Computer integrated manufacturing techniques

• Main Authors: HUANG CHARLES, JENSEN JETT, KULKARNI PRAKASH M, CHOW BILLY, D'SOUZA PATRICK M, KRISHNAMURTHY BADRI N, LIN WEN FONG, YUAN HUEY-SHIN, ARACKAPARAMBIL JOHN F, MOHAN SHANTHA, HAWKINS PARRIS, KULKARNI PRADEEP M, CHI TOM, NANDY BISHNU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.06.2006
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

The present invention provides a novel distributed factory system framework including a novel factory automation lifecycle ( 200 ) having lifecycle activities for SW developing and integrating ( 210 ), installing and administrating ( 220 ), factory modeling ( 230 ), manufacturing planning ( 240 ), manufacturing controlling, monitoring and tracking ( 250 ) and analyzing of manufacturing results ( 260 ). The factory lifecycle comprises framework components. The distributed factory system framework also includes application components and software building blocks. The framework components are adapted for managing the application components, while the application components are utilized to provide instructions for managing a process such as a wafer fab. The building blocks are adapted for forming or modifying framework and application components. The distributed factory system framework provides computer implemented methods for integrating processing systems and facilitates process and equipment changes.