Patent ID: 7930049
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling substrate processing in a substrate processing system, the system including at least one substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate, the substrate processing apparatus comprising a plurality of components; a centralized control apparatus for gathering data from each of the components, and a terminal unit for receiving control information at a site remote from the centralized control apparatus, the method comprising: gathering data by the centralized control apparatus at a predetermined interval from the substrate processing apparatus for each of the components; determining a status of each of the components by the centralized control apparatus based on the gathered data and regulation control information, the regulation control information including attribute information, maintenance information and previously established status-determined information about each of the components, at a predetermined timing established for each of the components to determine a level of the status of each of the components as a determination result; performing a thinning-out-processing of the gathered data by the centralized control apparatus based on the determination result of the status of each of the components, wherein in the performing the thinning-out-processing of the gathered data, a thinning-out ratio is determined based on the determination result, and then the thinning-out-processing is performed on the gathered data based on the thinning-out ratio; preparing processed data by the centralized control apparatus by processing data obtained by the thinning-out-processing; and sending the control information including the determination result and the processed data to the terminal unit by the centralized control apparatus.