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7177713 Method and system for optimizing manufacture of parts  
The present invention discloses a method and system comprised of a combination of submethods and subsystems relating to the manufacture of parts. By these submethods and subsystems, the present...
7164959 Method and system of classifying demand data  
A method of classifying demand for an allocation term. The inventive method first inputs demand data, order data, and supply data. The method then classifies the demand data into prioritized demand...
7158846 System for providing product environment information  
An environmental information system arranged to effectively provide environmental information. The information system has a product constitution information storage section for storing product...
7151972 Method for autonomic control of a manufacturing system  
Disclosed is a method of controlling a manufacturing system. The invention automatically monitors current levels of partially completed products waiting to be processed by a tool (or group of...
7142937 Capacity management in a wafer fabrication plant  
In a wafer fabrication plant, the capacity management process 10 begins with identifying an initial capacity plan based on a demand plan (step 12 ). For each Product Group in the initial...
7139628 System and method for fabrication backup control  
A backup control system within a fabrication system is provided. The fabrication system contains a plurality of separately located fabrication facilities, each of which contains a computer assisted...
7139719 System for scheduling product planning  
A product development scheduler uses a distributed, constraint based system for modeling allocation of resources. All resources for all active development projects are provided at a central...
7139631 Method and system to compensate for scanner system timing variability in a semiconductor wafer fabrication system  
A semiconductor wafer fabrication system that includes at least a track system and a scanner system compensates for deviations from nominal periodicity in the scanner system by dynamically...
7139630 Allocating manufactured devices according to customer specifications  
A method and system sorts manufactured integrated circuit devices by evaluating performance characteristics of the manufactured integrated circuit devices. All of the integrated circuit devices are...
7136715 Working-system for single path and control method thereof  
A working-system for a single path having a plurality of equipment set along the single path and a plurality of working-objects performing predetermined jobs on the plurality of the equipment while...
7130769 Method of dynamically designing a preventative maintenance schedule based upon sensor data, and system for accomplishing same  
In one example, the method includes operating a process tool that has a plurality of sensors for sensing at least one parameter associated with the operation of the process tool, obtaining data...
7127307 Generation/management apparatus of production processing structure in factory production management system  
In an apparatus for generating and managing production processing structure in a production management system of a factory, the structure of factory made up of the names or other identifiers of...
7127311 Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method  
An exposure apparatus having a plurality of units includes a scheduling unit which schedules a process step with respect to each lot, a combining unit which combines process steps of first and...
7125179 System and method of evaluating print shop consolidation options in an enterprise  
A system and method of evaluating the required operating capacities for each production function for each consolidation configuration of distributed print shops in an enterprise so that the most...
7123975 Manufacturing management system and method  
A manufacturing management system and method for cross-site lot handling is provided. The system includes a management unit and a target manufacturing site. The target manufacturing site receives a...
7123976 Capacity management system and method  
A capacity management system and method. The system includes a demand management module and a planning engine. The demand management module receives a demand comprising a request for a quantity of...
7110841 Multi-level shipping instructions in manufacturing systems  
A system for utilizing multi-level shipping instructions in a manufacturing system includes multiple elements. A first element can receive an order and generate an electronic, text-based file that...
7096082 Design control document linking template  
A control document template streamlines the creation of control documents and facilitates consistent entry of data. A multi-page spreadsheet file incorporates the design and process failure mode...
7092776 Production control system, production control method and production control program  
A production control system for producing products from parts, the production control system, comprising: a product data obtaining module configured to obtain product data including an effective...
7089070 Method and arrangement for a system for manufacturing dental products  
A manufacturing system for dental products (P, P′) operates with coordinating units ( 9 ) which receive and register orders from customers ( 1, 2 and 3 ). The coordinating units distribute the...
7089077 Monitor wafer purchase and controls database  
Controlling stocker capacity in an automated facility and controlling monitor budgets by capped releases, capped FOUP supplies, and wafer reuse methodology. A Database is used to order, track, and...
7085704 Time-indexed multiplexing as an efficient method of scheduling in hardware  
Methods and apparatus for hardware scheduling processes handling are presented. The apparatus includes a table of task lists. Each task list has specifications of processes requiring handling...
7069096 Global resource locator for autonomous cooperative control systems  
A distributed control system employs a number of autonomous cooperative units that intercommunicate with bids and counter bids to allocate the production of a product among them. Network traffic...
7064848 System and method for converting print jobs stored in printshop job description language files into printshop workflow  
A method for automatically converting print jobs stored in printshop job description language (PSDL) files into workflow for a specific printshop is disclosed. A print job stored in a PSDL file is...
7065419 Job flow Petri Net and controlling mechanism for parallel processing  
The present disclosure provides a job flow system for use in a manufacturing environment, such as a semiconductor fab. The job flow system includes a plurality of sequence-related jobs associated...
