Patent ID: 6853870
Filing Date: 2005-02-08
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A semiconductor processing process control system for controlling a plurality of processes for semiconductor processing, comprising: a skip judgment request receiving section which receives a request for judgment whether a process can be skipped or not; a plurality of judgment plug-in each having a step skip judgment logic for judging whether a certain process can be skipped or not; a skip judgment yes/no section for searching out a judgment plug-in corresponding to a process to be judged, which is received by the skip judgment request receiving section, from the plurality of judgment plug-in; a judgment execute section which activates the judgment plug-in searched out by the skip judgment yes/no section and makes the judgment plug-in judge whether the one process can be skipped or not, on the basis of the step skip judgment logic; a judgment result receiving section which receives from the activated judgment plug-in a result of judgment whether the one process can be skipped or not; and a skip execute section which effects skipping of the one process when the result of judgment indicates that the process can be skipped.