Patent ID: 6925343

Claim:
A flow conversion system for a manufacturing process, comprising: a flow decomposition module configured to decompose a process described in a conversion target process flow into lower processes based on a process decomposition table so as to create an intermediate lower process flow with the lower processes; a compatible flow generation module configured to replace the lower processes with lower compatible processes based on a lower process compatibility table describing the lower compatible processes for production facilities equivalent to the lower processes so as to create an intermediate lower compatible process flow with the lower compatible processes; a flow check module configured to create a lower process flow which includes all the lower processes available in the production facilities from the intermediate lower process flow and the intermediate lower compatible process flow based on an available process table; a flow selection module configured to select the lower process flow by calculating an attribute based on an attribute definition table defining the attribute of the lower process flow; and an external storage unit configured to store the process decomposition table, the lower process compatibility table, the available process table, and the attribute definition table.