Patent ID: 7815558
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: H01L,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a program for execution on a computer to perform a process instrument replacement in a processing apparatus, in which target objects are loaded by a transfer mechanism into processing units and are processed therein, wherein the program causes the computer to execute: confirming that a process on the target object is finished in a designated one of the processing units designated to replace a process instrument attached therein, and providing information that a process instrument replacing operation is permitted to start; and, when the designated processing unit is set in a maintenance preparatory state to perform the process instrument replacing operation and an operation prohibition state is thereby applied to the transfer mechanism, canceling the operation prohibition state to allow the transfer mechanism to perform a load or unload operation of a target object relative to a processing unit not designated to replace a process instrument attached therein.