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8185226 |
Method and system for scheduling a stream of products in a manufacturing environment by using process-specific WIP limits
By defining a section-related WIP limit or a throughput-related WIP limit, an efficient “look ahead” characteristic may be established to efficiently control the WIP in a complex manufacturing env...
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8180471 |
Tuning a process controller based on a dynamic sampling rate
A method for estimating a state of a process implemented by a tool for fabricating workpieces includes collecting metrology data associated with a subset of workpieces processed in the tool. The...
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8175732 |
Manufacturing system and method
One aspect related to design of systems and methods for product manufacturing is portability, i.e., allowing for manufacture at multiple locations independent of the skill set of the contract...
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8170835 |
Data analysis applications
A system and method of monitoring equipment performance and predicting failures. The system can include a data historian that stores data for a piece of equipment and designates the data to tags....
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8170704 |
Method and system for automatic generation of throughput models for semiconductor tools
The throughput of complex cluster tools of a semiconductor manufacturing environment may be determined for a desired manufacturing scenario on the basis of automatically generated throughput...
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8170703 |
Method for controlling a plurality of production processes
A method for controlling a plurality of production processes performed on a plurality of production machines is described, wherein order data regarding the production processes to be performed are...
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8165705 |
Methods and systems for continuously estimating persistent and intermittent failure probabilities for production resources
Production control systems and methods are presented for estimation of production resource failure probabilities in which a set of four count values are maintained and updated for each resource...
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8165707 |
Enterprise factory control method and system
A system, method, service and media for managing both supplier-owned and non-owned manufacturing asset types utilizing a supplier model of a product which goes across the manufacturing asset types....
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8144167 |
Monitoring graphics processing
A graphics processing apparatus is provided with rendering circuitry which separately renders different areas of a frame of pixel values. Monitoring circuitry coupled to the rendering circuitry...
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8145337 |
Methodology to enable wafer result prediction of semiconductor wafer batch processing equipment
A method to enable wafer result prediction from a batch processing tool, includes collecting manufacturing data from a batch of wafers processed in batch in the batch processing tool, to form a...
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8146086 |
Gathering operational metrics within a grid environment using ghost agents
A method for gathering operational metrics can include the step of identifying a host within a grid environment, wherein the host can be a software object. A ghost agent can be associated with the...
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8145338 |
Systems and methods for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line
The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback...
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8145335 |
Exception handling
A system that re-plans jobs based at least in part on user preferences in response to system component errors includes an exception handler that receives an exception from one of a plurality of...
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8135485 |
Offset correction techniques for positioning substrates within a processing chamber
A method for aligning a substrate to a process center of a support mechanism is provided. The method includes determining substrate thickness after substrate processing at a plurality of...
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8131387 |
Integrated high-efficiency microwave sourcing control process
A technique for controlling instrumentation in an automatic test system includes providing a group of hardware resources that can be configured in a variety of ways to realize different instrument...
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8131285 |
Transmission/reception channel matching apparatus for mobile communication terminal and mobile phone test equipment
Disclosed herein is a transmission/reception channel matching apparatus for a mobile communication terminal and a mobile phone test equipment. The transmission/reception channel matching apparatus...
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8126574 |
System and method for dynamic multi-objective optimization of machine selection, integration and utilization
The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance...
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8126588 |
Method and system for controlling transport sequencing in a process tool by a look-ahead mode
By providing a look-ahead functionality for a tool internal substrate handling system of process tools on the basis of a process history, the tool internal substrate sequencing may be significantly...
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8126581 |
Improving design manufacturing, and transportation in mass manufacturing through analysis of defect data
A system for optimizing at least one of a design, production, or testing process of a product in a mass manufacturing process includes: a central processing unit; a network interface operatively...
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8121716 |
System and method for managing software applications, particularly manufacturing execution system (MES) applications
Software applications (A1-A6), especially MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) applications often exist in a heterogeneous form. The inventive system and method enable a user at a work station...
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8121729 |
Remote diagnostic system for robots
A remote diagnostic system for robots including a number of at least two robots, wherein a controller of each robot of the system is locally connected to a service unit provided with local...
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8117505 |
Resource exhaustion prediction, detection, diagnosis and correction
Resource exhaustion is anticipated, a cause of the resource exhaustion is identified and options are identified to address the resource exhaustion.
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8111384 |
Method for measuring thermo-optically induced material phase-change response in a multiple layer thin film structure using visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy
A method and device for facilitating measurement of thermo-optically induced material phase change response in a thin planar or a grating film stack is disclosed. The method may include using...
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8112170 |
Method and system for machining process control
A method and system for controlling machining processes are provided. The system includes a computer system communicatively coupled to a database. The computer system is configured to receive data...
