behavioral...
7774714 Computer aided design system having business process attributes  
A digital design system 10 is described which includes a user interface 12 that is used to interact with a digital data set 14. The digital model data set 14 is augmented by smart model attributes...
7761179 Method for consistent updates to automated process control (APC) models with partitioning along multiple components  
Methods for consistent updates to APC models with partitioning along multiple components are generally described. In one example, a method includes acquiring measurement data from one or more...
7757220 Computer interchange of knowledge hierarchies  
A means for exporting a Task-Method-Knowledge (TMK) hierarchy is disclosed using XML as an intermediate file format. Using a computer interface, a user selects the TMK hierarchy, or portion of a...
7738987 Device and method for controlling substrate processing apparatus  
Depending on the degree of microfabrication requested for each wafer lot, transfer of wafers is controlled. A substrate processing apparatus includes a plurality of PMs 400 and an LLM 500 and is...
7725207 Systems for allocating multi-function resources in a process system and methods of operating the same  
There are disclosed systems, as well as methods of operation, for allocating multi-function resources among a plurality of tasks within a process system. An exemplary resource allocator is...
7689312 Downstream error handling in manufacturing systems  
A method, computer program product, and system for handling an error that occurs during processing of a job in a manufacturing system are provided. The method, computer program product, and system...
7623139 Design and modeling system and methods  
A computer added design system enables layout of a dependent component based on master components having a set of geometric and functional properties. Based on the state of the dependent component...
7617015 Generating planning-level time and capacity requirement formulas for manufacturing processes  
Methods, computer program products and systems are disclosed for generating a planned time duration for a manufacturing process operation defined for planning purposes that includes an aggregation...
7577486 Quality improvement system  
A quality improvement system, which automatically performs engineering analysis and problem coping to improve the quality of semiconductor products. The quality improvement system is connected to a...
7558641 Recipe report card framework and methods thereof  
A computer-implemented method for performing recipe evaluation is provided. The computer-implemented method includes integrating a plurality of data sources into a single recipe report card...
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...
7529648 Method, system and computer program product for automatically generating a subset of task-based components from engineering and maintenance data  
The method, system and computer program product for automatically generating a subset of components include receiving a request to generate a subset of components, accessing connectivity data that...
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...
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