Patent ID: 7103444
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A system for displaying status of individual tools running in a factory, comprising: (a) a unit for receiving information via an electronic signal directly from a tool, the information including a first ID of the tool and a status information of the tool; (b) a unit for retrieving, from a storage device in accordance with the first ID, a second ID of a project under which the tool is supervised in the factory; (c) a unit for displaying an image corresponding to the project, in accordance with the received second ID of the project, in a portion of a display area; (d) a unit for retrieving, from the storage device in accordance with the first ID and the status information, indicia corresponding to the status information, wherein a number of the indicia stored in the storage device is smaller than a number of types of status information of the tools running in the factory so that at least one of the indicia is correlated to a plurality of status information; and (e) a unit for displaying, in said portion, the retrieved indicia.