Manufacturing management using tool operating data

US8634949B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Brian C. Barker · Poughkeepsie, US
• Edward P. Higgins · Ripton, US
• Richard L. Kleinhenz · Wappingers Falls, US
• Gary R. Moore · Tecumseh, US
• Mark L. Reath · Red Hook, US
• Justin W. Wong · South Burlington, US
• Horst Zisgen · Heidesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 2010
• Grant date: Jan 21, 2014
• Expiry date: Apr 7, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/30
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A solution for managing a manufacturing environment using operating data for each of a plurality of tools in the manufacturing environment. The operating data can include actual resource consumption data and/or actual exhaust generation data for a tool while the tool implements at least a portion of a recipe to manufacture one of a plurality of types of products manufactured in the manufacturing environment. Operation of the manufacturing environment can be configured to optimize one or more aspects of resource consumption and/or exhaust generation during the manufacture of desired quantities of the plurality of types of products within a desired time frame using the operating data.