Patent ID: 8571703
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A control device for a processing system, the processing system including a plurality of processing chambers in which a predetermined process is performed on an object to be processed, a storage port that stores objects to be processed, a transfer mechanism that transfers each object to be processed to a predetermined transfer destination between the plurality of processing chambers and the storage port, and pre-processing chambers that connect each of the processing chambers and the transfer mechanism, the control device comprising: a transfer destination determining portion that determines a transfer destination for each object to be processed that is stored in the storage port after a preceding object is removed from the storage port; a transfer destination change portion that, after transfer of one of the objects to be processed that is stored in the storage port to one of the plurality of processing chambers is inhibited, in accordance with a timing at which the inhibition of the transfer to the processing chamber is released, changes the transfer destination of one of the objects to be processed whose transfer destination has already been determined by the transfer destination determining portion and that is next to be transferred from the storage port among the objects to be processed, to the processing chamber that is released from the transfer inhibition; and an evacuation portion that evacuates, to the storage port, one of the objects to be processed that has been determined to be transferred to the processing chamber to which the transfer is inhibited and that has not yet been transferred to the processing chamber to which the transfer is inhibited, wherein the evacuation portion determines whether or not the object to be processed has been transferred based on whether the object to be processed has been transferred to a pre-processing chamber of the processing chamber to which the transfer is inhibited.