Patent ID: 6963789

Claim:
A substrate processing apparatus control system controlling a substrate processing apparatus comprising: a supply that provides at least one bare wafer stored in a carrier wherein each of said at least one bare wafer is constituted by a substrate with no pattern formed thereon; a processing part performing prescribed processing on said at least one bare wafer, an inspection part measuring the film thickness of resist applied to said at least one bare wafer; and an operation part receiving manipulation instructions from an operator, said processing part including a resist coating processing part coating said at least one bare wafer with said resist; and a prebake part performing thermal processing on said at least one bare wafer with said resist, said substrate processing apparatus control system comprising: a) means performing control to transport said at least one bare wafer taken out from said carrier and subjected to resist coating processing and prebaking to said inspection part, while storing said at least one bare wafer in said carrier after completion of film thickness measurement at said inspection part, said means performing control being operative when said operator manipulates said operation part to select a bare wafer film thickness measurement mode as an inspection mode; b) determination means receiving measurement results from said inspection part for determining whether or not a film thickness requirement is satisfied; and c) condition change means changing a processing condition of said processing part when said determination means determines that said film thickness requirement is not satisfied.