Patent ID: 7308329
Filing Date: 2007-12-11
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A substrate inspection apparatus comprising: a recipe preparation unit that: (i) obtains a plurality of original recipes which correspond to plural substrate types respectively, the plurality of original recipes corresponding to a plurality of original process units respectively, and (ii) allocates parts of the plurality of original recipes to a group of slots and prepares an actual recipe based on the plurality of original recipes, wherein the group of slots belong to an actual process unit different from the original process units, the group of slots contain substrates of the plural substrate types, at least one of the plural substrate types comprises plural substrates, and the plural substrate types of the plurality of original recipes correspond to the plural substrate types of the substrates contained in the group of slots; and a substrate inspection unit that inspects substrates belonging to the actual process unit with reference to the actual recipe.