Patent ID: 8055378

Claim:
A control device for a processing system, wherein the processing system includes 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, and 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, wherein the control device comprises: a transfer destination determining portion that determines a first transfer destination of each object to be processed that is stored in the storage port such that each object to be processed is sequentially transferred to a processing chamber that is operating normally among the plurality of processing chambers; an evacuation portion that, when transfer of an object to be processed to one of the plurality of processing chambers is inhibited, temporarily evacuates the object 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; and a transfer inhibition portion that, when the transfer destination determining portion determines a second transfer destination for the evacuated object to be processed, and upon determination that a process that is performed immediately before processing the evacuated object to be processed in the second transfer destination satisfies a predetermined condition, inhibits the transfer of the evacuated object to be processed to the second transfer destination, wherein, the predetermined condition to inhibit the transfer of the evacuated object to be processed includes a case when the inside of the processing chamber that is the first transfer destination has not been adjusted to a stable condition by the process performed immediately before processing the evacuated object to be processed, and wherein, the predetermined condition to inhibit the transfer of the evacuated object to be processed includes a case when the process immediately before processing the evacuated object to be processed is not a cleaning process when the inside of the processing chamber that is the first transfer destination should be cleaned.