Patent ID: 7251541

Claim:
A substrate-related-operation performing system, comprising: a plurality of substrate-related-operation performing apparatuses which are arranged along a line and which sequentially perform respective operations related to a circuit substrate, wherein the substrate-related-operation performing apparatuses comprise a judgment-object operation performing apparatus; and a program judging device which judges whether an operation performing program which is implemented by the judgment-object operation performing apparatus is appropriate, wherein the program judging device comprises a reference-information obtaining portion which obtains at least one batch of reference information which is related to at least one of the substrate-related-operation performing apparatuses and which is referred to in making a judgment about the operation performing program, and a judging portion which judges, based on the obtained batch of reference information, whether the operation performing program which is implemented by the judgment-object operation performing apparatus is appropriate, wherein the operation performing program comprises a next operation performing program corresponding to a next circuit substrate to which a next operation to be next performed by the judgment-object operation performing apparatus is related, wherein the judgment-object operation performing apparatus is to implement the next operation performing program and thereby perform the next operation related to the next circuit substrate, and wherein the judging portion judges whether the next operation performing program to be implemented by the judgment-object operation performing apparatus is appropriate, wherein the reference-information obtaining portion obtains said at least one batch of reference information comprising at least one batch of operation-performed-substrate-related information which is related to at least one circuit substrate to which at least one operation which is being performed by said at least one substrate-related-operation performing apparatus is related, and wherein the judging portion comprises a next-circuit-substrate recognizing portion which recognizes, based on said at least one batch of operation-performed-substrate-related information, said at least one circuit substrate as the next circuit substrate; and a next-circuit-substrate-dependent judging portion which judges whether the next operation performing program to be implemented by the judgment-object operation performing apparatus is appropriate for the next circuit substrate recognized by the next-circuit-substrate recognizing portion.