Patent ID: 8806370
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing apparatus which, executing a compiled or edited recipe, processes a substrate, the apparatus comprising: a display device which displays an editing screen for compiling or editing the recipe by setting at least one control parameter among control parameters containing a pressure and a processing gas flow; and a controller that has at least a recipe storage portion for storing the recipe, a parameter storage portion for storing the control parameters, and an operation control portion, wherein the operation control portion carries out the following processes, when a time set in advance elapses without an operation being carried out on the editing screen displayed by the display device in an event of setting at least the control parameter, compiling or editing the recipe: (1) a process that switches from the editing screen to a prescribed screen which differs from the editing screen, (2) a process that deletes the recipe partway through the editing that is compiled or edited by the operation by the time set in advance, and saves the control parameter that is set by the time set in advance, while returning to an original recipe before the compiling or the editing, when a save and finish button displayed on the editing screen is pressed by the time set in advance, (3) a process that switches to the prescribed screen, and (4) a process that saves the recipe partway through the editing, wherein the controller, as well as switching from the editing screen to the prescribed screen, carries out a logging out process, and the controller switches from the editing screen to an initial screen that includes designation devices for carrying out a change of an operating authority and a logging in process.