Patent ID: 7489980

Claim:
A method of implementing an advanced process control (APC) operation mode for at least one of a factory level advanced processing control (FL-APC) system, and at least one tool level advanced processing control (TL-APC) system, the method comprising: receiving a request from a manufacturing execution system (MES) for at least one APC system, the request including the APC operation mode and required data to perform a recipe parameter adjustment (RPA) for the at least one APC system; determining a status of the at least one APC system requested, wherein the status determining includes determining whether the at least one APC system is on and current settings of the at least one APC system; determining whether the at least one APC system has necessary data to perform the RPA; transmitting the required data to the at least one APC system; evaluating the required data to determine whether the required data is in a language usable by the at least one APC system, and translating the required data in the case that the required data is not in the language usable by the at least one APC system; evaluating the required data to determine whether the required data includes the necessary data to perform the RPA; tracking a data exchange between the at least one APC system and the MES; and managing an exception from the at least one APC system.