Patent ID: 6909996

Claim:
An online material consumption monitoring system for monitoring material within a wafer fabrication facility, the online material consumption monitoring system having: a) a computer having (i) a controlling processor capable of processing material consumption data, (ii) a graphical user interface having a build of material (“BOM”) display, (iii) a browser used to access the graphical user interface and (iv) an associated memory means for storing the browser; b) a material warehouse having an automated tracking system for tracking each move of a pre-defined amount of at least one representative material from the material warehouse to a piece of fabrication equipment disposed within a wafer fabrication facility, the automated tracking system in operable communication with the controlling processor, wherein the at least one representative material is selected from the group consisting of an indirect material consumed in the indirect processing of an associated product but not consumed within the associated product and a direct material directly consumed within an associated product; c) a manufacturing execution system (“MES”) for controlling execution of each of a plurality of recipes used to make an associated product, wherein the MES is in operable communication with at least one of the material warehouse automated tracking system and the controlling processor; and d) a capacity consumption system (“CCS”)for determining future processing capacity of each piece of fabrication equipment disposed within a wafer fabrication facility, the CCS capable of generating a master production schedule (“MPS”) associated with at least one of a current, a standard, and a future scheduled recipe move; wherein the controlling processor operates to acquire material move data from the material warehouse and to acquire a recipe usage number associated with the pre-defined amount of at least one representative material from at least one of the MES and the CCS to calculate total material consumption of representative material within a wafer fabrication facility.