Patent ID: 7373211

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a model mathematically representing a plurality of resources and a plurality of tasks associated with a process system, the model also defining relationships involving the resources and the tasks; a resource allocation controller capable of using the model to allocate one or more of the resources among one or more of the tasks based on one or more measurable characteristics associated with the process system, the allocation of the one or more resources among the one or more tasks supporting execution of at least one process plan; and a compliance-monitoring viewer capable of displaying process system information to a user, the process system information identifying real-time actual compliance to the at least one process plan during execution of the at least one process plan; wherein tasks that have been performed as part of the execution of the at least one process plan comprise diffusion plans associated with a semiconductor facility, wherein at least some diffusion plans are defined and then performed, and wherein a time period exists between the definition of at least one diffusion plan and the performance of that diffusion plan; and wherein the compliance-monitoring viewer is configured to provide a bar graph to present at least a portion of the process system information to the user, the bar graph comprising a plurality of bars, at least one of the bars subdivided into multiple sections, the sections associated with different lengths of the time periods between the definitions of the diffusion plans and the performance of the diffusion plans.