Patent ID: 8438655

Claim:
A substrate processing system comprising: a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses configured to perform processing of a substrate; a communication line; and a management device connected to the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses via the communication line, wherein the management device has a display section having a screen used for setting operation authority information indicative of what operation right is set to each user to each of the management device and the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses capable of communicating with the management device, and the screen has a function input section for setting each of the functions of the management device and the substrate processing apparatus, a first authority input section for setting an operation right of the management device corresponding to each of the functions, and a second authority input section for setting an operation right of the substrate processing apparatus corresponding to each of the functions, wherein an operation authority information of a user on an operation device in a predetermined substrate processing apparatus among the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses is changed and the changed operation authority information is transmitted, the management device judges whether or not there is a difference between the transmitted operation authority information and the operation authority information of another substrate processing apparatus set for the user; such that if there is no difference between the transmitted operation authority information and the operation authority information of another substrate processing apparatus set for the user, the management device waits for the operation authority information to be transmitted, if there is a difference between the transmitted operation authority information and the operation authority information of another substrate processing apparatus set for the user, the management device makes an operation device of the predetermined substrate processing apparatus display a warning; the predetermined substrate processing apparatus, if the warning is canceled, transmits the operation authority information including the information of the result of the judgment whether or not being reflected to the another substrate processing apparatus, and the management device stores the operation authority information relating to the user transmitted from the predetermined substrate processing apparatus and transmits the operation authority information to the another substrate processing apparatus according to the result of the judgment.