Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and command setting method
US6142660A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 6, 1997 |
| Grant date | Nov 7, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P90/80
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A semiconductor manufacturing method and apparatus using a plurality of maintenance commands for automatically measuring errors caused by the apparatus or caused by a wafer treatment process, by using measuring functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a display device for displaying a list of the plurality of maintenance commands, a console-side control device for enabling an operator to select some of the plurality of maintenance commands displayed by the display device, to generate a maintenance menu in which some of the plurality of maintenance commands are combined as desired by the operator and to edit the maintenance menu, a storage device for storing the maintenance menu generated and edited using the console-side control device and an apparatus-side control device for successively executing the maintenance commands in the maintenance menu stored in the storage device when the apparatus-side control device receives an instruction to execute the maintenance menu.
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