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US6256550B1
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Overall equipment effectiveness on-line categories system and method
Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co TSMC Ltd
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Filing: 1998-08-07
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Granted: 2001-07-03
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Expires: 2018-08-07
Abstract
Abstract A manufacturing control and reporting method/system for manufacture of semiconductor devices comprises a system for loading a mechanical article handling device in a semiconductor manufacturing system, provides an automatic check-in and changing equipment status to an UP status, automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, and for automatically changing the system status to an IDLE status. The system provides automatic check-in, and subsequent to processing of the workload by the plant provides track-out followed by automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty. Then the system checking whether a TE has arrived, and the system checks whether the TE has reloaded the article handling system.
Inventors
- 👤 Wen Feng Wu
- 👤 Ming-Hsiu Hsieh
- 👤 Pai-Lan Chen
- 👤 Ching-Ren Chen
- 👤 Hui-Ping Liu
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-05 17:16
CPC Classifications
G; G05; G05B; G05B19/00; G05B19/02; G05B19/418; G06; G06Q; G06Q10/00; G06Q10/06; G06Q10/063; G06Q10/0633; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P90/00; Y02P90/02; Y02P90/80
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
118 words
Apparatus comprising a manufacturing control and reporting system for manufacturing of semiconductor devices comprising: a system for loading a mechanical article handling device in the semiconductor manufacturing system, means for providing an automatic check-in and means for changing equipment status to an UP status, means for automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, means for automatically changing the system status to an IDLE status, said apparatus providing automatic check-in, and said apparatus providing track-out subsequent to processing of the workload by a plant followed by automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, then said system checking whether a TE has arrived, and said system checking whether the TE has reloaded the article handling system.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
118 words
Apparatus comprising a manufacturing control and reporting system for manufacturing of semiconductor devices comprising: a system for loading a mechanical article handling device in the semiconductor manufacturing system, means for providing an automatic check-in and means for changing equipment status to an UP status, means for automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, means for automatically changing the system status to an IDLE status, said apparatus providing automatic check-in, and said apparatus providing track-out subsequent to processing of the workload by a plant followed by automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, then said system checking whether a TE has arrived, and said system checking whether the TE has reloaded the article handling system.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
105 words
Apparatus comprising a manufacturing control and reporting system for manufacturing of semiconductor devices comprising: loading a mechanical article handling device in a semiconductor manufacturing system, then providing an automatic check-in and changing equipment status to an UP status, then automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, and then automatically changing the system status to an IDLE status, said apparatus provides automatic check-in, providing track-out subsequent to processing of the workload by a plant followed by automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, then checking whether a TE has arrived, and then checking whether the TE has reloaded the article handling system.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
105 words
Apparatus comprising a manufacturing control and reporting system for manufacturing of semiconductor devices comprising: loading a mechanical article handling device in a semiconductor manufacturing system, then providing an automatic check-in and changing equipment status to an UP status, then automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, and then automatically changing the system status to an IDLE status, said apparatus provides automatic check-in, providing track-out subsequent to processing of the workload by a plant followed by automatically checking whether the article handling system is empty, then checking whether a TE has arrived, and then checking whether the TE has reloaded the article handling system.
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