Patent ID: 6968245

Claim:
A recipe cluster management system comprising: a material execute system having a recipe cluster management engine in operative communication with the material execute system; a specification database in operative communication with the material execute system for storing predefined recipe clusters, wherein each recipe cluster has at least one associated recipe parameter and a specified location; a run time floor database, the run time floor database in operative communication with a real time dispatching system for sequencing processing of orders according to a predefined schedule, wherein the real time dispatching system is in further operative communication with the material execute system; at least one piece of fabrication equipment, wherein the at least one piece of fabrication equipment is in operative communication with the material execute system and wherein the at least one piece of fabrication equipment has an operator interface that allows an operator to monitor only candidate lots provided to the at least one piece of fabrication equipment by the RTD system, and to track the candidate lots into the at least one piece of fabrication equipment according to a predefined schedule; and an associated graphical user interface for assigning recipe clusters to associated chambers within the at least one piece of fabrication equipment wherein said associated graphical user interface comprises: an equipment setup menu for assigning the recipe clusters to the associated chambers within the piece of fabrication equipment, a select chamber menu for associating recipe clusters with a chamber disposed within the at least one piece of fabrication equipment, a candidate recipe cluster menu for displaying and selecting candidate recipe clusters, and a recipe list menu for displaying a recipe list associated with a candidate recipe cluster.