Patent ID: 6618692
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: G05B,H01L

Abstract:
A remote diagnostic system for semiconductor manufacturing equipment which diagnoses a user's semiconductor manufacturing equipment connected together with a terminal to a piece of diagnostic equipment which is provided by a third party through a communication network;wherein the diagnostic equipment includes at least one diagnostic program which diagnoses the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and a control section which starts at least one diagnostic program of the at least one diagnostic program when accessed by a specific user terminal given an access right; wherein a specific user terminal having an access right to use the diagnostic equipment given by a specific third party for a charge sends data which is requested by the diagnostic equipment for diagnosis and receives a result of diagnosis from the diagnostic equipment; and wherein the diagnostic equipment diagnoses the status of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment by determining standard operating conditions of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, creating at least one database under the standard operating conditions, running the semiconductor manufacturing equipment under the standard operating conditions to obtain operating data, loading the diagnostic equipment with the operating data automatically or in response to an input from the specific user terminal, and comparing the operating data with contents of at least one database of the at least one database.