Patent ID: 7203565

Claim:
A method for detecting temperature abnormality in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus that includes at least: a hot plate of which obverse side an article to be processed is placed on and which heats the thus placed article to be processed; a temperature control section which controls temperature of the hot plate and obtains the temperature; a main body control section which performs control on an entirety of the apparatus based on a process recipe; and an elevating mechanism which moves vertically the article to be processed above the hot plate, the method comprising: a storing step of storing temperature data of the hot plate obtained by the temperature control section into a storage section of the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus; an elevation control step of controlling the elevating mechanism and sending elevation timing data for the article to be processed to the storage section; a management range calculation step of calculating a management range corresponding to parameter behavior in a transient gradient state based on the temperature data stored in the storage section, process recipe data obtained from the main body control section, and the elevation timing data sent to the storage section; and a step of detecting temperature abnormality in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus with the use of the management range calculated in the management range calculation step.