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8112169 |
Polishing apparatus and polishing method
A polishing apparatus has a polishing table having a polishing surface and a top ring for pressing a substrate against the polishing surface while independently controlling pressing forces applied...
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8108060 |
System and method for implementing a wafer acceptance test (“WAT”) advanced process control (“APC”) with novel sampling policy and architecture
System and method for implementing wafer acceptance test (“WAT”) advanced process control (“APC”) are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing a key process on a sample number ...
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8108790 |
Apparatus and method for visualization of control techniques in a process control system
Various graphical displays used for visualization of control techniques in a process control system can be provided to an operator. For example, a graphical display could include (i) an image...
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8095230 |
Method for optimizing the routing of wafers/lots based on yield
A method for increasing overall yield in semiconductor manufacturing including routing wafers or wafer lots based on process variation data obtained from the wafers or wafer lots and on process...
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8090463 |
Operating method for an evaluation device for a production machine
During the production of a product by means of a production machine, an evaluation device receives actual states of components of the production machine, detected by sensors at detection times,...
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8090676 |
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...
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8086338 |
Component mounting apparatus, service providing device and servicing method
A service providing method for monitoring a mounting tact of a component mounting apparatus includes collecting, from the service receiver, mounting tact information including a mounting tact...
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8078919 |
Method, apparatus and program storage device for managing multiple step processes triggered by a signal
A method, apparatus and program storage device for managing multiple step processes triggered by a signal is disclosed. Status records are created for each process step. When an error occurs, error...
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8073567 |
Production system provided with a production control apparatus
A production control apparatus of a production system provided with a storing means for storing in advance a production system model comprised of workpiece information regarding workpieces and...
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8068922 |
Method for operating a block model based field device for a distributed automation system
In a method for operating a field device working according to the block model for a distributed automation system, which exchanges data via a fieldbus, a first function block application serving...
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8068104 |
Totally integrated intelligent dynamic systems display
An apparatus for graphically displaying analytical data, comprising a generic model to graphically represent a complex set of physical characteristics potentially leading to catastrophic failure of...
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8060232 |
Potted insert installation and validation
Methods and computer storage media provide for the installation of potted inserts and installation validation. According to embodiments described herein, an insert is placed within an insert...
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8055371 |
Services portal
An apparatus for monitoring performance of an industrial process includes a service portal for collecting, transmitting and analyzing parameter data from process field devices that includes a...
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8055391 |
Server device and program
A server device constituting a group management system includes one or more manufacturing apparatuses for performing a preset process on a target substrate, and the server device includes a...
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8055365 |
Method for configuring gas supply for electronics fabrication facilities
A system for supplying a reagent to multiple tools in an electronics fabrication facility is configured using a demand probability distribution. In specific examples the reagent is a...
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8055370 |
Apparatus and methods for monitoring health of semiconductor process systems
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for monitoring an operation parameter of a process tool, independently of a process system recipe, are provided. In general, an indirect effect that results from...
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8056022 |
Analysis optimizer
A method of preparing a set of target layout data for the application of a photolithographic friendly design (LFD) analysis or other photolithographic analysis. The target layout data is revised to...
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8041443 |
Surface defect data display and management system and a method of displaying and managing a surface defect data
A surface defect data display and management system comprises a risk score calculation unit for calculating the magnitude of an influence a surface defect on a wafer detected by a wafer inspection...
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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....
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8041526 |
Method, apparatus and system for reducing waste in production systems
A production system includes at least one production component having a production cycle which is interruptible by a detected production failure, at least one detector configured to monitor an...
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8032244 |
Method and system for concrete quality control based on the concrete's maturity
A method and system for controlling and monitoring the quality of concrete based on the concrete's maturity (which is a function of its time-temperature profile, or temperature history). Five...
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8032431 |
System and method for managing the development and manufacturing of a pharmaceutical
A system and method for managing the development and manufacturing process of a pharmaceutical is disclosed. The method comprises capturing and recording the development and manufacturing history...
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8032248 |
Method for finding the correlation between the tool PM and the product yield
A method for finding the correlation between tool PM (prevention maintenance) and the product yield of the tool is disclosed. The method uses a moving average method to magnify a curve trend that...
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8028049 |
Apparatus and method for web-based tool management
A method and apparatus for web-based tool management are implemented. A tool object model provides a logical representation of the physical tool. The tool object model defines a hierarchical set of...
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8024053 |
Safety instrumentation system and plant safety system
An instruction converting unit converts the data form of an instruction of an operation received by a receiving unit to the data form of a safety instrumentation system from the data form of a...
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8024676 |
Multi-pitch scatterometry targets
The invention can provide a method of processing a substrate using multi-pitch scatterometry targets (M-PSTs) for de-convolving lithographic process parameters during Single-Patterning (S-P),...
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