Patent ID: 8326559

Claim:
A substrate processing system, comprising a plurality of modules for substrate processing including, at least a coating module which applies a resist solution to a surface of a substrate to be processed, a heating module which heats a substrate to be processed coated with the resist solution, and a developing module which develops a substrate with an exposed pattern circuit; said substrate processing system further comprising: an inspection substrate, which is transferred to the plurality of modules for inspection therein, provided with a plurality of measuring devices which carry out a plurality of different kinds of measurements and a recorder which records measured data provided by the measuring devices; and a controller that executes control operations to subject the inspection substrate to predetermined processes in the plurality of modules; wherein the plurality of measuring devices comprise at least two of a first measurement device which measures the levelness of the inspection substrate, a second measurement device which measures the temperature of the surface of the inspection substrate, a third measurement device which measures air velocity relative to the surface of the inspection substrate, a fourth measurement device which measures the atmospheric pressure on the surface of the inspection substrate, and a fifth measurement device which measures humidity in the vicinity of the surface of the inspection substrate, and the controller obtains through data communication a plurality of different kinds of measured data recorded by the recorder of the inspection substrate as the inspection substrate is processed by the predetermined processes by the plurality of modules.