7065421 Manufacturing management system and method  
A manufacturing management system and method. The system includes a monitor module and a planning module. The monitor module receives real-time yield information of one product currently being...
7054699 Process management system and production management system  
A process management system has a plurality of processes, each process producing a group of products from at least one kind of parts by applying a predetermined operation thereto. A plurality of...
7054703 Control system and methods for managing a production operating under time constaraints  
A control system for a production process having a plurality of operations. A plurality of time constraints exist between the operations. The control system includes a control module that defines a...
7054702 Lot start agent that determines delta virtual WIP time for each bottleneck station in a multi-product and multi-bottleneck manufacturing environment  
A system and method are provided for calculating a plurality of bottleneck delta virtual work in process time (“VWIP”) values. Each of the bottleneck delta VWIP values represents the time until...
7050873 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...
7047091 Method for determining a graphic presentation for visualizing progress of a project  
In a method for determining a graphic presentation progress that work groups in a set of work groups have made for realizing sub-projects of a project for which they are respectively responsible...
7043444 Synchronization of planning information in a high availability planning and scheduling architecture  
A method for synchronizing planning information in a high availability planning and scheduling architecture includes processing requests from one or more external systems ( 40 ) using an advanced...
7043319 System and method for visualizing the use of resources in a process system  
A resource allocator allocates a plurality of resources among a plurality of tasks within a process system. The resource allocator includes a monitoring controller for monitoring one or more...
7043318 Lot start agent that determines quantity and timing for lot starts  
An automated system is provided in a facility that manufactures m products, where m>0. The system comprises a software object that provides for calculation of one or more bottleneck delta...
7043317 Semiconductor wafer fabrication furnace idle monitor and method of operation  
A system and method is disclosed for monitoring each of a plurality of furnaces in a furnace process in semiconductor wafer fabrication. A furnace that is left open too long will absorb moisture...
7043309 Distributed actuation allocation for large assemblies of implementation units  
Apparatus and methods that approximately solve an actuation allocation problem by breaking the solution into modules, which may or may not be overlapping. The solution to the actuation allocation...
7043320 Method and apparatus for planning a manufacturing schedule using an adaptive learning process  
An apparatus and method for a production planning system using a process of adaptive learning is disclosed. A production planning system receives production objects wherein each production object...
7039480 Planning operation management support system, and planning operation management support program  
A project template information management database 1 of a planning operation management support system includes: database groups from 20 to 23 saving setting information of planning operations...
7039481 Production planning system  
The production of semiconductor devices manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing sites is unitarily managed and an appropriate production plan is instructed. A computer projects a...
7039482 Floating process flow control system to handle operation events in a full automation plant  
A method to handle operation exceptions in an automated manufacturing system is achieved. The method comprises providing an automated manufacturing system comprising a means to track progress of...
7035704 Capacity management system and method  
A capacity management system and method. A demand priority for each foundry and commodity capacity demand is determined according to sales and product information thereof. A capacity is then...
7035705 System and method for process contamination prevention for semiconductor manufacturing  
Provided are a system and method for preventing contamination in a semiconductor manufacturing environment. The method includes comparing one or more attributes associated with a product, such as a...
7031785 Method of production control and method of manufacturing electronic apparatus  
The invention relates to a method of production control that is preferably used for manufacture of electronic apparatus such as liquid crystal displays and provides a method of production control...
7031786 System and method for fabrication backup planning  
A backup planning device within a fabrication system. The backup planning device schedules backup operations between separately located fabrication facilities by introducing a virtual tool. The...
7027885 Determining batch start versus delay  
The invention is a technique by which a manufacturing process flow determines when to begin processing a batch of lots. The invention includes a method for determining whether to begin processing a...
7024371 High availability planning and scheduling architecture  
A high availability planning and scheduling system includes a number of high availability (HA) systems ( 20 ) that are coupled to one or more external systems ( 40 ) using a message bus ( 50 )....
7020534 Recycling method  
A recycling method enables closed-loop material recycling (CMR) to be smoothly performed while reducing the amount of a recovered material disposed of outside the CMR loop. The amount of use of...
7003368 Manufacturing method for a plurality of manufacturing lots  
As a basic managing pattern, each manufacturing lot containing at least one workpiece is designated as a main objective to be managed. An appropriate number of similar type manufacturing lots...
7003365 System and method of reserving capacity for a pre-process order  
In a foundry that produces a product family a system and method of reserving capacity for a pre-process order includes a plurality of products, a common pre-process operation and a plurality of...
6999829 Real time asset optimization  
A technique to optimize both the production schedule and the maintenance of plant assets based on predetermined criteria which may be economic or otherwise. In one embodiment the technique receives...
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