Patent ID: 8312333

Claim:
A data processing method for a substrate processing apparatus comprising: a group administration apparatus for administering a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses for processing substrates; and a plurality of operation terminals each for, when connected to said group administration apparatus, generating a data acquisition request format that sets forth retrieval conditions and types of display items classified in individual tables for said substrate processing apparatuses, and then transmitting the data acquisition request format to said group administration apparatus, the method comprising: accumulating data from a substrate processing apparatus in a data accumulation area; at a time of data acquisition request from said plurality of operation terminals, expanding the data acquisition request format for said plurality of substrate processing apparatuses; merging display items to be retrieved with a same retrieval condition which is included in retrieval conditions set forth in the expanded data acquisition request formats to generate a merge table for substrate processing apparatuses; and retrieving the data accumulation area by the retrieval condition using merge tables to transmit retrieved results to the operation terminal.